The First Amendment is for Nazis

“people in the red states vote for nazis to govern, and then call themselves Christian, it will not end well for them. #BoycottIndiana”

Can you guess what sort of person apparently tweeted this? A liberal and unbeliever tweeting under a phony name? A reporter or columnist working for mainstream media, perhaps? Maybe someone who runs his or her own business or is presently unemployed and not worried about getting fired?

The woman whose public Twitter account tweeted this sentence last Friday in response to Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) is a federal employee: Elizabeth Ashack, an economist at the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Indiana’s law prohibits other laws that “substantially burden” an individual’s religious freedom unless there’s a compelling government interest. For that reason, this tweet casually insulted the Christians who pay Ashack’s salary, benefits, and whatever perks the government bestows on her.

The Nazi reference, as liberals use it, is old, tired, and hypocritical, the fallback position of an angry and vicious mind completely intolerant of people of faith who dare judge deviant behavior as deviant. Only God judges the soul; His creatures can and should judge people’s actions.

Ashack quickly deleted the Nazi tweet and her place of employment from her Twitter profile. But once something’s out there, it stays out there. She then claimed this:

“On Friday, March 24 both my work and home computer were hacked. An investigation is underway. Twitter and LinkedIn accounts were compromised.”

Ashack deleted that tweet, too. And now her Twitter account has completely disappeared. A BLS spokesperson told The Blaze that the matter is under review. Is the agency concerned about the Nazi accusation or the backlash? I’d imagine the victims of actual Nazis and many WWII veterans who fought them don’t appreciate how casually people throw around the term these days. Ironically, fascism was all about government control and forcibly suppressing the opposition. Which group does that sound like in 2015?

Indiana is one of 20 states with their own RFRA. (Arkansas was close to becoming the 21st state, but Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who originally said he would sign the bill, got cold feet this morning, calling for changes.) So why aren’t liberals calling their comrades to boycott these other states. And what about the federal RFRA Bill Clinton signed into law in 1993? You’d think the First Amendment’s religious freedom protection would be enough to bar the government from trying to force Christians to violate their religious tenets, but sadly we’ve seen otherwise.

The Apostle Paul warned and assured us long ago when he wrote:

“… all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus” (2 Timothy 3:12–15, NKJV).

Will it get worse for Christians? We know for certain it will not end well for the unrepentant.