Today In Soft TotalitarianismWhat does JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon have against religious liberty? If the Regime can debank Sam Brownback, it can debank you too
Rod Dreher
Oct 14, 2022
When they came for a bipolar anti-Semitic rap superstar, I did not care, because I am not a bipolar anti-Semitic rap superstar. And then they came for those who advocate for religious liberty. Sam Brownback writes about the decision of JP Morgan Chase to close the account of the nonprofit religious liberty advocacy group he helps run:
While I was glad to hear Dimon speak proudly of America and our freedoms, I am concerned that his bank fails to live up to such lofty ideals. He referred to religious freedom as a “foundational belief,” but his bank recently decided to close the account of the National Committee for Religious Freedom, a nonpartisan, faith-based nonprofit organization dedicated to defending the right of everyone in America to live one's faith freely.
The NCRF is a diverse organization representing people from every faith and walk of life. Our bipartisan National Advisory Board includes members who are Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Latter-Day Saints, and Muslim.
After organizing the NCRF as a nonprofit group, our executive director and I opened a bank account at JPMorgan Chase & Co . We chose Chase because of its national footprint and the multigenerational banking relationships our team had with the bank. Our experience was initially very positive.
However, three weeks after opening our nonprofit business checking account, we received a letter notifying us that Chase had decided to “end their relationship” with the National Committee for Religious Freedom and that our account would be closed. The bank actually closed our account before we received the letter.
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To this day, the NCRF does not have a clear reason as to why our account was closed after only three weeks. We certainly hadn’t made any transactions in that short amount of time that would have triggered any regulatory red flags.
What shocked and surprised me the most was when someone from Chase eventually reached out to our executive director and informed him that it would be willing to reconsider doing business with the NCRF if we would provide our donor list, a list of political candidates we intended to support, and a full explanation of the criteria by which we would endorse and support those candidates. It was entirely inappropriate to ask for this type of information. Does Chase ask every customer what politicians they support and why before deciding whether or not to accept them as a customer?
Read it all.
This is truly shocking. Why would they do this? All I can figure is that they took a look at the diverse NCRF board, and saw that Family Research Council chief Tony Perkins is there. The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated Perkins as a "hate" figure, because of his orthodox Christian stance on LGBT.
They're going to ultimately debank you, you know. If not Chase, then somebody. This is how the regime works. They're going to make it more and more difficult for dissenters from wokeness to participate in society and the economy.
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Source:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/today-in-soft-totalitarianism/
