It’s hard not to think, as an evangelical Christian, that America’s cultural elites would like Christians to put yellow crosses on their sleeves to identify us as outcasts. I hate to make Nazi references, but liberal fascism, as Jonah Goldberg describes it, perfectly describes the mentality and actions of those on the left who cannot tolerate views they disagree with.
Ever since the redefinition of marriage became the cause de célèbre of our cultural elites, I’ve been convinced it had nothing to do with equality or fairness or any such just outcome, but rather a desire on the progressive side of the political and cultural spectrum to not only silence Christians and other believers in traditional values, but to demonize them, to make them not welcome in polite society. Modern liberalism has absolutely nothing to do with being liberal.
A perfect example of this is what we find happening to Christians on some college campuses in America, and I’m sure more to come. The New York Times, of all places, had a piece on Monday about how a number of colleges have decided to no longer officially recognize Christian organizations on their campuses. Of a school in Maine it states:
In a collision between religious freedom and anti-discrimination policies, the student group, and its advisers, have refused to agree to the college’s demand that any student, regardless of his or her religious beliefs, should be able to run for election as a leader of any group, including the Christian association.
As is says, this is not limited to just one school:
Similar conflicts are playing out on a handful of campuses around the country, driven by the universities’ desire to rid their campuses of bias, particularly against gay men and lesbians, but also, in the eyes of evangelicals, fueled by a discomfort in academia with conservative forms of Christianity. The universities have been emboldened to regulate religious groups by a Supreme Court ruling in 2010 that found it was constitutional for a public law school in California to deny recognition to a Christian student group that excluded gays.
So let me get this ineluctable logic straight. In the name of “anti-discrimination” it is perfectly OK to discriminate against Christians? This makes sense to whom? Obviously brain-dead liberals, as David Mamet once called himself.
I simply have too much confidence in the common sense of average Americans to believe that this kind of absurd moral value racism will ever be embraced as an American value by the vast majority of Americans. But this will not keep those at the heights of American culture in law, politics, education, popular culture, and the media from attempting to push the zeitgeist in that direction. Hopefully the truly liberal will see the sheep in wolf’s clothing for what it is and demand it be stopped. If not, the future of America as the land of the free and the home of the brave will look like a very different place.
I’ll add my Amen to J.R. and Mike. There is no question that the Liberal fascists in this country and indeed in the entire Western world are seeking to remake society in their secular humanist image and Bible-believing Christians simply do not fit into that picture. This is extending way beyond institutions of higher education: it is in all levels of public education and is disrupting the private economy. We have a protected religions (e.g. Islam), protected sexual orientation (e.g., LGBT) protected public policies (e.g., climate change) and protected minority groups (e.g., non-Christian Blacks and Hispanics) The last one is proof that this is an attack on the God of the Bible. Any minority group member (e.g., Frederick Douglas Republicans) that professes biblical beliefs and the God of the Bible is excoriated just like White Christians. This is exactly why those seeking restoration of some semblance of biblical values in this society must take that message to the minority members of our society and plainly declare those truths. Actually, if the Republican had fielded a reasonable candidate in 2012 Black Christians would have voted for him, rather than simply deny Obama their vote.
J.R., you are absolutely right. I’ve believed this since redefining marriage became a cause for cultural elites. What’s happening on these campuses is only the latest confirmation.
I teach at several “Christian” Universities and am actually amazed at how much anti-christian brain washing is occurring at these Universities, as well as at the secular Universities. Much of this stems from the anti-christian “tolerance” from the homosexual activism that is plaguing our society. I am completely convinced that the same-sex marriage push has nothing to do with their warped understanding of marriage, but it is their ultimate tool to silence Christians and continue the ongoing destruction of our once great nation.
WoW! The bigotry, intolerance and hypocracy of the Colleges and Universities is amazing.
All the while they are calling Christians intollerant and hypocratic.
The Univeristy (Unity in Diversity) has become anything but.
They are now run by anti-God, anti-Good, anti-tolerant, bigotted hypocrites. Oh sorry I am being redundant.
They are the Cain’s (those who do evil) of the world who want to silence the Able’s (those who do good) from telling them that they are doing evil. So they have become intolerant of those who do good nad tell them they are doing evil. They actually do this with a straight face will tell Christians that they are intolerant. Those who are evil will tolerate and justify any evil so their evil will be tolerated and justified. Those who are righteous will not tolerate evil but try to get those who do it to stop becaue it is so destructive to everyone and every thing. The tolerance of evil must stop. If it does not evil will grow like a cancer and will devour all good. When evil total there will be total destruction.
They are driving forward heading for a cliff and utter destruction and they do not know it. All who stand in the way saying “Turn back, there is destruction ahead”, are condemned as bigots and intolerant. Would you call a person who tells a child not to play in the street a bigot and intolerant. NO! But yet you do so!!