"... Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN 7) advocated State Department intervention ..." Hey, what happened to "smaller government"?

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COMMENTS:
*  Of course Blackburn can't give examples. Republicans are incapable of using facts so they tell lies and hope no one calls them out on them.
*  If the Christians discriminate against someone it is called "Religious Freedom" but if I return the favor they scream persecution.....
*  Fundamental christians are doing all the discriminating. They hide their hatred and fear of those who don't believe exactly like them behind their "religious beliefs". They have totally misread and misrepresented the Bible. Real christians do not fear or hate or discriminate against anyone. They accept others for what they are.
*   crying Christian persecution is like a bully claiming they are the victim. I respect the choice to be a Christian, what I don't respect is when Christians tell others they must also follow Christian laws. You see the difference - one is a personal choice the other is a forcing your choice onto others. Fighting back against that is not persecution.
*  Christians think that being prohibited from forcing their religion on everyone else is persecution.
*  But it plays well to the Evangelical base. All of the clowns on the clown bus are saying similar - but with no real examples - just rhetoric. In by gone days we called it preaching from the soap box.
*  As Gary Larsen so effectively portrayed in one of his 'Far Side' cartoons (in which a psychiatrist in the foreground writes the following in his note pad as a patient of his is lying on the office couch in the background, all the while gesticulating and clearly talking on and on): "Just plain nuts."
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GOP Rep Says Christians Are Persecuted in the US, Can't Give Examples
By Lauren Windsor, May 11, 2015

At the South Carolina Freedom Summit, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN 7) advocated State Department intervention when asked what role the United States should play in protecting Christians around the world:

One of the things that we should be doing here is being very strong in our stance with religious freedom in our country... Our allies around the globe want to see us stay strong on our rights and not erode those rights... With the human rights violations and religious persecutions around the globe, we need a State Department that is going to step in and say, "This is not acceptable."

Blackburn thought that Christians are being persecuted in the U.S., but could not give any examples when asked by this reporter. Watch her remarks below:


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