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Perhaps at no other time in Americas history has religious freedom suffered under such a
sustained assault as today. And by religious freedom, I mean Christianity. This assertion
may seem a bit dramatic to many without sufficient historical knowledge of this nations
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where religion is under attack in America, and many Christians feel it improper to defend
against.
Americans face persecution by anti-Christian organizations seeking to force Christians to
keep their faith only within the walls of their own home (and sometimes not even there).
Consider the following examples:
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publishing a book entitled Who Told You You Are Naked? Though the New York Times
claims the book was chock full of virulent anti-gay views, the book mentions
homosexuality just twice in more than 160 pages. Though there has never been any claim of
harassment, discrimination, or mistreatment by any of the homosexuals under his
supervision, the PC Police in the Atlanta Mayors office determined holding traditional
Christian views makes Cochran unfit to serve.
The NYT Editorial Board, in a stunning display of hypocrisy, states, The First Amendment
already protects religious freedom. Nobody can tell Mr. Cochran what he can or cannot
believe. If he wants to work as a public official, however, he may not foist his religious views
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class citizens. Get that? Cochran is free to believe what he wants to believe, but he just
needs to keep his mouth shut about it if he wants to hold a public office (please note the NYT
editorial board admitted there was no evidence Cochran mistreated gays under his
command, as they also admit his comments were given as a private citizen).
But viewpoint discrimination apparently flows only one was when it comes to homosexuality
and fire departments. The Rhode Island Supreme Court recently ruled it acceptable to force

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two Catholic firefighters to drive a fire truck in a gay pride parade despite religiously-based
objections. Rhode Islands highest court ruled it a legitimate work assignment, declaring
the desire to avoid the appearance of condoning celebration of behavior they find immoral is
less important than forcing their compliance. Both firefighters had asked to be reassigned
rather than participate in the parade, but were refused. Once again, matters of conscience
were killed on the altar of tolerance.
Colorado baker Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cake Shop, has been the focus of
persecution for his religious views as well. Having been requested to bake a cake for a
homosexual wedding, Phillips politely declined. For that decision he now faces lawsuits

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and the wrath of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which has not only ordered him to
bake the cake, but to submit himself and his staff to mandatory diversity/sensitivity training,
which is a prettied-up name for government-forced re-education camps meant to rid
subjects of those nasty Christian values they cling to so insistently.

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Diann Rice, a member of the CCRC, the commission now deciding Phillips fate, has called
Phillips a Nazi, claiming freedom of religion has been used to justify all kinds of
discriminationwhether it be slavery [or] the Holocaust. Get that? Declining to bake a
cake is now on par with walking Jews into the gas chamber and slamming the door shut.
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refusing to bake a cake with an ideological message with which they disagree. Marjorie Silva,
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refused when told the cake would includea message condemning homosexuality (she agreed
to bake the cake, but said Jack would have to decorate it himself). Mr. Jack is suing for

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falling all over themselves to defendthis bakers refusal, claiming the difference is that
Phillips refused to bake a cake for a homosexual couple (unconscionable), but Silva only
refused to decorate a cake. It is laughable in its transparent hypocrisy.
Ironically, it was none other than Focus on the Family, a Christian advocacy organization

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designated as a hate group in 2010 by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its opposition
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All across America, those that want to drive Christianity from the public square are filing

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lawsuits, making threats, and harassing those who publicly profess their faith. And while it

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certainly does not compare to the religious persecution suffered by Christians in the Middle
East and Africa where they are being beaten, stoned, beheaded, tortured, sold as sex
slaves, and driven from their homes it is still a saddening and disgraceful development in a
nation founded on the very idea that all men are created equal, and have the right to worship
God according to the dictates of their conscience (or not worship at all).

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last vestige of Christianity from public view and thought. Christians must either stand up

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church and state, where no religious influence should ever impact the public discourse or
policy, I leave you with the words of James Wilson, a man who signed the Declaration of
Independence, helped draft the Constitution, and was one of the original justices appointed
to the United States Supreme Court by President George Washington

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