We are happy to offer these articles for your reading, concerning Father James E. Coyle
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Ain't they full of fun?
I am afraid that chapter is still being written around the globe.
There was an unholy connection between the old Methodist Church and the Ku Klux Klan and part of the connection was because of the anti-alcohol stand of the Klan and of the Methodist Church.
They probably viewed the Catholic Church as a particularly virulent opponent as they used real wine in their liturgy instead of fruit juice. (I guess the Methodist Bible of the time didn’t include the Miracle at Cana.) In some areas the Ku Klux Klan was employed to enforce prohibition.
Read “The Invisble Empire” all about the Klan. At its height in the 1920’s it was not a Southern phenomenon. Places as disparate as New Jersey, Montana and Maine had Klans and people as high as governors and Senators were Klan members. As late as the 1950s I remember reading a Life Magazine article with a bunch of Klansmen in brightly colored robes - Kleagles, etc posing with their hoods off for the camera, grins on thier idiotic inbred faces.
Harry Truman, a Democrat and briefly a Klansman, condemned them as a society of Hooded Bigots after he had left them with disdain.
Today’s United Methodist Church is still anti-alcohol - sort of, but has strayed from the path of anti-Catholocism to the equally disagreeable path of Political Correctness.
How idiots in the Klan could reconcile their virulent anti-Semitism with the worship of a Jewish Christ is beyonod me.
But I guess if you are a nut, there is no room for logic in your brain.
***darn it*****
The story of Coyle is an interesting one and truly reveals the heart of the Democratic Party...particularly as it operated in the deep South.
Roll Tide Role. The author an Ohio State employee probably wants to influence future voters for the national championship to shun the State for alleged improprieties. Find it strange she doesn’t mention similar incidents in Ohio or Michigan where both state universities had coaches (Crisler, Yost and Hayes)who refused to play Catholics at various junctions of the 20th century,
Never heard this story. Interesting read.
Hugo Black the Freemason? Hugo Black, he of the “seperation of church and state?”
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The original Klan was not anti-Catholic or anti-Jewish (it had Catholic and Jewish members including Dr. Samuel Baruch, Jefferson Davis' personal physician) and did not burn crosses. Its primary purpose was resistance to Reconstruction and its targets were Blacks, Republicans, Federal troops, and "scalawags" like my ancestors.
The second Klan is a phenomenon all on its own. Though founded in Atlanta, Georgia (by a professional organizer of fraternal organizations) and based on the very unpatriotic KKK of Reconstruction, it became a national organization representing "100% Americanism" throughout the country. How such an organization, based on a treasonous organization, was accepted as such by people all over the country is a mystery (comparable to a "patriotic" organization based on the "Tories" of the Revolutionary War era). The number one target of this Klan--the largest ever--was indeed the Catholic Church, though this has been largely forgotten. This Klan was not at all controversial in its day but was considered a commendable, mainstream organization. It paraded openly through the streets of Washington and President Harding was initiated as an honorary member in the White House.
As an interesting aside, it was this Klan that began the cross-burning ritual. Simmons had read Dixon's infamous novel The Clansman (on which Griffith's Birth of a Nation had been based). In this book Dixon anachronistically had the Klan burning a cross. He did this because in ancient Scotland (and the ritual of the Klan was based on Scotland, that being the ancestral homeland of many of the initial founders) the highland clans burned crosses as a signal to assemble. The cross was originally "X" shaped (St. Andrew's cross) but after the conversion of Scotland they began burning the Latin cross. Ulster Protestants still burn an X shaped cross as a rallying signal. Anyway, this old Scottish signal was adopted by Simmons and the Second Klan to represent chr*stianity which the Klan evidently interpreted not only theologically, but ethno-culturally as well--specifically the traditional American northwestern European Protestant consensus.
The third Klan, which began during or after WWII and persists to this day, is primarily anti-Semitic, subscribing to the classic conspiracy theories of "the Jews" as being ultimately behind all the "plots" against the white race. Also, to my knowledge, the Klan at the present time is not universally anti-Catholic.
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I think David Golstein wrote about this more than 70 years ago in his book Campaigner for Christ.
Nothing like a jury of your peers.
Most people do not know that the targets of the KKK were Catholics, Jews and Blacks.
AntiCatholic bigotry has a long established history in the US.
Many states had laws that prevented Catholics from holding elected office, some from owning property.
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