On today’s edition
of National Journal, C-Span’s morning show, a caller told a story intended to
demonstrate that Christianity is under attack. According to this man, a female
employee at Abercrombie & Fitch was told, after five years of employment,
that if she didn’t conceal the crucifix she habitually wore, she’d be fired.
Rather than comply with this anti-Christian edict, she decided to sue the store,
charging religious discrimination. Her suit worked its way through the federal
court system, all the way to the Supreme Court, where she was finally
vindicated. The only dissenting vote, the caller pointed out, belonged to
Justice Thomas.
The caller got
the name of the store and lawsuit part right, including the vote and the
dissent. But the plaintiff wasn’t Christian. She was a Muslim and the conflict
was between her headscarf and the store’s hipper-than-hip image. Somehow, this
caller had taken a few facts and converted them to a familiar narrative, the
war on Christianity. The level of denial necessary to accomplish this
psychological feat is almost beyond imagining.
Are you kidding me?
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