Kansas Governor Sam Brownback issued an executive order on July 7 that prohibits the state government from taking any action against any individual clergy, religious leader, or religious organization that
“acts in accordance with a religious belief or moral conviction that marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman.” The governor said his order protects
“Kansas clergy and religious organizations from being forced to participate in activities that violate their sincerely and deeply held beliefs.”
Brownback issued the executive order, entitled
“Preservation and Protection of Religious Freedom,”in response to last month’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case of
Sunday before Christmas for extra Christian-bashing, with white evangelicals the preferred targets.
Writing in The New Yorker, Michael Luo complained that
“white evangelical Protestants, once again, overwhelmingly supported President Trump in the election,” and that
“churches, particularly conservative ones, fought lockdown orders and rebuffed public-health warnings.”
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof interviewed leftist pastor Jim Wallis, with the conversation quickly turning to accusations that
“White evangelicalism has destroyed the ‘evangel.’” At The Dispatch, Time columnist David French concluded that much of the scorn white evangelical Christians receive is deserved. He says the world often “rejects Christians because Christians are cruel.”