At the South Carolina Freedom Summit, Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee was asked what the United States should be doing to protect Christians around the world.
She responded that
“One of the things that we should be doing here is being very strong in our stance with religious freedom in our country… Our allies around the globe want to see us stay strong on our rights and not erode those rights… With the human rights violations and religious persecutions around the globe, we need a State Department that is going to step
in and say, ‘This is not acceptable’”.
She also claimed that Christians are being persecuted right here in the United States.
When she was then asked to give an example of this persecution, she admitted that she actually did not have one.