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It's only going to get worse. Vandy forced Christian groups on campus
to allow atheists, and others with whom the groups ideals ran contrary, to run for leadership roles....but there's no attack on Christianity at least that's what I'm told regularly.==============================
Vanderbilt is not the government, so you aren't really on point on the issue that the artist f/k/a RT raises here.
I think those who believe that Christianity is "under attack" are afflicted with the greater cultural disease we collectively have of claiming victimhood whenever someone challenges or disagrees with us. Perhaps Christians should live according to their calling and leave the whining to others. In fact, if you will look carefully at Scripture, you may find just that message there. Or a reasonable facsimile.
You are entitled to exercise your religion freely. You worship freely every Sunday (and any other day you wish). You may pursue evangelism freely. And, speaking of "freely," your church doesn't pay taxes. You generally have the liberty to say what you will about your faith and the faith(or lack thereof) of others. You just don't have the liberty of having every one agreeing with you. No one has that liberty. I don't think Christianity is under attack. But I do think other faiths and other secular ideas are competing more freely for the moral and ethical market in this country. Christianity is losing its market share in that area. It would probably still qualify as a monopoly if FTC standards were applied to this "market," however. It is possible that Christians should be turning inward on this issue, rather than looking outward at the "attackers." Just a thought.
Frankly, I would think Christian organizations should have no trouble hiring gay and lesbian folks, because they hire other sinners every time an application gets filled out. And, if the more conservative numbers of "true Christians" espoused here are to be believed, Christian organizations have to hire folks who aren't "true Christians" all the time. There aren't enough true believers to go around. It seems to me that true evangelism would want to get face to face with the unconverted. What better way than work, where we all spend most of our waking hours?
