Press Release
(For Immediate Release)

IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE . . . CAN IT?

Contact:     evelynhutcheson1938@gmail.com
Website:    freematthale.org

Florence, Colorado

August 30, 2019

A North Korean defector, Illyong Ju, was among thirty survivors of religious persecution who met with President Trump at the White House not long ago. According to Ju, his cousin’s entire family was executed for sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ in that Communist “paradise.” [*]

Of course, this tale of murder, torture and tyranny is irrelevant in America, a bastion of “religious liberty” or is it? Take the case of Matthew Hale, imprisoned for forty years in solitary confinement for a “fake crime!” Matthew is frequently denied his mail and other contact with his family and friends for religious reasons. Matthew’s church—The Church of the Creator—is rather esoteric and not large, but it is as much a “religion” as those sects more recognized and therefore it should be protected by the First Amendment—only it is not. 

The federal institution in which Matthew is imprisoned has determined that any correspondence between him and people outside the facility cannot mention his church or his position within it. Even his books cannot be mentioned in any correspondence. Anything that refers to Matthew’s church, his position within it or his belief system is identified as “gang related” and refused! 

Even with regard to more “orthodox” beliefs, it is a small step between declaring the Church of the Creator to be “gang related” and bestowing that same definition—along with subsequent penalties—to the Church of Jesus Christ! We already see manifested the present culture’s hatred of Christianity and Christians! How soon will the same government strictures placed upon The Church of the Creator and its leader be placed upon those Christians imprisoned for their unacceptable beliefs? When will Scripture and the Saints be considered “gang related” and denied to Believers? 

There has been some hope that President Trump has begun to loosen the grip of Communism on North Korea, opening that benighted nation to decency and humanity! However, it would actually seem that the Spirit of North Korea is slowly making its way into the heart of our American culture when our “political prisoners” like Matthew Hale are denied their religious freedom in the name of the Deep State.

[*Link to the opening paragraph https://www.christianpost.com/news/north-korean-defector-cousins-entire-family-executed-sharing-gospel.html]

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