It may surprise Christians in the West, like ourselves, that we have in one or two generations achieved minority status. But we have. The winds of social change around the world are blowing against strongly held religious views, in part as the legacy of the attack on 9/11. That terrorist act showed the world what fanatical religious beliefs could do. The surprising result of this is that religious freedom has become one of the great issues of this century.
In the correct concern to protect “rights,” growing out of the Civil Rights Movement, we have often forgotten that those whose rights stem from their view of God’s will especially need protection.