Is your friend a Freeper? Do you grasp that distinction that I made?
The distinction being that only Catholic freepers dislike H8? If we were to believe what you said, why would it only extend to Catholic freepers and not Catholics at large? (My friend is a conservative Brit but he may be a sleeper freeper. Who knows?)
Plenty of people dislike Henry the Eighth. You don’t have to be Jewish to like Levy’s...er, I mean Catholic to dislike him.