{"id":26937,"date":"2015-10-25T12:16:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T16:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/open-question-why-do-christians-claim-persecution-when-they-have-a-right-to-practice-their-religion\/"},"modified":"2015-10-25T12:16:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T16:16:13","slug":"open-question-why-do-christians-claim-persecution-when-they-have-a-right-to-practice-their-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/open-question-why-do-christians-claim-persecution-when-they-have-a-right-to-practice-their-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Question: Why do Christians claim persecution when they have a right to practice their religion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Open Question: Why do Christians claim persecution when they have a right to practice their religion?<\/b><br \/>\nChristians can go to church to worship God, set up Bible study in colleges and high schools. They can practice their faith openly and without fear of being arrested. This alone means they are not persecuted at all. When Lgbt people gain marriage and adoption rights and are included in non discrimination policies along with religion is it not persecution of the Christian faith. It is simply a group of people who Christians did suppress and deny earlier gaining their rights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/answers.yahoo.com\/question\/index?qid=20151025084545AAHQxAZ\" class=\"autohyperlink\">answers.yahoo.com\/question\/index?qid=20151025084545AAHQxAZ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Question: Why do Christians claim persecution when they have a right to practice their religion? Christians can go to church to worship God, set up Bible study in colleges and high schools. They can practice their faith openly and without fear of being arrested. This alone means they are not persecuted at all. When &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/open-question-why-do-christians-claim-persecution-when-they-have-a-right-to-practice-their-religion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open Question: Why do Christians claim persecution when they have a right to practice their religion?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Open Question: Why do Christians claim persecution when they have a right to practice their religion? - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/open-question-why-do-christians-claim-persecution-when-they-have-a-right-to-practice-their-religion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Open Question: Why do Christians claim persecution when they have a right to practice their religion? - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Open Question: Why do Christians claim persecution when they have a right to practice their religion? 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