That must be because Catholics have no Republic Identity. Or the Fact that the Rebellion as against a Tyrannical Protestant King.
Or Perhaps we Catholics Love this country as much as Protestants do.....
One of the strategies alinsky democrats must employ for the fall elections is to pit Catholics and Protestants against each other; Catholic voters belong to the democrats ... didn’t you get the Ted Kennedy/Tom Harkin memos?
I have a Maryland Carroll for an ancestor, KC_Lion. Spare me the didactic gymnastics.
I assume you also know that the Tolerance Acts were repealed and the Catholic origin of Maryland was by virtue of a very recent convert, Calvert, who improbably secured his haven for persecuted Catholics in England from a decidedly un-Catholic king, at a time when the pendulum had swung in the opposite direction, as it tended to do with some frequency, back and forth for over a century between Henry VIII’s break with Rome and the English Civil War.
In an overwhelmingly Protestant nation aborning, of *course* the one former colony with any significant Catholic population is going to back the religious freedom afforded by disestablishment of the State Church. They’d been persecuted by such just as the diverse Protestant groups such as Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Baptists and Lutherans had. It was in their interest to do so.
Now, if the good author Keown would just adjust to this historic reality himself. He seems to be rather heavily afflicted with the “not invented here” syndrome.
Canada, Australia, and New Zealand gained independence peacefully because the British had learned from their experience in the American Revolution.
The American Revolution wasn't necessary--it could have been avoided but for British arrogance. But we are better off for it--it inspired some fruitful thinking about how countries should be governed by the likes of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Madison, and we have been the beneficiaries ever since.