[Siobhan]

Thank you for taking the time to reply. I appreciate that you outlined the Rules of Engagement as well as your willingness to allow a religion or confession to be attacked on Open threads.

My personal experience has been that anti-Catholicism in the United States has had a decidedly racist element to it and that global attacks upon Catholics and Catholicism are often not merely within the range of competing ideas especially when someone wants to silence us as a group and deny us a place in American government and American civil life.

[Religion Moderator]

It's a back-handed compliment. Your confession wouldn't be attacked if it were insignificant.

Through the ages, Christianity of every confession has been attacked. I'd be concerned if they were being ignored...