'A huge victory': Christian leaders react to Supreme Court's Skrmetti ruling

3. Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush

Religious activist and ordained Baptist minister Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush of the progressive advocacy group Interfaith Alliance alleges that "Christian nationalists" are trying to "use their narrow religious worldview as an excuse to suppress the health care rights of trans kids and families."

"It's deeply wrong for the government to insert itself into medical decisions best handled by families and their doctors," Raushenbush, who identifies as gay and is married to a man, said in a statement. 

Raushenbush's organization is one of two that filed a series of Freedom of Information Act requests related to the Trump administration's Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, claiming it would be used to "persecute those, including Christians, who don't align with a particular religious agenda" and "circumvent anti-discrimination laws under the guise of protecting religious freedom."

"Interfaith Alliance and our partners are proud to mobilize Americans of diverse faiths and beliefs who know that true freedom goes hand-in-hand with the freedom of all people to control their own lives, bodies, and interests," Raushenbush asserted.

"In the face of the immoral targeting of trans youth for political gain by religious extremists, we will continue to loudly and firmly express our love for our trans neighbors."

Raushenbush, the great-grandson of former Associate Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, proclaimed: "God loves trans youth, and so do many religious communities and people of diverse faith and belief across our country."