Many flavours of hatred

Christians persecuted in Australia !

An Australian media outlet has published a shocking catalogue of violence, hate speech, discrimination and attempts to silence those opposed to the redefinition of marriage, most of whom it says are Christians.1

On 22 September Mercatornet stated: “Everyone should be concerned over the growing discrimination, persecution and vilification of Christians which is occurring in Australia. Not only is the government failing to protect the human rights of Christians, but often it seems to be enabling discrimination and persecution through legislation and comments made by parliamentarians.”

They drew attention to a wide range of news reports of attempts to silence Christians campaigning to protect traditional marriage in Australia’s current referendum. We do not have space to list all of these appalling acts of intimidation here, but just some of the threats and actual acts of violence include: