“It is dramatic,” says Liberty Institute Founder Kelly Shackleford, of the recent hike in reported incidents of persecution. “I have been doing these types of cases for almost 25 years now. I have never seen the levels of attacks like these and how quickly they are now proliferating.” Shackleford says government, from schools to social programs, is the ringleader.
“There are children being prohibited from writing Merry Christmas to the soldiers, senior citizens being banned from praying over their meals in the Senior Center, the VA banning the mention of God in military funerals, numerous attempts to have veterans memorials torn down if they have any religious symbols such as a cross, and I could go on and on,” Shackleford said.
It's gotten so bad that even the ACLU has begun agitating to stop the persecution of Christians which homosexuals and non-homosexual liberals in the U.S. are engaging in directly and also within their positions in government:
The ACLU Fights for Christians
Several legal coalitions have also stepped up because they saw a serious need to do something as government was not only involved in the persecution but also failing to adequately protect Christians from homosexual and liberal extremists and their anti-Christian virility (A few random links to some of the many many occurrences:
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here,
here,
here,
here, etc...).
According to some experts a pattern is emerging reminiscent of Jewish persecution in post war Germany. "Isolation of, and discrimination against Christians is growing almost geometrically" says Don McAlvany (geopolitical analyst) in The Midnight Herald. "This is the way it started in Germany against the Jews. As they became more isolated and marginalized by the Nazi propaganda machine, as popular hatred and prejudice against the Jews increased among the German people, wholesale persecution followed. Could this be where the growing anti-Christian consensus in America is taking us?"
Maybe we should ask the woman in Houston, Texas who was ordered by local police to stop handing out gospel tracts to children who knocked on her door during Halloween informing her that such activity is illegal (not true), and that she would be arrested if she continued.
Worldwide, Pew Research reported in 2014 that "Christians continue to be the world's most oppressed religious group, with persecution reported in 110 countries." They stayed that harassment against Christians for their faith extended to 151
^ In Brussels:
Assaulted by gay activists, Belgium archbishop closes eyes and prays - International - Catholic Online
Open Doors annual report showed the number of Christians murdered for their faith worldwide almost doubled in 2013 over the previous year. Christian Solidarity International produced a global report indicating that over 150,000 Christians were martyred last year, chiefly outside of the United States. However, they asserted "persecution of Christians is on the increase in the United States."
This is just a taste of the persecution from homosexuals and those who wrongly call themselves liberal against Christians in both the U.S. and the world at large and all studies show that is rapidly accelerating.
The time has come to begin extending Civil Rights protections to Christians in the U.S. to secure their human rights and Constitutional rights and also agitating for the protection of Christians around the world.
I have to get ready for church. Peace.