That’s why we need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith. His Holiness, Pope Francis, told this body from the very spot I stand tonight that “to imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.” When politicians insult Muslims, when a mosque is vandalized, or a kid bullied, that doesn’t make us safer. That’s not telling it like it is. It’s just wrong. It diminishes us in the eyes of the world. It makes it harder to achieve our goals. And it betrays who we are as a country.
Although studies prove that Jews are overwhelmingly the victims of hate crimes in America; although the Obama administration itself has targeted Christians and Christianity through policies designed to punish those who refuse to violate their religious conscience; although a woman, Kim Davis, who was imprisoned for refusing to violate her Christian conscience, was sitting in the audience; although Christians are being fined and harassed and put out of business for refusing to celebrate same-sex weddings; although the mainstream media (especially CNN) regularly engages in anti-Christian hate speech, Obama was silent on their plight.
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