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Christians are certainly persecuted in other countries. An Indian man I talked to one time told me that when he converted from Hindu to Christianity his life was immediately in danger both in India and Thailand.
Those who call themselves Christians but defend and embrace all manner of immorality may not experience much persecution. However, “all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.” Unbelievers hound believers wherever and whenever they can.
You are preaching to the choir.
If that isn't yet another trademark non sequitur, I don't know what is. "You're fighting the wrong battle," sounds like projecting.
No. However...
Repeat you are preaching to the choir.
If the Democrats ever get in power there will pe persecution.
The only real persecution of Christians I've seen was the persecution of Catholics especially when JFK was running for president.
It happens to be the law to not discriminate against anyone. He can choose to disobey the law. Martin Luther King Jr. did that and suffered the consequences. Or he can work to change the law.
Another blind and ignorant observation. He won at the Supreme Court level, and rightly so, because it followed the Constitution, whereas the state of Colorado was decidedly anti-Christian. Religious freedom is under attack, especially if the religion is Christian—another way to put it is “persecution of Christians.”
That is not true. Christians are persecuted in America. The persecution of the baker who would not make a cake for a gay wedding was just such a case. He was not subjecting anyone to his Christian beliefs. Rather, he was being told to bow to the demands of homosexuals or face prosecution. He didn't bow, they prosecuted him and they lost and freedom of religion won. Freedom of religion is not the stifling of rights of Christians to openly practice their faith.
I have tried to be circumspect in warning Christians in America about persecution. I feel a little odd calling some of the things we experience in the U.S. "persecution" while in some other country extremists might march a group of Christians out on a beach and behead them.
The baker did not discriminate against anyone. He was the one being discriminated against. He served homosexuals in his store all of the time. He did not decline to make a cake for homosexuals on the grounds that they were homosexuals. He declined to make a wedding cake that glorifies something that violates his faith and he did not want to use his craft to glorify sin.
That's the liberal way of getting around having to actually contend for the faith and stand against the immorality and perversion that is infiltrating our churches and our schools. Christians are called to be salt and light. That means that we engage the culture, and not simply use "spreading the Gospel" as a shield to hide behind when it comes to having to confront the sin and perversion of the world.
The law can not violate individual rights granted by the COTUS. The state of Colorado was in violation of the law.