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Many evangelicals and traditional Roman Catholics like to paint themselves as a persecuted group. They speak of Christian bakers prosecuted for refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding, dressmakers in trouble for rejecting the business of a gay woman wanting to buy a dress for her special day, and so on. Actually, these are cases of discrimination and the law is the law. You can believe whatever you like, be a bigot about whomever you like, but once you withhold services to someone because of their gender, race, religion, or sexuality there are consequences.
If there is persecution it comes from the other side. Believe me, I know. I’m a straight, middle-aged man but when I publicly declared for equal marriage and abandoned by former views I saw the spiteful face of the Christian right close up. My children were targeted, I was called a pedophile, a thief, a liar, and an adulterer, there was a concerted campaign to have me fired from my places of work, and my wife was told to leave me.