Thank you for your thoughtful post. We pay a dear price for holding on to principles. Recently, in Philadelphia, a judge ordered a Catholic adoption agency to adopt to same sex couples. This means the agency has no choice but to shut down. This has occurred in 5 other areas in "the land of the free" where the Constitution doesn't apply to Catholics.
Then there is the time when Pope Francis had an unscheduled visit with Angela Davis, a non-Catholic, who got fired for refusing marriage licences to same sex couples. It must have puzzled the anti-Catholics who think Catholicism is exclusive.
Then there is the case where president Obama tried to force nuns to provide abortion and contraception benefits to it's employees.
I posted about how the left-behind-rapture crowd ultimately persecutes Catholicism.
You can read it here, post #15
Forums is another matter. We have (some) good sincere Christians who, unknowingly, want to get that Armageddon train a rollin'.
Protestants don't hate Catholics; if they did then they are not true Protestants. Disagreement does not equal derision, but derision leads to anti-Catholicism, and anti-Catholicism is rooted in self hatred. But the real problem occurs when public opinion, swayed by a hostile culture, affects judges, courts, and government leaders. How many years will pass before it becomes illegal to be a Christian? It's already begun, while hate cults push the "Whore of Babylon" distortions.