A US radio host who previously served as an attorney for Donald Trump during his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election has said religious freedom laws should apply only to Christians in America, not to other faiths.

Speaking on her radio show Jenna Ellis in the Morning on American Family Radio, she said the Christian faith needs to be the “preferred faith”.

She added: “We don't have all of these protections for our rights that our founders recognised come from God, our creator, so that we can go out and live in a pluralistic society and say, ‘Well, let's recognise the dignity of Islam.’ That's not the point. That's not the purpose whatsoever. We have a civil government that protects the right of Christians to be able to live and work.”

Jenna Ellis described the notion that the US Constitution demands pluralism as “perverted”.

“The whole point of having a civil society that recognises the principles of religious freedom is so that we can go and evangelise, so that we can practise our faith, so that we can train up our children in the way they should go. It's so that we can preserve and protect the Christian way of life,” she said.

Ellis urged Christians to be more vocal about their faith and called for laws to be “based on truth and the biblical Christian worldview”.

“We say that in a policy context, kind of, but because the left has been so diligent… in trying to confine Christians to only uttering the Bible as authoritative within the four walls of the church, we often don't use the Bible as authoritative in the public square. And that needs to change,” she said.

In 2023, the former lawyer was one of 18 people indicted alongside Trump, and she pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting false statements and writings over efforts to overturn Georgia's election results. Telling the judge she felt “deep remorse”, she was sentenced to five years’ probation, along with $5,000 in restitution and 100 hours of community service.