Same here. As much as it rather scares me to admit it, my faith would flourish.

I've been saying for a couple years now that America and Canada have been wasting their time lobbying for moral and decent laws. All the resources spent battling in courts and against governments is a major waste for the church. We should have spent all this time preparing ourselves for how to live in Canada and America while suffering open persecution.

It's a given America will follow suit. A decade strikes me as optimistic. It could happen much sooner. Oh well, as difficult as it will be at least it will shave off many "so-called" christians from the ranks. We can use a healthy trimming.

Consider this, how long will we be free to voice ourselves on this very board?

You know it's funny, but I almost blame the right wing extremists instead of the left wing ones. They want to silence the opposing view as much as the liberals. In 1990 a poll taken of Americans showed more than 30% didn't believe the KKK or Nazi party should have freedom of speech. Speech is free or it isn't. When we try to block out evil speech, evil will come full swing to block (or try to) good.

"There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God." - Jonathan Edwards