[Towed_Jumper]

I thought only the left was selective, bias, and hypocritical about the Constitutional first amendment.

I never implied that the Hindus in Texas had no First Amendment right to erect their pagan statues. Of course they do.The purpose of the original post was to highlight the fact that America has so fallen away from its original founding principles that were based on Christianity, that 90ft tall idols to foreign gods are now being raised.

In this country Hindus are free to put up their statues. That same First Amendment also lets me publicly comment and criticize those statues and call them pagan idols of foreign gods.

There were no Muslims on the Mayflower.

There were no Hindus on the Mayflower.

There were no Jews on the Mayflower.

There were no Buddhists on the Mayflower.

The fact that they are all here now in America and are all protected by our Constitution's 1st Amendment, doesn't mean we can't comment on their activities.

[Openurmind]

I am taking in the thread as a whole. It is self explanatory.

[buwaya]

There were no Catholics, Episcopalians or Lutherans on the Mayflower either. They were all members of a rather insular Calvinist sect. And not one that represents anything but a small minority of Christians that ever were in the US.

[GenXPolymath]

“There were no Muslims on the Mayflower.

There were no Hindus on the Mayflower.

There were no Jews on the Mayflower.

There were no Buddhists on the Mayflower.”

There were no pilgrims on the Spanish ships that brought the founders of what would become Texas.

Texas was New Spain from the 1490s until 1821 when Mexico won its independence from Spain. In 1836 Texians the proper term for them with the help of greater numbers of Tejanos furious with the tyranny of Santa Anna declared independence and won. It wouldn’t be until 1845 when the USA annexed the independent Republic of Texas would what is present day Texas become a American State a predominantly Catholic state at that when it was annexed again due to the Catholic Spaniards and the colonists over 350+ years.

My family other than the Indigenous American’s got here in 1731 as founders of what would become San Antonio we still hold active cattle land from the original 1741 grant for Philip V. So Texas is unique it has absolutely zero to do with the former British colony and it’s pilgrims.