Let the witch hunts begin

I think it's funny how North American Christians think that we are persecuted. It goes without saying that we don't have a right to claim persecution in light of what the early church and the church in many other parts of the world actually experienced and still experiences. Those who would claim that the church is or is going to be persecuted will likely assume that it is in the area of limiting our practice of religious freedom. They (we) will say that the government will force us to acquiesce to the "pro-choice agenda" or the "homosexual agenda" or the "liberal agenda" and rescind grant money/ charge us with hate crimes if we take "Christian stands". Well who woulda thunk our first chance to to actually get persecuted with a stiffer punishment than fines or the rescinding of funds (that we shouldn't have accepted in the first place, but that's another story) would actually come from the issue of immigration. Immigration, the Christian non-issue that only got visibility as a morality issue in the last presidential election, by one candidate, Sam Brownback, and he was quickly shut down by the Republican majority. But now, with the signing into law of Arizona's immigration enforcement bill into law, it is foreseeable that Christians who actually want to do justice and love their neighbor could get thrown into prison for aiding illegal immigrants. And by "aid", I mean, "taking illegal immigrants to church". Yes, driving a car with an illegal immigrant in it in Arizona will be forbidden in 90 days. Pardon the reductio ad Hitlerum, but this whole situation sounds like the people who put their livelihood at stake for harboring those that were being trampled underfoot in the Holocaust. And yeah, this is a reactionary post done without much prior thought or research, so I apologize for any possible hyperbole.