A Clarification: On Marginalization

I was reading an article this morning addressing a study that said Protestants have lost the majority in the U.S. which brought up the increasing trend of said group to decry itself as being consistently more and more marginalized in this country.

Here's the thing...

Here in America, many, many groups are marginalized because of things outside their control, things like ethnic heritage, gender, sexual orientation and a whole host of other things.  That's wrong, because discrimination is wrong, period.  By extension, it's also wrong when someone judges you or doesn't listen to what you have to say based on some personal affiliation, like political or religious ideology, but it's not the same and you have to realize that. 

If you align yourself with a group that, by and large, is voluntarily and increasingly vocal in their exclusion of many other groups (cause that's what marginalization is, guys, it's not just when you don't get your way, every time), you have chosen to give up the right to complain when that group is, in return, marginalized by the rest of the society whom you've chosen to marginalize.

In closing, Christians (and all you other folks who are making this mistake, and you know who you are), please realize that if you start to understand that we all have to live and work in this country, and being to accept others, like that Christ guy, who was all about acceptance, you could very easily unmarginalize yourselves.