‘An Open Letter to President Obama

….We hear your deafening silence
….Christians are being beheaded in the Middle East and you have lectured us about the Crusades.  Christians have been killed in Charleston and you have preached to us about the National Rifle Association. Christians have now been singled out and murdered in Oregon and mum’s the word.  Why?
What would you have said, Mr. President, had the victims been Muslims?  What would you have said had they been targeted because they were transgender, gay, or wearing a hoodie?  Would you have condemned it?  Would you have called for hate-crimes legislation?  Would you have confronted the ideology that led to the crime?  Would you have lectured us about phobias and bigotry?..’