In the midst of terrorism and presidential elections (and sometimes I am not sure which people take more seriously), remember that historically human government has opposed the work of the Church far more often than government has supposed us.
Rather than complaining about the way the government makes life difficult, the followers of Christ should accept difficulty as a statement of reality. We cannot walk around with a chip on our shoulders, expecting to get special or even fair treatment from the world system.
true conflict comes when we decide to seriously live out the sermon on the mount and ‘love our enemies.”
The answer to persecution is to obey the commandment, “If they persecute you in one place, flee to another”.