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To: wagglebee; xzins; MestaMachine; P-Marlowe; Jim Robinson; Admin Moderator
P-M, I’m putting you on notice. If you’re undergoing some sort of gender reassignment chopectomy crap then you can’t be my FRiend any longer.

LOL!

My point is that the First Amendment guarantees our inalienable right to be wrong. It is not religious specific and there are no exclusions for religions that appear to us to be "un-American". You know more than any that the same things that are being said about ALL Muslims were said in the last century about ALL Catholics, i.e., that their loyalty was to the Pope and that the Pope was in league with the devil and all that nonsense. But in the deep South and frankly in the suburbs of Boston, that sentiment was expressed to try to make Catholics out to be in league to destroy this country and turn it into some arm of the Vatican.

"Between 1830 and 1930—a century of massive immigration into the United States—anti-Catholicism was an active element in many debates around immigration, and it pervaded popular literature and political humor in the United States, occasionally fueling violence against Catholics. Frequently references to Rome's despotic influence over immigrant Catholics served as a backdrop to outbreaks of anti-Catholic activity. Among well-known events was the 1834 looting and burning of a Charlestown, Massachusetts, Ursuline Convent at the hands of anti-Catholic vandals. More representative, however, were nonviolent deployments of anti-Catholicism such as the proliferation in the 1830s and 1840s of popular "exposés" about the repressive influences and deviant sexual activities of Catholic clergy and nuns, and the 1884 presidential election, wherein Republicans decried the Democratic Party's association with "rum, Romanism, and rebellion" (references to the party's stance on Prohibition, its heavily immigrant-Catholic base, and its strength in the secessionist South)."

US History Encyclopedia: Anti-Catholicism

321 posted on 01/12/2010 7:35:06 AM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: P-Marlowe; xzins
You know more than any that the same things that are being said about ALL Muslims were said in the last century about ALL Catholics, i.e., that their loyalty was to the Pope and that the Pope was in league with the devil and all that nonsense.

The last century?!

I can give you links where it was said on Free Republic in the last five minutes!

323 posted on 01/12/2010 7:38:01 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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