Posted on 10/11/2010 8:46:02 PM PDT by marshmallow
In the early 1900s, many Americans — from ordinary citizens to those in high office — were frightened by the perceived threat from the Roman Catholic Church. Their fear had tragic consequences.
The mind-set is all too familiar: A radical religious group, lurking inside the country, owing loyalty to a foreign power, threatens America. No one denies that its members have a right to worship as they please, but good Americans, patriots, feel compelled to call for curbs against the menace they present. Because of the number of Americans sharing these fears, calls for restrictions on the religion are voiced openly and unapologetically, even proudly.
Today this description may bring to mind the flap over the proposed Islamic cultural center near ground zero in New York, or recent calls for greater restrictions on Muslims in America, like banning their service on the Supreme Court or in the Oval Office. But in fact, it describes the year 1920, when the reviled group was Roman Catholics, not Muslims. As Mark Twain once quipped, history may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
In the early 1900s, many Americans were genuinely frightened by the perceived religious threat of the Roman Catholic Church and the suspected imperialistic intentions of its leader, the pope. He was plotting the overthrow of the United States, warned the fearful, to "make America Catholic." His foot soldiers, tens of thousands of Catholic men who called themselves the Knights of Columbus, were busily stockpiling arms and ammunition in the basements of their churches, all in preparation for the day when their papist leader would give the signal for the violent insurrection to begin.
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Some catholics worship social justice and would sacrifice the body of christ for diversity and affirmative action. Promotion of Islam as social justice is the reason Europe is dying and Eurabia is thriving. Economic support of illegal aliens by catholic social service agencies is the norm.
And to think, all those ‘convent inspection laws’ helped ease the public panic. After all, once the laws were inforced, the public learn how baseless their fears were.
I’d say we need to do the same now, to ease those ‘baseless fears’ the libtards accuse us of having.
For if it turns out that there isn’t anything to fear about Muslims and mosques, then it will be brought out into the public light - for all America to see. So, for a libtard to fight this, they in essence are fighting to keep the public in the dark.
Curious that libtards, so ever mindful of free speech and critical of secrecy, would be working so diligently to hide baseless nothings from the light of public inspection...
Makes you go ‘Hmmmm’.
Actually, I think you would like for us to vote Dhimmicrat next month, wouldn't you? That way, you could have some valid excuse for making up your damnable propaganda campaign.
Or maybe, just maybe, you'd like to deny Catholics the vote. Or maybe, just maybe, you'd like to deny Catholics citizenship.
Guess what: Catholics didn't elect the sonofabitch. There aren't enough of us. Sorry to disappoint you, FRiend, but there just aren't (I wish that there were...we're working on it).
According to this study, Protestants made up 54% of the electorate last cycle. Catholics made up 27%.
This study showed Obama winning 53% - 46% over McCain.
It showed that 45% of Protestants voted for Obama and 54% for McCain. Catholics were, according to this study, the exact opposite (i.e., 54/45). Jewish, other, and unaffiliated were all well over 70% Obama.
I flipped my numbers and calculated the results if Catholics had voted identical to Protestants, Obama still would have won (51.39% - 48.2%).
Bottom line is that it would have been closer, but Obama would have still won. I know you are disappointed to hear that, but deal with it.
Eighty-nine years ago in Birmingham, Ala., in the midst of this simmering anti-Catholic atmosphere, Father James E. Coyle was brutally slain. Coyle, a native of Ireland, had been sent to the United States to begin his priesthood. When he dared to stand up in defense of his faith, federal agents warned the bishop in Mobile about death threats on Coyle's life and pledges to torch his Birmingham church.Such threats were not idle. During this same period, the popularity of the Ku Klux Klan exploded after it rebranded itself a "patriotic" fraternal organization dedicated to safeguarding America against the threat of Catholics, Jews and the immigrants flooding the country in unprecedented numbers. This new Klan attracted some of "the best men in town" — doctors, lawyers, judges, law enforcement officers, even clergymen.
On Aug. 11, 1921, one of those men — a Methodist minister, the Rev. Edwin R. Stephenson — brought a loaded gun to the porch of Coyle's home and shot him dead in front of a street full of witnesses. About an hour earlier, the priest had committed the apparently unforgivable act of marrying Stephenson's 18-year-old daughter to a practicing Catholic wallpaper hanger of Puerto Rican descent
Tragic story.
Without actually trying to read any minds, I think you're on to something. The glee that is often displayed by some people when they point at idiot Catholics and then sort of look at us with narrowed eyes only serves to drive otherwise sensible Catholics back to the dolts in the democrat party. In real life I spend more time undoing damage done by know-nothings than I do refuting actual democrat silliness.
More often than not Republicans are their own worst enemies.
Actually, if all a guy does is attack fellow conservatives, you have to assume there is another motive. You see the same names pop up again and again trying to drive wedges and using whatever is at hand to do it.
Certain threads attract certain names, who can only attack, attack, attack.
Look at it this way. Secular catholics tend to vote Democrat. High-church protestants tend to vote Democrat. Believing catholics are trending Republican, as are evangelicals. Secular catholics and main-line protestants favor abortion and everything that goes along with it. Believing catholics and evangelicals do not.
Which tells me that believing catholics and believing evangelicals have a lot more in common than they do with their supposed secular brothers, or the members of now apostate churches.
Someone who comes onto a conservative website to attack conservatives continually probably has another agenda.
Was he banned? I was wondering about that.
I noticed that you totally ignored post 20.
You should read it, it explains what has driven the left during our history, you see the same thing in the congressional elections, the California facts are just heartbreaking.
Evangelicals are not "trending republican", they are the most conservative, pro-life, pro christian voters in America.
The overall Protestant vote has only gone Democrat three times, in 1932, 1936, and 1964, that is it. The Catholic vote has been totally Democrat in our history except for 6 times (and one of those is disputed), the Catholic vote and JFK and TED managed to get our immigration laws rewritten to bring in an unlimited number of Catholics from Hispanic countries, that tells us what the future holds, as they are traditional Catholic voters and will supply the Democrat party with it's traditional Catholic base.
Quit attacking the distraught conservatives that complain about the Catholic vote, and do something to fix it. I'm in California, and bemoan the loss of this once great state, what am I supposed to think when I know the facts in post 20?
You’re attacking conservatives. It doesn’t do any good to attack the people who are already on your side.
You are the one here attacking conservatives, I am discussing the liberal vote, and trying to educate people to it.
Quit attacking the distraught conservatives that complain about the Catholic vote, and do something to fix it. I’m in California, and bemoan the loss of this once great state, what am I supposed to think when I know the facts in post 20?
Yeah, just imagine if we'd killed off all the Catholics 170 years ago. Just imagine.
You really think you're going to endear yourself to anyone in the Catholic camp -- conservative, liberal, or on the fence -- with rhetoric like this?
Just replace "Catholic" with "black" and see how comfortable FR is with your vitriol. If you shouldn't say it about blacks, you shouldn't say it about Catholics. (If you try to tell me Catholics vote more liberal than blacks, I'll laugh in your face.)
If some of the usual suspects on here aren't Democratic operatives working to drive Catholics out of the GOP, they're doing a darn good imitation of same.
How childish do you have to be to post like that.
Analyzing how America got here, and looking at the left’s vote, is a part of being a conservative looking for answers, and solutions.
How can any conservative political conversation about winning elections be effective, if we conceal all the information on who is voting how?
By the way, are you for concealing all voting information, in regards to demographics and groups, or just “Catholic” voting information?
Do you have the fuzzy hat and the totally cool sword?
Thank you both! Have a blessed day.
Those are Fourth Degree Knights, but I do have my late FIL’s (4DK) sword.
James Coyle served as Pastor of the Cathedral of St. Paul in downtown Birmingham from 1904 until his assassination on August 11, 1921. Coyle was shot and killed by a Methodist minister for performing a marriage ceremony between the minister's daughter and a Puerto Rican immigrant.
“Catholic FReeper B-Chan (now banned)”
WHY was he banned??
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