[ReformationFan]

Those of us who are Christians better brace ourselves for persecution.

[Bryanw92]

We’re bitterly clinging to our God AND our guns. When they start the persecutions, they better make it count. I’m not politely standing in line to board my cattle car!

[Uri’el-2012]

PG 107 of Obamacare Bill (DHIMMITUDE)

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

[Ransomed]

I think the title is fitting seeing as how one of the ways Christians and others will be probably be punished is for not buying into whatever impossible definition of marriage that state decides to use at the time.

Freegards

[yldstrk]

Priests are already being prepared

[stevio]

Bump.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Jesus is Lord, not Caesar.

[wku man]

Just waiting for it to start. Bring it on, bi**hes!

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[Mrs. Don-o]

Any evil that comes upon us will be the natural and logical consequence of our many sins. I hate to say this, but God's just judgment so often consists of these consequences.

And we so deserve it. As a nation. As a Church. As me, myself and I. I fell like saying, "So judge us already. Judge us and get it over with."

[only1percent]

The understanding in the piece is a bit off.

We are at a point of tension where civil rights laws continue to presume that Christians with traditional views of sexual and familial morals are in a super-majority status that makes it impossible for them to be oppressed, while the political reality has shifted to the point that such people are a tiny fraction of the elite and a distinct minority of the population at large.

This tension will be resolved as the political dominance of the secular and libertine philosophy becomes increasingly undeniable, and courts can come to regard orthodox traditional Christians in a similar light with orthodox Islam and Judaism as a minority that requires some degree of protection and indulgence for their practices.

Of course getting there is going to require that these Christians be willing to adopt that view themselves and abandon the rhetoric of a "Christian nation" and also cease to use the tools of political majority in places where they cling to it -- in other words, no one's right to refuse wedding cake business to a gay couple is going to be protected when the Lord's Prayer is still being broadcast over the PA on Friday nights at the high school football game.