Yea, come to think of it Perry's preacher friend doesn't think much of Catholics either. Is there a lot of religious bigotry in Texas?
Is there a lot of religious bigotry in Texas?”
We love and welcome everybody except those who want big government, try to tell us how to run our lives and our State, aren’t conservative, don’t believe in God, patriotism and the American flag.
I think there is, unfortunately, an uncommonly large number of hardboiled Protestants in Texas, particularly Baptists—I’m sorry to say—who love whacking fellow professed Christians, Catholics and Mormons in particular. A fair number of George W. Bush’s major Texas backers rejected Romney out of hand in 2008 because they viewed him as a cult member. Dislike of Catholics also has deep roots there. You may recall that in 1960, Texas’ Protestant pastors gave JFK a particularly hard time. I’m not a fan of either JFK or Mitt Romney, but that’s because I detest liberalism, not because of their religion. Inter-Christian strife is always nasty, and in their wisdom our Founding Fathers were keen to avoid replicating Europe’s religious strife here in America. Whether it’s strife between Protestants and Catholics, or between Eastern Orthodox and Catholics, or some new permutation such as non-Mormon Christians vs. Mormons, I don’t want it and I don’t need it. While I view Mormon theology as wacky and differ with Catholics on Marianism and the role they accord to saints, I don’t dispute their Christianity. They believe in Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and no other god beyond that. They affirm that Jesus is God, and that’s good enough for me.