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Not focusing on it won't make it go away. A bunch of "Christian grievance" conferences have popped up in the last 5 years.

And things that were the norm 50 years ago were taboo 100 years ago...like women showing their ankles or black people being allowed to use public restrooms with white folks. Not all change is an...

So you think a state employee being disallowed to wear their preferred t-shirt while acting in their official capacity is persecution?

That's the thing Ray, if we constantly whine about things that aren't actually persecution, when real persecution arrives, no one will listen/care. It's the boy who cried wolf in real life.

I don't click on brietbart or wnd links because I'm afraid they'll give my computer herpes. Given the paragraph you pulled out, she was working the election. Her employer can dictate her attire while...

Even me? :laugh:

An attack by DeBlasio? Maybe. It's more of an instance of him being hypocritical...which is not new. Churches, at least around where I am, have done a TERRIBLE job practicing the...

I'm good with that.

Here's one that also applies to the act in question:
19 Now (AJ)the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity,...

21 (A)“Not everyone who (B)says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will (C)enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who (D)does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 (E)On that day (F)many will say to me,...

For the record, persecution is generally frowned upon in civil society. FWIW.

Oh man...you guys walked right into this one.

per·se·cu·tion


hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs.

Getting worse for Christians in South Sudan.

In Georgia, you don't joke about Chick-fil-A.

no need, the scripture is clear that all have sinned...without exception.

This is a great question that hi-lights the Church's inconsistency. The Bible is clear that God hates divorce (Malachi 2:16). Jesus speaks to divorce in Matthew 19. That's the passage that...

I thought this was funny:...

You're on a roll! First I justify persecution and now my panties are wadded? I'm gonna go back to bed and try again tomorrow.

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It's a ridiculous comparison...what is being deprived is basically a tax-status.

Slow down there professor. You assume too much. I never justified anything. I certainly never said it was moral or "right". My point was that it is not being carried out by "Christians" (in an...

I'd say whether something is constitutional or not is certainly of significance. What you've suggested (Christians precluded...) would be a direct violation of anti-establishment clause. What has...

No Christians boycott (which I'm not in favor of) has received the attention that this issue has.

That doesn't matter. As "Christians" they have no power to preclude anyone. As lawmakers and voters they do...that is the power they've used.

Atheist aren't precluded by Christians, but by lawmakers and voters in those states.

Well sure. It's no big deal with Jim Henson Co. or Starbucks makes a statement on what their view of marriage is because the media agrees with them.

I thought this was interesting when I read it back in March, but it seems to be even more interesting to me now.

http://www.russellmoore.com/2012/03/25/should-christians-boycott-starbucks/

Check out Matthew 18 (and most of Paul's letters).