David Limbaugh's book, Persecution: How Liberals are Waging War Against Christianity, was a New York Times bestseller in hardback and recently made the transition to a paperback edition, complete with a "new afterword" that addresses new items which arose after the date of the book's hardback publication. It is also one of those books that is likely to generate polarized opinions depending upon which side of the theological spectrum one stands. While the theme of his book is arguably evident from the subtitle, the introduction makes it clear:

This book chronicles discrimination against Christians in American society. While tolerance is touted as the highest virtue in our popular culture, Christians are often subjected to scorn and ridicule and denied their religious freedoms. In no way does this book mean to imply that other groups are not subjected to discrimination or to deny the seriousness of that discrimination. The difference, however, is that it seems that when other groups (or individuals from those groups) experience discrimination or mistreatment the popular culture properly decries it. But when it comes to anti-Christian discrimination, the culture's attitude seems to be, "Yes, please do shut up those Bible-thumping idiots!"

Anti-Christian discrimination occurs in a variety of contexts throughout our culture, from the public sector to the private sector, in the mainstream media and in Hollywood, in the public education system and in our universities. Often the discrimination comes from activist judges misinterpreting the law (the hostility to Christian religious freedom infects our judiciary as much as anywhere else); other times it comes from entities misapplying the law. It also comes from what we call "political correctness." The discrimination mostly stems from a hostility to Christianity and from rampant disinformation in our society about what the Constitution actually requires in terms of the so-called "separation of church and state."

Limbaugh - himself a lawyer, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author (not to mention the brother of talk radio's Rush) - breaks his book into three parts. The first part focuses on "the war in our public schools," while part two examines "the war for the public square," and the third focuses on America's Christian heritage as well as considering the future of religious liberty in America. He documents many instances where Christians face subtle (and occasionally not-so-subtle) forms of discrimination in secularized America. Some - such as instances where student speeches are censored in order to remove references to personal faith, or where Christian groups are denied access to public facilities which are freely available to other groups (for meetings and the like) - do seemingly reflect an aversion to Christianity more than other forms of religious expression.