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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not one for internet memes, but after the election, someone posted a picture of a cross and the text "Wouldn't it be great if THIS was the symbol for safety and acceptance?"  (This was in reference to people wearing safety pins to indicate solidarity with vulnerable groups of people.)

This meme was very jarring to me, and I was sad to say I agreed with it.  I feel more and more that Christianity in America is non-accepting.  I feel like there are these incessant battles about nativity scenes and crosses in government spaces, and this is a well-settled 1st amendment issue.  A clerk who won't grant marriage licenses to gays becomes a folk hero.  There are the bakers who will not bake cakes for gays, the yarn stores that won't sell pink yarn to women for hats, anti-refugee sentiment, anti-transgender bathrooms, etc.  It seems to me that a Christian these days is the last person that a vulnerable or non-white or non-Christian person would seek help from.   Unborn children would be the only exception.

Do you agree that the face of Christianity in America is no longer the face of acceptance?  As a person of color and of a minority faith, I am becoming more uncomfortable around of people who self-identify as "I'm a Christian"  (different than saying "I am Christian")

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