Same-sex marriage bill opens the door to American persecution

By Tony Perkins,

“We’ve all heard of people being cancelled, thrown off social media, even fired from jobs … But how many years before a Christian minister [who speaks] on marriage and sexual orientation is reported [to] a government anti-terrorism program?”

For Reverend Dr. Bernard Randall, that time has already come. The chaplain of a Church of England School was suspended, fired for gross misconduct, and reported to child protective services simply for restating what the Church of England believes. If his story sounds like a distant outlier, it’s not. Randall’s nightmare will be every Christian’s nightmare if our Senate passes the Respect for Marriage Act.

“I was doing my job as per the job description,” Randall told a roomful of religious liberty advocates this July. Yet for being a Christian in a Christian school, he was painted “as a potential violent extremist [who] might draw others into violent extremism.” This, despite the U.K. Human Rights Act that declares, “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion” (Article 9, 1998).

How long is it going to take for this to happen in the United States, he asked? “Is it under Biden? Is it under a second term of Biden-Harris?”

If congressional Democrats get their way, it happens now. Today, the U.S. Senate is voting on a bill that supporters are insisting is just an affirmation of the same-sex marriage status quo. As Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) tells it, his party simply wants to cement Obergefell’s 2015 redefinition of marriage into federal law…. (Excerpt from The Christian Post)