By Russell Shaw, Real Clear Religion.
The persecution of the Catholic Church and other morally conservative religious bodies has begun in the United States.
As predicted, it isn’t — thank God — bloody persecution like the persecution of Christians in many countries. But it’s real persecution and likely to get worse.
This new persecution currently has two prongs.
One consists of pressuring individual religious believers to cooperate with public policies inimical to faith. The other prong is pressure targeted at religious groups and institutions to adapt their programs to the promotion of values hostile to the sponsors’ moral convictions.
When and if the Supreme Court announces its discovery of a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, it will be taking a giant step in both directions and paving the way for more. As we saw in Indiana earlier this year, efforts to protect the right of conscientious objection to the radical redefinition of marriage will come under even fiercer assault.
Perhaps Indiana’s religious freedom law did need tweaking, but the opponents would have preferred no law at all. For them, simply legalizing gay marriage isn’t enough. Dissent must be stamped out.
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I remeber when I was little…thinking that ‘grown ups’ were so intelligent and knew so much and were so capable. Now, I see reality….we are in a country being run by little kids. People that run governments and newspapers, and many other things are ignorant, extremely blinded children, who are apparently completely unaware of how ridiculous they are….demanding by scorched earth that everyone be “tolerant” of all they want acceptable. You can not make up idiocy like is taking place today.
Russell Shaw, Real Clear Faith, writes,
“One consists of pressuring individual religious believers to cooperate with public policies inimical to faith. The other prong is pressure targeted at religious groups and institutions to adapt their programs to the promotion of values hostile to the sponsors’ moral convictions.”
I say, “Well stated.”
Let’s be clear. The PCUSA as a corporate entity and in practice is an active participant in the persecution and disenfranchisement of the faithful and those of faith. Institutionally they fully cooperate and support both secular and religious efforts to silence those who choose to disagree with their new orthodoxy. .