well...

Let's take this slow and see what I've misunderstood. I Googled for Christian persecution and Prop 8 (yes, I knew what that was about) and read some blogs, watched a video of what happened in the Castro district. I'm aware that the church was for Prop 8, and that the Mormons and Catholics seem primarily to have been financing/or for it, and I'm aware that it overturned same-sex marriage and that there's now a pending court ruling which will likely overturn Prop 8 and allow same-sex marriage.

And obviously gays are upset about Prop 8.

But persecution? Even if one believes that homosexuality is a sin against God, since there is no law against Christianity and no law that is intended to force Christians into becoming married homosexuals I don't see how this qualifies as anything resembling persecution. Christian rights aren't being violated. Christians are imposing their beliefs instead on non-Christians. So the non-Christians are being persecuted, if anyone is being persecuted at all.

I agree with your husband - Western Christians haven't the faintest idea what persecution is. Instead of looking for trouble in the Castro district, they could be feeding the hungry or housing the homeless. Less hymn singing in gay areas and more doing things that would bring honor and glory to Christ. Neither the Christians nor their protesters acted particularly well in my opinion.

I thought I basically said the same thing in my post? My concern is that when Christians meddle in the governing of the world, in thinking that their Christian ideas of morality (which I am not saying I disagree with) can be or should be imposed on the State, they are setting a legal precedent for their own secular freedom to be taken away at some future date.

In my opinion, it is the very meddling and insistence in the US of Christians wanting to take their Christian agenda to governments, federal and state, that has caused the very things you have talked about in relation to your doctor or your pharmacist. You open yourself up to others when you make religious issues out of government. If state and religion are supposed to be separate, why does the church keep interfering in government? That is asking for the government to interfere in the church.

I don't get that.