The campaign of the LGBT community for equality seems like a harmless idea, but for an American Catholic bishop, it is a serious threat to Christianity.

In an exclusive interview with John-Henry Westen of LifeSite News, Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz, former head of the Lincoln Diocese, said the homosexual groups' fight for equal rights has already spiralled out of control.

He pointed out that Christians are already being persecuted for opposing same-sex marriages and standing up for their religious beliefs on marriage, family and morality.

"We've had bakers refuse to bake cakes for gay 'marriages' and as a result, they are imprisoned or fined. They have to go out of business. We've seen florists who don't supply flowers," Bruskewitz said during the interview.

He said Catholic military chaplains have already expressed concern about being punished if they refuse to perform same-sex unions.

"There are military chaplains, those who administer the ordinariate of the military in our country, who are fearful about what is going to happen if two lesbians, who claim to be Catholic, come in and insist that they be married by the Catholic chaplain. If he refuses, it is entirely possible that he will be court-martialled and have to spend 40 or 50 years in Leavenworth penitentiary," the bishop said.

"So these persecutions are in the offing. And I think that they're not going to go away. And the minute that one tries to protest, they are denounced as a bigot, and as a racist, and God knows what else sort of things are heaped upon you. So that's the danger of the persecution. So I think it's probably coming," he said.

Bruskewitz said he believes gay rights' groups are not going to stop until they have obliterated Christian beliefs.

"I'm convinced that there is going to be every effort made to destroy everything Christian that would in the least bit oppose this kind of degeneration," he said.

The Roman Catholic bishop likewise lamented how "devastating" it is that the U.S. government itself is supporting this advocacy from the LGBT community.

"I can't believe that a tiny minority of the human race would perpetuate and try to, not just seek tolerance, but actually seek acquiescence and support for a perversion that is repulsive to normal human beings," he said.