Jim Garlow was the guest on “Wallbuilders Live” today discussing the Religious Right’s favorite topic at the moment: the supposed persecution of Christians in America.
Garlow declared that Evangelical Christians are currently experiencing “full-blown persecution” and warned that if it continues, the Christian church might eventually be entirely shut down by the government and forced underground:
If you are an Evangelical Christian, it’s a full-blown persecution like we have not seen in America. We now are beginning to wear a badge of honor that we do not want to wear and that kind of persecution that we find in the rest of the world, we’re now experiencing it here and it has enormous implications for the future.
I don’t know what’s ahead; I’m not going to try and predict the future but I know where it could potentially go and that would be where the government leans on churches so severely, so strongly, not only ripping away their tax exemption which, I assume, many churches could not survive that and the loss of buildings when you don’t hire practicing homosexual pastors or you don’t perform homosexual weddings and the church is forced officially underground. That could be where we head.
