On May 11, Vice President Mike Pence told a crowd of roughly 8,000 graduating students from Liberty University that they should prepare to be "shunned or ridiculed for defending the teachings of the Bible" in their daily lives.
"You're going to be asked not just to tolerate things that violate your faith, you're going to be asked to endorse them," he said. "Throughout most of American history, it's been pretty easy to call yourself Christian, but things are different now."
Pence clearly scratched an itch for the crowd that gave him a standing ovation and loud chants of "U-S-A” after he was introduced. His words were also a familiar refrain in the white evangelical community. According to a 2017 study by the Public Religion Research Institute, white evangelical Protestants were the only religious group more likely to believe Christians face discrimination compared to Muslims.
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