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Opinion in Brief

Gary Bauer: "Racism in any form by members of any race is a sin. The basis of racial reconciliation is the knowledge that all human beings are made in the image of God. ... Sadly, many of the loudest voices who are trying to exploit the horror in Charlottesville are part of the same ideology that has been waging war on Christianity in American public life. In 1962 the Left cheered when school prayer was ruled unconstitutional. For three decades, radical secularists and groups like the ACLU have waged a 'search and destroy' campaign against displays of the Ten Commandments on public grounds. School textbooks have been 'sanitized' so that the importance of faith in the American founding has been erased. The second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, which contains the founding idea of America — that our liberty comes from God — is seldom taught in public schools. Lawsuits are regularly filed to remove 'In God We Trust' from our currency or 'under God' from our Pledge of Allegiance. The First Amendment guarantee of freedom of religion is under heavy judicial attack. In recent years, Christians have been ordered to promote or subsidize acts and ideas contrary to their faith. Christians who make faith-based arguments on the sanctity of life, the meaning of marriage and other issues have been compared by some public officials to the Taliban and ISIS. Christians nominated to serve in appointed government positions have recently come under fire if they ever defended the central tenet of the Christian faith — that Christ is the only way to salvation. I hope and pray that as part of the effort to stop the hate, the Left will end its war on Christianity in the public square."