By Paul Strand
WASHINGTON — Hostility against Christian Americans is growing at an alarming rate, according to a new survey from the Family Research Council and Liberty Institute.
The Liberty Institute’s Jeff Mateer noted that while last year’s survey was based on 600 cases, “this survey that we’re releasing right now is almost 1,200. So we’ve almost doubled in just one year.”
One such case involved college student Audrey Jarvis, who was asked twice to remove her cross, or at least hide it, at a student orientation.
“My supervisor came up to me out of nowhere and asked me to remove my cross necklace because he thought it would be offensive to incoming freshmen,” she recalled.
Jarvis received an apology from her college, but couldn’t forget how hurtful the man was who found her cross so objectionable.
“I think he was just kind of ignorant to the fact that his words could offend me in attempting to not offend somebody else,” she said.
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