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by Jamie Frevele | 2:17 pm, July 2nd, 2015
While
speaking to the congregation at the First Baptist Church of Dallas, Family
Research Council President Tony Perkins said that the increasing “hostility” towards Christians in America gives
terrorists the go-ahead to commit atrocities abroad and here at home. Because
if it’s okay for the United States government to do it, then terrorists have “a
green light.”
Perkins
was addressing last week’s Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality,
which the Christian right believes is an attack on their religious beliefs
despite the ruling only applying to legal marriage and not what churches may or
may not choose to do. (In other news, the Episcopal Church just voted to allow their clergy to
perform same-sex marriages.) But Perkins, as well as others on the Christian
right, believe that the recent incidents of religious business owners taking
heat for refusing to provide services for gay customers in addition to the
ruling on marriage equality indicate that the country is stepping away from
Christian values and even discriminating against people for their religious
beliefs. And if this is happening right here in America, then what’s to stop
the terrorists who hate Christians from killing them? Here is what Perkins said
to the congregation:
“We
have allowed our own government to send a message that Christians in America
don’t care about Christianity here at home. How could they possibly care about
it in the Middle East? …
“We’re
not being asked to die for Christ in America. We’re simply being asked to live
for Christ in America. But when we as Christians here in America shrink back
from living for Jesus and we tolerate our own government’s hostility to
Christianity, terrorists and tyrants in other governments will see that as a
green light to persecute and to kill our brothers and sisters, and we cannot
tolerate that as Americans.”
Dramatic?
Perhaps. But when there is a sea change in the values of America towards acceptance rather than discrimination, there needs
to be a change in your talking points, too.
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