Thread by @americansunited

Roughly 120 mil folks will watch the Super Bowl tomorrow—many just for the commercials. One ad– the $20 mil “He Gets Us” campaign about Jesus – is funded by a major donor to some of the biggest Shadow Network orgs undermining church-state separation.
levernews.com/heres-who-will…

The Servant Foundation, aka The Signatry, is behind the ad blitz. Over the next 3 years, they plans to spend “about a billion dollars” toward this campaign.

They’ve hired a PR firm to address, in the firm’s words, the problem of “How did the world’s greatest love story in Jesus become known as a hate group?”

How? Bc orgs like The Servant Foundation and the PR firm they hired FUND and SUPPORT hate groups.

Not only has the Servant Foundation funded hate groups, but the PR firm they hired, Haven, has represented them. Key Shadow Network members Focus on the Family and Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) are in their portfolio.

ADF is a noted anti-LGBTQIA hate group that has argued repeatedly in courts that religion, and specifically Christianity, is a license to discriminate; they have one such case pending before the Supreme Court right now.

But the Servant Foundation has more direct ties to ADF: It’s one of ADF’s biggest financial backers. A recent exposé reports that, “between 2018-20, the Servant Foundation donated more than $50 MILLION to the Alliance Defending Freedom."

Also funding the Super Bowl ads are the Greens, the billionaire family behind the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., and the Hobby Lobby craft store chain that got #SCOTUS to grant corporations a religious exemption to deny workers access to birth control.

This is how the Shadow Network operates – an expensive, gimmicky ad campaign that pastes a feel-good, faith-friendly face on their behind-the-scenes efforts to redefine religious freedom and gut church-state separation.

So, when you hear folks chatting about this “Jesus ad” after the Super Bowl, help us expose the Shadow Network behind the ads.
#separationofchurchandstate