Today's Ethics Daily has posted a report about a Jewish family in Delaware that had to sell their home of eighteen years and move from their community because they were being threatened after filing suit for complaining about the promotion of Christianity in the public schools.
Yesterday, the Las Vegas Review Journal reports that the Veterans Administration refuses to put a Wiccan Pentacle on the memorial marker for an Army National Guardsmand who was killed while serving our country in Afghanistan. On the same day, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that a woman filed a suit in federal court claiming that she had been fired from her job after asking for time off to observe a Wiccan holiday.
Either the First Amendment prohibits the government from establishing religion or it doesn't. Either persons of minority faiths have equal rights under the Constitution in this country or they don't.
Christians who think they are defending their faith by persecuting persons of other faiths are certainly reclaiming a heritage. At the current pace that the clock is being rolled back on civil liberties in America, it won't be long before we read anew about Jews being herded into box cars and Wiccans being burned at the stake.
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