A new music video by Taylor Swift that portrays Christian protesters as ugly, hillbilly-types while using celebrities to extol the virtues of the LGBT community is being called out for promoting the same sort of bullying the singer derides in her lyrics.
“You Need to Calm Down” is set in a trailer park and shows an angry mob holding signs that read: “Adam & Eve not Adam & Steve,” “Get a Brain Morans! and “Homasekuality is sin!” Those promoting the LGBT movement in the video include singer Katy Perry, TV host Ellen DeGeneres, Deadpool actor Ryan Reynolds, transgender actor Laverne Cox, and the cast of Netflix’s “Queer Eye.” Also among them is R&B singer Ciara, a professing Christian.
Biblical scholar, Dr. Michael Brown, director of the Coalition of Conscience and president of FIRE School of Ministry, chided Swift in his own online video, saying the singer was bullying others for their beliefs.
“The fact is we want to love our neighbor as ourself,” he said. “The fact is we want to practice love and grace towards all and we want to be able to practice our religious faith, which says don’t coerce us into doing something that violates our conscience.”
He went on to mention specific cases in which Christians were discriminated against for exercising their religious or free speech rights.
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