GOP Says Christians Discriminated Against More Than Gays

GOP Says Christians Discriminated Against More Than Gays
By Lucas Grindley


When a viewer asked what gay couples should do who want to "form, loving committed relationships," answers from Republican candidates during Tuesday's debate devolved into a case for why it's actually Christians who are being persecuted.

"The bigotry question goes both ways," declared Newt Gingrich. "And there is a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concern on the other side, and none of it gets covered by the news media."

Rick Perry decried "this administration's war on religion." The Texas governor ran a now infamous ad in December that has been roundly mocked online complaining how unfair he believes it is that gay people can serve openly in the military while Christians are supposedly forced to hide their beliefs. He pointed to President Obama's decision to abandon a legal defense of the Defense of Marriage Act, which the president considers unconstitutional, as one battle of that war. DOMA bans the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages that are legal in some states while also ensuring states aren't forced to recognize them when performed elsewhere.

Mitt Romney was governor in Massachusetts when the courts ruled that marriage equality was required by their constitution, and he warned that "this decision about what we call marriage has consequences." Romney lamented that Catholic Charities had opted not to run adoption and foster care in Massachusetts because the law no longer allowed the group receive state money and discriminate against same-sex couples who had married there. Romney said LGBT people should be allowed to raise children, but they should ideally be raised by a male and a female, describing gay couples as inferior to straight ones in the same way that being raised by a single parent would be.

Rick Santorum has the same view but goes further. He said recently on the campaign trial in New Hampshire that same-sex parents were worse for children than being raised by a convict. Santorum said during Saturday's debate that part of his goal in banning same-sex marriage via an amendment to the U.S. Constitution is to prevent LGBT couples from adopting or fostering children, describing that as a side effect that makes the current problem "moot."

Santorum also reiterated his belief that those couples who have already wed (1,800 in New Hampshire alone) should have their marriages dissolved.

Candidates Romney and Gingrich suggested that gay couples should establish a "contractual relationship" instead of a marriage. Jon Huntsman backed civil unions, which he advocated for in his state.

"I think there is such a thing as equality under the law," said Huntsman, who also opposes same-sex marriage. "I don't feel that my relationship is at all threatened by civil unions."

Suzi wrote:And most of the GOP candidates are stark raving nuts. really!

Suzi wrote:... I wonder what will happen when one is hospitalized and "only family" is allowed in.

Forgiveness Man wrote:Christians are discriminated against more than gays. That's an irrefutable fact.

zthatzmanz28 wrote:I heard a group of atheists chased down a christian and beat the person with a strap. Then they tied him to a barbed wire fence in the middle of Kansas in the blazing sun while pouring baby oil over his body. The atheists chanted pro freedom songs and left laughing as the christian bled to death bound to the barbed wire fence.

This is happening everyday, but the liberal leftist media controlled by Rupert Murdoch refuses to report this violence..

captainbryce wrote: With all due respect, you are missing the point. ^That^ is NOT an example of "discrimination". That is an example of a few STUPID morons committing a hate crime. A "group of atheists" means absolutely NOTHING! That does not represent an organization anymore than a group of white people lynching a black man represent "white people".

Oh, and if the liberal media is so tight lipped about incidents such as this, then how did YOU hear about? And where might we find this story so that we can verify it for ourselves?

Shale wrote:

I thot he was being quite facetious - sarcastically referencing the brutal murder of Matthew Sheppard. Atheists are seldom involved in some of the brutality that Christians quite commonly engage, such as the Christian Identity, Survivalists and the KKK.

Forgiveness Man wrote:Christians are discriminated against more than gays. That's an irrefutable fact. The difference is that liberals think it's okay to discriminate against Christians, so they justify their bigotry and explain it away. There's always an explanation to justify the hypocrisy. The left in this country is full of bigoted nutjobs who make the religious crowd look ambivalent in their bias. It's time to stop sugarcoating the left as people who care because they don't. They discriminate many times more than the other side and they do it under the masquerade of tolerance.

Shale wrote:

I thot he was being quite facetious - sarcastically referencing the brutal murder of Matthew Sheppard. Atheists are seldom involved in some of the brutality that Christians quite commonly engage, such as the Christian Identity, Survivalists and the KKK.

Shale wrote:

I thot he was being quite facetious - sarcastically referencing the brutal murder of Matthew Sheppard. Atheists are seldom involved in some of the brutality that Christians quite commonly engage, such as the Christian Identity, Survivalists and the KKK.

CeCe wrote:In going back to read the article (and then some) again I find it strangely ironic that not one single instance of actual christian "discrimination" was noted. Just whining about some ambiguous persecution. I wasn't aware that christians were being denied human rights solely based on their religion. Of course there's a good reason for that.

captainbryce wrote:As I said above, that's because there is NO SUCH THING. Anyone making the claim of "Christian discrimination" will inevitably fail to produce any example that amounts to evidence of such. It's a right wing talking point, nothing more, nothing less. There is NO anti-Christian conspiracy and there is NO government organization or private organization supported by government funds that practices Christian discrimination. It's NONSENSE!