'Tis a pity that you weren't the one dragged off that United airliner, Dwayne Ale'inn Rooty-toot-toot.
As for what you're 'perceiving', re. 'Persecution', some people just want to see the right-wing fundamentalist Christain world burn.
For that's exactly what the likes of you would like to see happening to those not exactly like you, eh...?!
Because if that's not your intention, then you & all your ilk must therefore drop that whole 'Watch sinners burn in Hell' BS. Indeed: you must drop the whole 'Sin' & 'Hell' BS from your entire doctrine. [/Josh Buggar]
Otherwise, let the Persecution begin.
...and then they came for the fundies such as Dwayne Ale'inn Rooty-toot-toot, and I did not speak out because I was not a fundie. But then, I did not need to.
They did not shut up. Thus they brought it upon themselves.
Do you see the Quakers & Unitarian Universalists being 'Persecuted', Dwayne? If your answer is the only one possible, therefore Q. E. and fucking D.