Religious Bigotry

            Do Democrats hate Christians?  It is becoming increasingly apparent that they do.  How foolish.  Do they really believe that alienating Christians will persuade the electorate to vote Democratic?  Yet, evidence keeps mounting that they harbor a deep resentment if not outright hatred for people who prefer to live their lives according to Christian precepts.

            The latest assault was by presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke who would deny tax exemptions to any religious institution that opposes gay marriage.  He’s not alone.  Elizabeth Warren has said that Christians who believe in the biblical definition of marriage are hateful.  Similar comments have been uttered by Pete Buttigieg and Cory Booker. 

            They are not the first, only the more prominent ones, because their presidential aspirations have put their anti-religious bigotry on display. 

            What’s at stake here is not just the selection of the next president.  It is the fate of our country as a God-fearing nation.  If the left has its way, we will be ruled by militant secularists who would have Christians violate their religious principles. 

            We’ve already seen it: banning bibles and Christmas carols at VA hospitals; lawsuits against religious displays on public squares; forcing schools to adopt an LGBT curriculum while preventing parents from excusing their children from such instruction; boycotting Chick-fil-A; forcing Sisters of the Poor to buy insurance coverage for contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs; suing vendors who refuse to provide services for gay weddings; abortion rights up to and even beyond live birth. And so on.

            As Attorney General William Barr so aptly put it recently, “This is organized destruction.  Secularists and their allies have marshalled all the forces of mass communication, popular culture, the entertainment industry and academia, in an unremitting assault on religion and traditional values.”

            The Democratic presidential debates are making it increasingly clear that voters at all levels of government will have to choose between religious freedom and individual morality on one side, and on the other a new secular morality imposed by socialists and others on the left who do not believe we are capable of governing ourselves.