This morning I heard from a parent source at Whitefield Academy, the Rainbow Cake Girl school, saying that one of the teachers in the school is pregnant. “Some sicko worm climbed out from underneath his rock to post on her social media page that he hopes she and her baby dies.”

I remember the first time that happened to me. I was at the New York Post, and had written a column that was in some way critical of something LGBTs wanted. A self-identified gay man e-mailed me, put his name on the e-mail, and said that he hoped my newborn child died of AIDS. That was the first time I had ever dealt with that kind of hatred. It unsettled me all day. I wouldn’t wish a thing like that on my worst enemy. That their child die? This man not only did so, but he was so proud of it he signed his name to it.

Like I said, that was the first time I had to deal with something like that. It wasn’t the last, not by far. I quickly developed dinosaur-thick skin. This poor young teacher has likely never dealt with anything like this. I can easily imagine her shock and grief. I regret to say: get used to it. This is the world we live in. Yes, certain gay people and their allies can behave this way, but this kind of savage cruelty knows no demographic barriers. David French and his family (which includes an adopted African child) received countless demonically hateful e-mails from Trump supporters over his public opposition to the president.

The existence of social media offers daily evidence against the claim that humanity is basically good.

I received this letter from a reader, which he has given me permission to post:

Your recent articles on the Whitefield Academy have caused me to revisit some experiences that I had a few years ago when I was targeted for online attacks by two different groups of gay men and their allies.  These attacks occurred because I had publicly argued against the redefinition of marriage to include same-sex couples and because I made arguments defending the importance of freedom of conscience.  My experiences were nowhere near as bad as what the leaders and teachers at the Whitefield Academy are experiencing right now, but I still found them to be traumatic enough.  I can only begin to imagine what it is like to be targeted by an outrage mob on the scale that you are describing.

During the first time that I was targeted, I was surprised to find that many of my friends actually agreed with the bullies, and even my friends who thought that the bullies were wrong were afraid to say anything against them.  The second incident occurred when I saw someone else who was being attacked in a similar way to what I had experienced and I spoke up to defend them, so I had at least one ally in that exchange.

In retrospect, the first set of attacks were excruciating to endure because I felt completely isolated.  I was able to cope with the second set of attacks a little more easily because there was one other person involved who agreed with me and who provided a touchstone to remind me that not everyone else in the world had gone mad.  All in all, the experience emphasized the truthfulness of Ecclesiastes 4:12 in my mind:

“Though one may be overpowered,

two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.”

Your articles on the Whitefield Academy may provide a similar touchstone for the leaders and teachers who are being attacked there if they know about what you have been writing.  Have you reached out to them through your contacts there to make sure that they know that at least one blogger is sharing their story truthfully?

Moreover, how would you recommend that people like myself could encourage the Christians at the Whitefield Academy who are being attacked?  Could you set up a blog article asking people to offer encouragement and then moderate the comments below that article so that only encouraging messages to the targeted people would be allowed to be posted?  Or could you collect encouraging emails to the targeted people from your readers and then relay them for us?  (It probably would not be prudent to just share their contact information directly, because that could result in them receiving even more hate mail than what they are already getting.)

I am tired of watching the LGBT lobby isolate individual Christian organizations and then pick them off at their leisure because we don’t stand together and defend each other.  We need to begin to support each other better if we are going to survive the cultural storm that is coming with our faith intact.