Contact: Gary Cass, 954-491-9366
FT. LAUDERDALE, Aug. 24 /Christian Newswire/ -- Rev. Gary Cass, Chairman and CEO of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, expressed his disappointment with CNN in its continuing attack on conservative Christianity.
"CNN has done a great disservice by associating Christians, who believe in the power of prayer, the Bible and lawfully influencing the political process with those who blow up innocent people," said Cass. "There is no moral equivalency between sincere Christians who peacefully work to bring change and terrorists who are violent. By lumping Christian religious conservatives into a series that began with a focus on terrorism it creates an impression of guilt by association.
"We don't need CNN to give the impression that Christians condone violence or are in any way like other extremist religious groups. In the few, isolated incidences where individual Christians have violated the non-violent principles of Christ they have been roundly condemned by the Christian community. It would have been much more responsible of CNN to portray the Christian right as a religiously motivated reform movement and not to have associated them with radical violent movements."
Dr. Cass just returned from Iraq after meeting with Prime Minister Maliki and other high ranking Iraqi officials regarding religious liberty in Iraq. In 1980, Cass began working behind the Iron Curtain with the persecuted church in the Soviet Union. For twenty years he served as a minister in San Diego and is ordained in the Presbyterian Church in America. In 2004, Cass, recognized for his leadership in the pro-life movement and for helping Christians get elected, was made the Executive Director of The Center for Reclaiming America for Christ, an outreach of Coral Ridge Ministries founded by Dr. D. James Kennedy. Dr. Cass is the author of Gag Order and co-author of The Bible and the Black Board and has appeared in national and regional TV, radio and print media including ABC World News Tonight and the Washington Post.
