Religious intolerance

Fired for your faith?
March 17, 2016 |   |  Share with Friends

“Notice of TERMINATION.” 

“You’re FIRED!” 

“You’re OUT!”

“Con­vey a penal­ty check to the bureau imme­di­ate­ly.”

All of the above is what some Chris­tians are already hear­ing from employ­ers or gov­ern­ment agen­cies.

Their liveli­hoods are being destroyed because they refuse to deny their faith on the job.

Will you stand for these heroes of faith? Will you help Fam­i­ly Research Coun­cil bring their sto­ries to Con­gress, state­hous­es, and all Amer­i­ca?

These include per­se­cut­ed Amer­i­cans like:

• Aaron and Melis­sa Klein — A coura­geous Chris­t­ian cou­ple whose bak­ery closed after the state of Ore­gon fined them $135,000 because they polite­ly declined to help cel­e­brate a same-sex wed­ding cer­e­mo­ny. Will you help stand with the Kleins?

• Kelvin Cochran — The for­mer out­stand­ing fire chief for the City of Atlanta, who was fired after writ­ing a book on Chris­t­ian dis­ci­ple­ship that includ­ed a sec­tion sup­port­ing a bib­li­cal view of mar­riage and sex­u­al­i­ty. Will you help standwith Chief Cochran?

• Joe Kennedy — A high school foot­ball coach in Bre­mer­ton, Wash­ing­ton, who was fired by his school because of his per­son­al, pri­vate prayers at mid­field after games. Will you help stand with Joe Kennedy?

• Dr. Eric Walsh — A top health admin­is­tra­tor rude­ly fired in a voice­mail by the State of Geor­gia after they learned he was a lay min­is­ter in his denom­i­na­tion and reviewed ser­mons where he defend­ed the bib­li­cal view of mar­riage. The voice­mail con­tained laugh­ing, and Dr. Walsh heard the words, “You’re out!” Will you help stand with Dr. Walsh?

These are just a hand­ful. They are men and women who have decid­ed that the cost of com­pro­mise is worse than the cost of courage. 

They are “choos­ing rather to suf­fer afflic­tion with the peo­ple of God, than to enjoy the plea­sures of sin for a sea­son; esteem­ing the reproach of Christ greater rich­es than the trea­sures” of the world (Hebrews 11:25–26).

Please sup­port FRC to help stand against the bul­lies try­ing to silence our faith, destroy the fam­i­ly, and steal our free­dom. Stand with the per­se­cut­ed heroes of faith in Amer­i­ca. Stand with FRC in Con­gress, the media, and the grass­roots.

Right now “pro­gres­sive” rad­i­cals like the ACLU are try­ing to stop laws that would help stop such per­se­cu­tion of Chris­tians in the work­place.

And the bul­lies are try­ing to pass even more laws to encour­age such intol­er­ance against your faith, fam­i­ly, and your abil­i­ty to make a liv­ing.

FRC will counter them with facts, research, and irrefutable log­ic defend­ing reli­gious free­dom.

But to sus­tain this defense, we need your sup­port.

A gen­er­ous donor has giv­en a $50,000 Grant that oth­er donors have matched. I praise God for that bless­ing. Now I’m chal­leng­ing you to DOUBLE the orig­i­nal match amount for a total of $100,000 raised beyond the Grant.

FRC stands for your val­ues in the halls of pow­er in Wash­ing­ton. But we do even more.

We are using our media clout to expose attempts to bul­ly Chris­tians so that oth­er believ­ers will be inspired to stand coura­geous­ly … so that poten­tial per­se­cu­tors will back down and not vio­late the free­dom of Chris­tians to live out and express their faith … and so that Amer­i­cans will “blow the whis­tle” on attempts to sup­press reli­gious free­dom.

Please donate now and join with oth­ers to dou­ble the $50,000 Match­ing Grant.

Thank you for stand­ing up with FRC as we serve those who are sac­ri­fic­ing so much for their faith.

Stand­ing (Eph­esians 6:13),

Tony Perkins
Pres­i­dent