Written by Don Byrd
Associated Baptist Press reports on missionaries and others miffed at the idea that the recent controversy over the star of Duck Dynasty is an example of the persecution of Christians.
I have to challenge myself not to get angry about it,” said [Gavin] Rogers, a former Cooperative Baptist youth minister who traveled to strife-torn Egypt twice in 2013.
Those journeys, one during the Egyptian army’s crackdown on Islamists and another immediately after it, included visits to Coptic, Anglican and other churches that were attacked last summer by angry supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The recent controversy involving “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson — he was temporarily suspended from the show after criticizing homosexuals and supporting the Jim Crow South — has exposed the disconnect between how conservative American Christians view persecution compared to liberals, moderates and disciples around the world.
