Are Christians facing discrimination?

I'm part of a community many of whose members have roots in the kind of constituency most prone to wanting to play the 'more a victim than thou' card. So this was a useful bit of comment: Are Christians facing discrimination? | Ekklesia and the most telling point: "On the one hand they advance their arguments by citing the 70% of the country which identified with Christianity at the last census. This majority position, they argue, means that Christianity should still be given pride of place. However in the next breath, they plead Christians as a vulnerable and persecuted minority in need of special protections - which entirely undermines their case."
Of course we should really look at the issue of loving neighbour as ourselves which tends to undermine the arguments that are really rooted in a nostalgia for Christendom. Given that it is strongly arguable that power-holding distorts the gospel, sometimes fatally, we really should not be seeking special privileges for Christians. All that does is tends to make things more comfortable for the insensitively (I'm sorry but that does seem to be the case) vocal and to bring the gospel into disrepute among those who really ought to be hearing it as good news. Perhaps I've expressed that over-forcefully, but I'm not at all convinced that loud-mouthed Christians finding ways to be exempted from due consideration of their neighbours is a good thing in any scenario. The allegedly postmodern trend of winning arguments by demonstrating victimhood credentials seems, ironically, to have been adopted by those sections of Christian opinion which spend the most energy decrying postmodernity. I'm quite happy to cry 'foul' in case of genuine discrimination, but sometimes I think there is a little bit too much special pleading.