Now I believe what the Catholic Church teaches, and there's something to be learned about pluralism in stating openly the beliefs of the Catholic Faith, and it is this... that one can show rather quickly the inherent hypocrisy of pluralism, which, in the name of tolerance, is itself guilty of being intolerant of the teaching of the Catholic Church by calling it bigotry. Classic liberalism: be guilty of your own accusations.
Okay, if "tolerance" is actually hypocrisy, then perhaps many of the early American colonists had it correct. The Mass. Bay colony wouldn't allow anyone to live in Mass. who wasn't a Puritan. Heck, they killed Quakers and R.I. was settled by escapees from Mass.! And they weren't the only ones who acted this way.
After the colonies became a nation, the separation between church and state came about. This, no matter what the ill educated an do LIBERALS tell you, was meant to prevent this country from having a state religion....NOT to keep; religion out of this nation.
Yet you come onto this thread and post all kinds of what you claim to be the Catholic church's positions, which look like bigotry to the rest of us. And if this stuff is true, then it would really be best for you to have kept it to yourself; especially since it makes the Catholic church look terrible.
American is NOT a theocracy, but if it was one, YOU would be the one getting the dirty end of the stick; not Protestants, since the vast majority of those involved with founding this nation were Protestants, whom you think are all consigned to hell.
The funniest thing, though, is that with every reply you make, you refute the article that heads this thread. It is NOT that there is an anti-Catholic nature to Freemasonry ( though if there was, it would be well deserved ! ); rather, there is an anti-everyone but Catholics, in the Catholic church and by some Catholics, such as yourself.
If you ever want to change your nic, I suggest that you use Savonarola.