As the government hovers over the proposed legislation on religious persecution, the perspective heightens on an ambient anomaly. One human-rights organization estimates that there are two hundred million Christians being persecuted. The most conspicuous American figures who are calling this proto-genocidal phenomenon to public attention are Michael Horowitz, A. M. Rosenthal, Arlen Specter, and Joseph Lieberman.
Mr. Horowitz is now a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and served before that as a budget official in the Reagan Administration, notwithstanding that his political convictions are liberal. Horowitz is a give-no-quarter polemicist whose rhetoric is in the tradition of James Carville, though the causes that ignite him are very different. The family of Michael Horowitz escaped from Hitler. He didn’t piece it all together-the meaning of his family’s experience and the current situation regarding religious persecution-until he learned from an Ethiopian man-servant what it can mean to preach the gospel in his country.
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