By: Rod Swift
Re: Freedom of choice

KY> Well, I suppose there are similarities..  Christians certainly are
KY> persecuted against at least as much as gays claim they are.

DW> Really? Care to offer some examples?

* Christians are denied the right to marry their partners
* Christians are regularly fired for being Christian
* Christians are regularly denied housing and accommodation by
  landlords
* Christians are regularly denied public accommodations by
  hoteliers
* Christians are regularly denied the ability to participate
  in St Patrick's day events
* Sex between Christians is outlawed, but the same sex between
  non-Christians is not
* Atheists use the depraved sexual acts of Christians to raise
  funds
* States do not hire Christians for jobs
* Christians aren't allowed to be day care centre workers or
  teachers
* When a Christian dies, the partner of that Christian has no
  right to be next of kin, nor be automatically treated under
  probate law
* Christians don't have the right to determine the affairs of
  their dead partners, instead, the atheistic family of the
  deceased automatically is supreme in the matter
* Christians aren't allowed to profess that they are Christians
  and actively serve in any military to defend their nation
* Christians are the majority of child abusers in the United
  States
* Christians seek to pervert your children from moral atheism
  to the sick, degenerate Christian lifestyle
* Christians can't reproduce, so they must convert.  Christians
  can't produce offspring that are Christian at birth
* Christians are being denied the ability to adopt, as they
  don't express the secular or atheist community morality that
  the state expects of adoptees
* People are actively passing ballot measures to deny Christians
  any right or claim of recourse or discrimination against any
  state government or its agencies.  Further, these ballot
  measures specifically state that Christians cannot seek to
  redress or outlaw discrimination under the law should a state
  legislature see the compassion and want to protect them
* Christians are regularly denied access to their sick partner's
  hospital beds, and denied access even if the partner who is
  sick demands the hospital grant access
* Christians cannot claim the exemption from inheritance taxes
  that married godless atheists enjoy, and hence have to pay tax
  on the first $600,000 of an inheritance
* Christians have to worry about crossing state borders, where
  their legally valid wills, durable powers of attorney for
  medical care, etc, may not be valid
* Christians wish to attack secular USA by demanding domestic
  partnerships for their filthy and perverse "unions".
* Atheists regularly protest and boycott major corporations
  because they happen to have policies which treat Christians
  to health care benefits on the job, or Christian community
  organisations.  These protesters have been known to target
  the companies which advertise on television shows that
  portray Christians as normal human beings.
* Christians display their sick tendencies one day a year at
  Christian Day at Disney World, and offend many atheists.
  The Disney Corporation should ban Christian day at Disney World
  in Florida.
* In schools across the country, students are regularly subjected
  to the taunt "Christian" by their peers.  In Nebraska, it was
  found that on average, a student was subjected to the epithet
  "Christian", "God Boy", "Jesus Lover" or "Christo!" 25 times
  a day.  Sometimes, the use of this language was made in front
  of a teacher, and the teacher did nothing to stop this
  horrendous act.
* In one school, a boy was subjected to four years of torture by
  his atheistic peers, who beat him on a daily basis, broke his
  bones, manhandled him and threw him into the male toilet
  urinals, and urinated on him -- solely because the boy was
  Christian.  The Christian boy sued the school.  The schools
  atheistic boardmembers are now whining about having to pay
  $900,000 to this "christian" in a settlement.
* Christians fear walking down the street and holding hands,
  or kissing their crucifix necklace, because they fear atheists
  may bash them with baseball bats, shoot them, even kill them
  for just being "Christian".
* A christian who is divorced from a murderous felon regularly
  loses custody of the child to the felon.  After all, murder
  is better than Christianity.
* Christians get together at certain times of the year, normally
  around "Christian holidays", and organise parades with floats
  and displays, or organise creches and other filthy expositions.
  At these parades and expositions, they expose the public to
  their filthy and perverse lifestyle -- the fact that they exist
  and are human.  Such displays of reality should be outlawed and
  banned, say atheists, for the protection of the children!
* Christians regularly have their artworks banned.  Congress is
  considering cutting funding to Christian art, as it is
  "filthy", and not a case of first amendment expression.

Yes, Christians are *REALLY* persecuted in the United States.

Rod "...there are more examples, but you get my meaning" Swift :)