There are many people involved in Christianity who claim that are being persecuted. In fact, the only place in which Christians are actually persecuted is the Muslim world; and there, everyone who is not a Muslim – or even a different denomination of Muslim – are being persecuted as well.
The claims of persecution on the part of American Christians are ridiculous. Christianity is America's dominant religion, and it is the American Christians and not the people in America who aren't Christians who do the persecution. The gays are persecuted by these Christians. The single mothers are persecuted by these Christians. The people in San Francisco are persecuted by these Christians. They are not being persecuted themselves.
Just to show how ridiculous this has gone, I once ran into a young evangelist in Tucson who claimed that he had been “persecuted” the previous day. How did he get persecuted? He aggressively evangelized some club-goers, and they said, “There is no Jesus only Buddha.” If that is persecution then I am Princess Diana. These people had a right to respond to some jerk who got into their faces and told them what to do and who to be.
And portraying such things as persecution is an insult to anyone who has actually been persecuted.
In America, the Christians do not get persecuted. In America, the Christian Right persecutes everybody else. Most Americans are Christians, and they are in no risk of being persecuted. The same cannot be said for homosexuals, single mothers and religious minorities.
American Christians discredit themselves by adopting such obvious fictions. Anyone with a brain will be able to say that they are full of crap. Outside of the Muslim world, the Christians are at no risk of persecution. It is rightful for American Christians to help their brethren in Middle East. It is not right for them to claim that they are themselves being persecuted in America.