A new report recently released by the Family Research Council and Liberty Institute confirms that anti-Christian hostility is rising across the nation’s public square, in schools and in government.
“America today would be unrecognizable to our founders. Our first freedom is facing a relentless onslaught from well-funded and aggressive groups and individuals who are using the courts, Congress, and the vast federal bureaucracy to suppress and limit religious freedom,” said a summary of the report from Tony Perkins, president of the FRC, and Kelly Shackelford, president of Liberty Institute.
In fact, “The Obama administration no longer even speaks of freedom of religion; now it is only ‘freedom of worship.’ This radical departure is one that threatens to make true religious liberty vulnerable, conditional, and limited.
The report documents cases, for example:
- Of a federal judge who threatened “incarceration” for a high school valedictorian unless she censored references to Jesus in her graduation speech
- A city prohibition to seniors who wanted to pray before meals
- A judge’s opinion that prayers before a state legislative meeting could reference Allah, but not Jesus
- A state attempt to regulate what religious seminaries could teach
- The Obama administration argument before the Supreme Court that the federal government can tell churches which pastors it can hire or fire
- A ban from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to references to Jesus in veterans’ funeral ceremonies
The Survey of Religious Hostility in America
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