[Citizen Zed]

I guess Boehner just realized this.

[dp0622]

Catholics wouldn’t be properly patriotic;...

I manage to do it pretty easily :)

[BlueNgold]

Lovely, it’s spring of 1960 again.

People worried JFK would have the pope on the hotline. They should have worried more about his bookies and pimps, err brothers, whatever he called them...

[Mark17]

Sixty-five years have passed since John F. Kennedy went from Mass at Holy Trinity in Georgetown to take his inauguration oath on the Fitzgerald family Bible;

65 years???? I don't think it has been quite that long yet.

[OrangeHoof]

The better question might be whether Catholics should serve on the Supreme Court. Would they be willing to rule against the desires of the Pope and the Roman Catholic church if the U.S. Constitution clearly insisted they should?

Well, skip that. Apparently there are enough Catholics that are willing to support unfunded federal mandates like ObamaCare, force Catholic institutions to provide birth control and support abortion because, you see, the Catholic Church seem to do nothing to punish their heretics.

[publius911]

Never mind Muslims ... Can a Catholic be president?

Anybody have information about...

The last time catholics blew up airliners?
The last time catholics beheaded anyone?
The last time catholics burned anyone alive?
The last time catholics locked anyone in a cage and drowned them?

The last time catholics cut someone's head off on video and distributed the video worldwise?

I have the ultimate mass murderers to worry about.

I'll worry about insane killer catholics later.

[wideminded]

Go back to the early days of the republic, though, and you find a very different attitude. John Jay, one of the Founding Fathers, who went on to become the first U.S. chief justice, argued that his home state of New York should extend full toleration to every sect "except the professors of the religion of the Church of Rome, who ought not to hold lands in, or be admitted to a participation of the civil rights enjoyed by the members of this state."

John Jay proposed this amendment to the New York constitution in 1777, so technically it wasn't in the "early days of the republic". John Jay was not selected as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. Article VI of the Constitution prohibits any religious test for public office.

[markomalley]

Apparently, the founders thought that Catholics shouldn't be citizens.

Ann Coulter is right on everything, so, she must be right on this...

[Campion]

Plenty of Catholics have been patriotic enough to bleed and die on the battlefield for this country. Fine thanks they get from the neo-Know Nothing crowd.