Is there any question or dispute that, whether or not Smith was otherwise a bad egg, his being Catholic was an issue in his campaign?
Is anyone saying he lost only because he was Catholic?
The article is judged without being read, and irrelevant arguments are posed as thought they were indicative of great insight.
On the contrary, I think that many are trying to prove that, at least on FR, anti-Catholicism is very much alive.
Actually, I do agree that Smith’s Catholicism was an issue, and that that is indicative of something much deeper in American history, and it’s not bigotry. It answers one poster’s comment that “the Catholic Church is the only church that matters.”