By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A Christian website has published a list of the top ten attacks on Christian beliefs during the past year and says they prove that Christophobia is on the rise in the U.S.
The Christian Post is reporting that the list, which is the result of an on-line poll, was compiled by the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission (CADC), a non-profit organization that champions the cause of Christians in the U.S.
Respondents to the poll cited the expected use of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to force faith-based institutions to hire non-believers as the number one offense of 2010. This was followed by the decision by an openly homosexual California judge to overturn the state’s Constitutional Marriage Amendment against the will of the people.
Also ranking high on the list was the expulsion of two Christian women from their Master’s programs in counseling because they refused to affirm the validity of the homosexual lifestyle. Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court, even after evidence surfaced that she tampered with a statement from a major medical association to make it reflect support for partial birth abortion, was ranked number four on the list.
The arrest of 88 pro-lifers at Notre Dame when President Obama spoke there in 2009, the murder of two Christian missionaries in Florida, and the firing of a Christian journalist who sent an e-mail from his home computer in support of traditional marriage also made the list.
“Every year the list grows as godless, secular values inflame the minds of many against God, Jesus Christ and Christianity,” the website states. “Although many of the attacks are only rhetorical, now government policies are being imposed that encroach on Christian’s liberty of conscience.
“While freedom of speech is denied to Christians to proclaim the Truth, radical secular organizations are free to promote their lies. In extreme cases the anti-Christian hatred boils over into violence.”
Dr. Gary L. Cass, president and CEO of the CADC says this kind of blatant discrimination against Christian beliefs has been going on for years. “Seculars and non-believers have been trying to discredit Christ,” he told the Post, and “it’s been getting more intense each year.”
These assaults on a Christian’s basic freedom to freely believe and exercise his or her faith illustrate a fear of Christianity, he said.
“If these same types of actions were taken against other groups, one would call it bigoted,” he said. “Everyone says if you oppose homosexuality, you’re homophobic. If you oppose Islam, you’re Islamophobic. If you oppose Christianity, you’re Christophobic.”
The purpose for publishing the list is to highlight episodes of irrational hatred against the Christian faith and encourage believers to take a stand.
Click here to read the complete list.
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