Conservative columnist and author David Limbaugh spoke to a crowd of about 60 students last night in the Kern Building, discussing what he called a current "suppression and demonization" of Christians in American culture.

Limbaugh, who is radio show host Rush Limbaugh's brother, spoke about his New York Times best-selling book Persecution: How Liberals are Waging War Against Christians in his hour-long speech to audience members.

"My position is that we are in a culture war," he said. "Our religious liberties, our laws, our constitution are under attack in public schools, the public sector and even churches."

His opinion was supported mostly by anecdotes he collected from across the country.

"Other values are OK to promote," he said. "Christianity is taboo -- we can promote Mexican and Aztec Gods and no one objects, but when you have Christianity promoted, the thought police go bonkers."

The mainstream media in the United States depict Christianity as the "American Taliban," Limbaugh said.

The constitution was founded on a Judeo-Christian background and that freedoms and liberties were protected by religion and not by secularism, he said.

Checks and balances were intended to keep "sinful men" in check by setting them against each other in a competition for power, he added.

Limbaugh urged Christians to be aware that an "assault" on their religion was occurring in America.

"We are living in this culture war in a fight for truth," he said. "I think truth has become a casualty in this post-modern world."

He ended his speech by urging the audience not to buy into the idea that Christianity is intolerant, saying, "Christianity is not exclusive; everyone's invited."

Laura Maynard, who is the chairwoman of the Young Americans for Freedom, who sponsored the event, said she enjoyed Limbaugh's speech.

"I thought it was a very interesting speech, [it is] something that hasn't really been touched on here on campus a whole lot, at least since I've been here," she said.

Steven Owens (freshman-chemistry) said that he had expected Limbaugh to touch on various different subjects.

"I expected it to be a political discussion with a little bit of religion," he said. "It seemed more like religious discussion with a bit of politics thrown in."

Terry Bretz-Sullivan (freshman-physics) said that he is not a Christian, and he felt the speech was biased.

"There [were] some things he wasn't clear about and that didn't connect logically," he said.