Um, what? Your analogy between early Christians, persecuted as a minority sect, and American Christians, a dominant culture, makes no sense whatsoever. American Christians are the Romans of the 21st century: privileged denizens of a powerful empire.

Denial of your glorious crusade to discriminate against minorities in the name of religion doesn't rise to the level of persecution. The U.S. is not a theocracy. It's a pluralistic democratic republic whose citizens are (theoretically) granted equal protection under the Constitution. If lawsuits are the measure of persecution then Americans in general are persecuted, rendering the term meaningless.