Can anyone point me to any actual persecution or mass discrimination of Catholics in the US today?

[ButterflyBlood]

207. Actually it's because I've never seen it in my life. Ever.

In fact I didn't even KNOW the Jack Chick crap about Catholics not being real Christians was out there and promoted by anyone until I was 16. At that point I had already long renounced the church so I didn't care and wasn't offended. In fact (and to my shame), I actually had a little misguided admiration for Chick for a brief period after I found out about him, my thoughts being along the lines of "Yes he's an extreme bigot and he has no knowledge of science and history and his tracts are completely inaccurate about both that and love to distort and twist the Bible...but I'll still give the guy credit for having the courage to stand up to the Catholic Church and the Pope!" But that's what happens when you're a teenager, a group that often thinks very stupid things, and someone who was deeply hurt by the Catholic Church, and saw the Chick-type fundamentalists as a much lesser deal because while they seemed crazy, they were also people I didn't have much interaction or experience with ever, while the Catholic Church was a deep plague on my life at the time. I still have a lot of demons from that era that make me say incredibly rude and insensitive things a lot on this topic, as this thread can show...

I had seen plenty of bigotry and discriminatory thoughts and comments...toward atheists and non-believers. Not surprising in my very conservative city. But I had never seen any type of discrimination or serious friction between Christians. The attitude of basically 100% of the Protestants and over 90% of the Catholics I knew growing up was that it didn't matter what denomination you belonged to, as long as you were a Christian that was all that mattered. And so yes if you wanted to convert to some other denomination go ahead, it's not a problem and no one will care. Of course if you were talking about someone converting to Wicca or Buddhism or being an atheist the attitude wasn't quite the same or as tolerant...but that's a whole other story.