Jews went out of their way to stress that it is no longer possible to deny that Christians are being tortured and killed for their faith. The result was a series of political and religious role reversals. We believe that if the United States makes the center of its foreign policy profits, rather than people, and money, rather than human rights, then we will have lost our soul as a nation. This blast of global idealism didn't come from a World Council of Churches official, a U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops staff member or a moderate Baptist with ties to the Jimmy Carter era. No, it came from Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition.
Progressives face wrenching debates, as well.
Many have hesitated to back this cause because so many of today's persecution reports center on evangelicals and Catholics. Another speaker alluded to these tensions. When God's children are in prison for praying, America must speak out. When God's children are put to death for proselytizing, then America must speak out. This defense of evangelism didn't come from a charismatic televangelist, a National Association of Evangelicals executive or a Southern Baptist missionary.