Trump-appointed Supreme Court justice takes aim at JD Vance: 'For crying out loud'

Vice President JD Vance's assertion that "Christianity is America's creed" got some surprising pushback from one of the Supreme Court's most conservative jurists.

Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered a blunt dismissal of Vance's Christian crusade tied to his publicity tour to promote his new book about his conversion to Catholicism, according to a report from The Hill.

In a recent PBS interview, the President Donald Trump-appointed jurist systematically dismantled the vice president's claim that Christianity forms the ideological foundation of American governance.

Vance recently claimed, "I’m not saying you have to be a Christian to be an American. I’m saying something simpler and truer: Christianity is America’s creed, the shared moral language from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond."

Gorsuch, without mentioning the veep by name, took exception with the growing Christian nationalism Vance's remarks seem to bolster.

"And so America was not found -- I mean we have a First Amendment for crying out loud. No established religion, everybody has a freedom of religion, everybody has the freedom of speech, we are all equal under law," he told PBS host Margaret Hoover, before adding, "Now you can not believe in those ideas. Fair enough. But then we have a problem."

According to The Hill, Gorsuch observed, "...that Charles Carroll, who was also Catholic, signed the Declaration of Independence alongside members of other Christian faiths. He also explained that Amish and Quakers settled in the then-British colonies."

"We were founded, a lot of our colonies, for our religious pluralism, right? And the opportunity to practice your own faith in your own way," Gorsuch patiently explained.

"Those things are perfect ideas that speak to every human heart and that unite us all," Gorsuch elaborated for emphasis.

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