Make Christianity A Race?

So, I was talking to my dad last night and recounting an experience in my government class over the recent decision of the Supreme Court to hold to the Prop 8 decision. A lot of the opinions were that it was a hate crime and that it was discrimination and an injustice etc. etc. Then I went home and was surfing youtube when I came across the Samuel L. Jackson infomercial, you know the one where he talks about how"African-Americans were being denied their rights and it was wrong. So why do the same to Homosexuals?" Now, the problem I have with this propoganda is the fact that suddenly Sexual Preference was a race.

It was then that my dad brought up a funny thought, "Why not claim Christianity as a race? We have rights don't we?"

I of course looked at him like he was crazy and then he went to explain, "God chose us before we were born so we are born into the elect aren't we? If we don't realize it at first it's just us in the closet. When we accept Jesus Christ and confess our faith that's our coming out. So why not claim Christianity as a race?"

Now, he was making a point, but it was an interesting point. One that I had never thought of. Those who are against Prop 8 claim that homosexuals don't choose to be this way and the same could be said for Christians. We do not choose, we are chosen. And also homosexuals may "know from birth" the way they are or come to terms with it later on in life. The same can be said for us, some of us are born into Christian homes and know our whole lives that Jesus died for our sins and some of us come to terms with it later on.

And our opinions and rights are being challenged, even silenced. I mean, look at Miss California. She was attacked for what she believed in, she was verbally abused and continues to be degraded just as well are. "Intolerant Bible huggers" as I once remembering being referred to. And in schools or in our workplaces, our practices, our beliefs, our God is censored and taboo. We are told to keep it down and keep quiet. Do we not have the right to practice religion and free speech?

My life is affected by what I believe in. I lead a different lifestyle too you know.

So why is it a matter of opinion when people don't agree with me and my lifestyle, but it is a matter of prejudice when I don't believe with a Homosexual's lifestyle?

interesting thought.