Christian mother may become a 21st Century martyr

By: American Decency Staff

How big is this planet? Here’s how big. On one side, we pass laws to ensure gay couples can marry. On the other side, a wife is sentenced to death for refusing to denounce her religion.

Right now, Meriam Ibrahim, 27, sits in a Sudanese prison, nursing a newborn baby, with a death-by-hanging sentence looming over her head. Her “crimes” are apostasy and adultery. The former is because, although raised as a Christian by her mother, she refuses to renounce it and profess that she is Muslim.

The latter is because, since the government won’t recognize her as anything other than Muslim, it considers her marriage to a Christian man adultery.

May I remind you, this is 2014.

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