It is a great irony that churches are being treated as public
nuisances today in America. Anti-Christian groups have been working
diligently to secularize America and erase its religious heritage. These
groups have pressured government and courts to intrude into the affairs
of churches.
Churches are being discriminated against by local governments. Pastors are even being censored.
It
was not always this way. From the beginning, our Founding Fathers
established our country on religious freedom. They believed religious
freedom was so important they enshrined it in the U.S. Constitution.
Throughout
our nation’s history, churches have been recognized as a great benefit
to society and pastors have had the freedom to openly declare the truth
about matters of moral and religious conviction.
Consider this one
example of anti-Christian discrimination. In New York City, the school
board has been trying for nearly two decades to block Bronx Household of
Faith from meeting in an empty public school building during non-school
hours. Other groups, however, are welcome to rent the same facilities.
This
is a church that has fed the poor and needy, assisted in rehabilitating
drug addicts and gang members, helped rebuild marriages and families,
and generally provided services of great value free of charge to the
community.
It seems like the government, embarrassed at its
inability to solve the community’s problems, is lashing out at the one
institution – the Church – that is actually doing something about them.
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