Strange. I remember evangelicals burning Harry Potter books in the 2000’s, Amy Grant losing her CCM audience for [checks notes] getting a divorce, and Andrew Breitbart starting a witchhunt using highly-edited video excerpts to get Shirley Sherrod fired from the USDA in 2010.
Receipts: https://twitter.com/mariachong/status/1279894816810127360
More 1980’s and on rightwing cancel culture. People forget how many people got fired for banal speech and behavior in previous decades. https://twitter.com/mariachong/status/1223077988364771328
Well before rise of term “cancel culture.”

“NY Divinity School Disinvites Pro-Palestinian Speaker” (2015)
https://www.thefire.org/new-york-divinity-school-disinvites-pro-palestinian-speaker/

“Blindside Film Banned from Bookstores” (2012)
https://rachelheldevans.com/blog/christian-bookstores-chokehold

Threats/punishment for atheist students (2013)
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/09/harboring-young-atheists/279095/
New York Divinity School Disinvites Pro-Palestinian Speaker - FIRE

Speaker disinvitations on college campuses tend to start long before commencement season, and this year is no exception. New York’s Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School (CRCDS) appears to be this...

https://www.thefire.org/new-york-divinity-school-disinvites-pro-palestinian-speaker/
Also:

World Vision censured for LGBT policy (2014)
https://time.com/41918/christian-group-that-flip-flopped-on-gay-marriage-loses-donors/

“Prominent theologian threatened for LGBT views” (2017)

https://www.baptiststandard.com/news/baptists/lifeway-may-pull-peterson-books-from-shelves-over-lgbt-views/
Christian Group That Flip-Flopped on Gay Marriage Loses Donors

After losing over 3,000 sponsors for needy children, the relief group backed out of plans to allow hiring for legally married gays and lesbians

https://time.com/41918/christian-group-that-flip-flopped-on-gay-marriage-loses-donors/
Yeah. https://twitter.com/mariachong/status/1349873627013890048
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