The Puritans, as a whole, were heroic, and we owe them an enormous debt; not merely “some.” As for choosing words carefully, I would suggest that “persecuting breaches of scrupulousity” consists of words carefully chosen to obfuscate.
64 posted on 02/15/2011 1:06:38 PM PST by achilles2000
("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")