In mid-April, Fox News columnist Todd Starnes lampooned the New Yorker for an anti-Chick-Fil-A essay. More recently, Yale University professor Steven Carter commented that the magazine’s attack contains an underlying element of racism.

Writing for Bloomberg View, Carter said the essay’s attack on Christianity was rooted in the author’s anger about the chicken chain’s opposition to same-sex marriage.

However, the African-American Carter pointed out that devout Christians are more likely to be women and people of color, with 83 percent of black Americans “absolutely certain” God exists.

“Narrow-mindedness of this sort is alarmingly common on the left,” Carter said. “A few years ago, a well-known conservative commentator mused to his large Twitter following that sometimes he wishes all the Christians would just disappear. I would like to believe he was too uninformed to realize he was wishing for a whiter world.”

Drawing parallels between the New Yorker commentary and “inquisitions” Christians in politics face, Breakpoint columnist John Stonestreet commented that believers shouldn’t cede their right to be involved in public life.

“Christians should make the best kind of citizens because they are prepared to practice justice and love,” Stonestreet said.