Religious freedom advocates are addressing an uptick in U.S. threats by providing legal and media resources for people and institutes of faith.
“So often Christians and other people of faith feel really besieged right now,” Religious Freedom Institute‘s Eric Patterson told CBN News. “They feel besieged by neo-Marxism, by wokes, by the sexual orientation and gender ideologies that seem to be pressing a new view, that nothing is real. There’s no male, there’s no female.”
Attacks include legal fights, hostile legislation, workplace backlash, arson, and vandalism.
The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) reports criminals attacked more than 60 pro-life organizations following the Supreme Court’s historic Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. RFI also points to attacks against Catholics and a dramatic spike in U.S. anti-semitism since the Oct. 7th Hamas massacre.
Adding to this perfect storm is an aggressive cancel culture and expanding government power.
“Here’s the basic model,” Patterson explained. “It is using the power of the state, whether in an unelected human rights commission as they’re so-called in Colorado, or using a new interpretation of federal code as we’ve seen with Title IX.”
At the heart of many attacks is a belief that expression of faith should be limited.
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