A dark day for American Christianity
Bill Muehlenberg writes in Christian Today Australia: “Erik Stanley of the Alliance Defense Fund points out the foolishness and danger of ‘hate crimes’ legislation: ‘These types of crimes are already punishable under existing federal, state, and local laws. Violent crimes should be punished regardless of the characteristics of the victim. Bills of this sort are designed to forward a political agenda and silence critics, not combat actual crime. The bottom line is that we do not need a law that creates second-class victims in America and that gives the government the opportunity to ignore the First Amendment.’”