Prog Blogs, Orgs & Alumni
Bank Slate
Betsy Devine
birch paper
Democracy for NH
Granite State Progress
Mike Caulfield
Miscellany Blue
Pickup Patriots
Re-BlueNH
Still No Going Back
Susan the Bruce
New Hampshire Labor News
Chaz Proulx: Right Wing Watch
Defending New Hampshire Public Education
Politicos & Punditry
The Burt Cohen Show
John Gregg
Landrigan
Pindell
Primary Monitor
Scala
Schoenberg
Spiliotes
Campaigns, Et Alia.
NH-Gov
- Maggie Hassan
- Jackie Cilley
NH-01
- Andrew Hosmer
- Carol Shea-Porter
- Joanne Dowdell
NH-02
- Ann McLane Kuster
ActBlue Hampshire
NHDP
DCCC
DSCC
DNC
National
Balloon Juice
billmon
Congress Matters
DailyKos
Digby
Hold Fast
Eschaton
FiveThirtyEight
MyDD
Open Left
Senate Guru
Swing State Project
Talking Points Memo
50 State Blog Network
Alabama
Arizona
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Rhode Island
Tennessee
Texas
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
I want to touch on something I spoke briefly about last night. I say briefly because it was a tweet, though I did get several responses and discussed it further. On stage last night Newt Gingrich claimed that there was a problem with Anti-Christian bigotry in this country when talking about gay rights. What Gingrich suggested--the parallel he drew--is a disservice to both gays and Christians.
Last night I addressed how it is a disservice to gays by stating that I do not recall the last time a Christian was dragged through the streets, tortured, beaten and left to die for being Christian. I was of course talking about in America, but the character limit on twitter made that specificity nearly impossible.
To further address the issue in the United States, one only needs to glance at the hate crime numbers to see Gingrich is totally incorrect. According to the FBI there were 1,552 religious based hate crimes in the United States last year, and two thirds of those were against Jews. Only 7.2%, or 112 individual cases were against Christians--and many of them were anti-Catholic or anti-Protestant, meaning inter-Christian disputes. Meanwhile, crimes 1,528 hate crimes based on sexual orientation last year, 98.6% of which were a form of anti-homosexual or anti-bisexual bias, or around 1507 cases. Statistically speaking a white Christian male is the least likely American to encounter a hate crime.
Furthermore, suggesting that Christians in America are persecuted or prejudiced against for their beliefs does a supreme disservice to Christians in places like North Korea, Iran, China, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and others all over the world who are actually persecuted for their beliefs. It does an extreme disservice to them. An extreme disservice.
Source of the numbers are from 2010: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cj...
