Jennifer Welch, co-host of the popular progressive podcast I’ve Had It, publicly proclaimed that “evangelical Christianity” is “a total cancer” during an IHIP News segment — a sentiment captured in the episode transcript and circulated widely online. This was not a stray tweet or a private remark; it was a hosted, produced segment from a show that has grown into a national platform.
Listeners should not be surprised that the hosts of a left-wing, profanity-laced political podcast would traffic in contempt for religious Americans, but the scale of that contempt should alarm every patriot who believes in free expression and religious liberty. Welch and her co-host have cultivated a large, engaged audience through I’ve Had It, and their slurs land with real consequences when amplified on YouTube and podcast feeds.
Let’s be absolutely clear about what this attack targets: millions of Americans who attend church, volunteer in soup kitchens, staff crisis hotlines, serve in the military, and keep family and community life together. Religious congregations and faith-based organizations remain among the largest sources of charitable giving and volunteer effort in this country, and to smear that entire civic ecosystem as a “cancer” is both ignorant and dangerous.
This episode also exposes a double standard from the coastal media class that preaches tolerance while excusing contempt for anything that brushes up against its woke catechism. The I’ve Had It duo have built influence by turning outrage into clicks and normalized vicious, dehumanizing language that treats faith as if it were a political disease rather than a protected conscience.
Conservatives should do what Americans always do when their neighbors are attacked: call it out, demand accountability, and defend the constitutional right to believe and worship without being dehumanized on national airwaves. This is not an argument to silence speech; it is an argument to refuse to accept bigotry dressed up as commentary and to hold powerful podcasters responsible for the rhetoric they put into the public square.
If we let the smear stick, the cost will be paid in civic trust and social cohesion. Stand with your churches, your charities, and your fellow citizens of faith — make your voices heard at the water cooler, at the ballot box, and wherever advertisers and platforms reward venom with audience. America was founded to protect conscience and community; we should defend both with conviction and with courage.
