Why is no one shouting this from the rooftops?

I am so sick of the Religious Right framing themselves as this put-upon minority. That is such a bunch of bulls**t. Christians are not an oppressed class in America! Something like 80-90% of Americans define themselves as Christian. They're the majority, and we have to stop them from legislating as though they were in danger of being run out of the country.

This conception of the RR extends to the way they debate issues like abortion and marriage rights. By presenting themselves as the opressed minority, they can diffuse the arguments for protection of minority rights by the actual minorities (women, gays, etc.).

So what if most people in Oregon, or Michigan, or Georgia want to limit the rights of citizens to marry based solely on sexual preference! They can't do it. The whims of the majority never trump the rights of the minority in this country. If they did, we would still have Jim Crow, and we wouldn't have universal sufferage. Equal protection under the law means equal protection under the law. You can't spin that, and the Repugs know it, which is why they are so desperate to pass a Constitutional amendment to strip a fundamental right from a whole class of citizens.