‘Help, help, I’m being repressed!’: How conservatives make a mockery of the oppression of religious

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

1. American Evangelical Christians regularly say

That (1) they represent a majority of Americans and (2) they are being relentlessly persecuted. First, the phrase "relentlessly persecuted majority" is an excellent example of an oxymoron. Second, they are "mildly uncomfortable," not persecuted. Sending Jews to Auschwitz is persecution; passing gay marriage laws is not. Basically, their claims of "persecution" amount to "They are being mean to us by not giving us our way" -- a cry one might expect from a four-year-old, not an adult.