Is religious "Freedom" really under attack?

• WHAT RELIGIOUS FREEDOM UNDER ASSAULT REALLY LOOKS LIKE

      What religious persecution against Christians really looks like: In France the institution of the church was under real assault because there was an active 'dechristianization' campaign against the clergy and catholicism in general after the French Revolution.  The revolutionaries saw the Catholic church as allied with the Monarchy in exploitative economically oppressive practices against the masses as they had taxing power to extract money from virtually everyone who was registered as baptized. In 1789 the State cancelled the Church's ability to tax people (a power given it by acquiescence previously of the Monarchy) .  A decree issued that ALL church property in France belonged to the nation, confiscations were ordered and church lands were sold at public auction. In July 1790 the new revolutionary government, the National Constituent Assembly published the Civil Constitution of the Clergy stripping all clergy of rights it previously enjoyed, they were made state employees, had to be elected by their parish and they had to swear an Oath of Fidelity to the new government or face dismissal, deportation or death. Those who did not so swear were called "Non-Juror" clergy and they could be literally hunted down and killed. It was during this time that a lot of Jesuits fled the country, some of whom founded Georgetown University.  On October 21, 1793 a law mandated that all Non-Juring priests and anyone who harbored them were to be killed on sight. It was a bloody revolution recall. On Nov. 10, 1793 at the famous Notre Dame Cathedral in the center of Paris a ceremony in honor of the 'Goddess REASON' was held as part of a national dechristianization campaign.  It was the 'Age of Reason.'

  By contrast Obamacare is exempting all churches or houses of worship from the Obamacare insurance reform, and stating that only if you engage in activities where you hire and serve people in non church or worship settings who believe that contraception prevents disease spread and unwanted pregnancy, you should not be there exempt from offering it. 

      Both sides have a point. Obama's folks think the religious folks are getting a bit carried away and too exercised with inflammatory hyperbolic language. If you look at what real persecution really looks like, they have a point.