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To: bahblahbah
"Conveniently has no 'organized' church" Ya know, with comments like these no wonder there were a lot of anti-Catholicism in the early days of America.

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There were "organized" (I think he means "established") churches in most of the U.S. in the early days, though the First Amendment forbade such an establishment at the Federal level. In fact, until the 1870's, a person standing for election to the state legislature in New Hampshire was required by law to be a Protestant. (I'm pretty sure that law wasn't enacted by Catholics.)

21 posted on 03/16/2006 7:20:05 AM PST by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
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To: Campion
There were "organized" (I think he means "established") churches in most of the U.S. in the early days,

No. I meant organized, apparently I didn't explain myself clearly enough. England could have an establishment church because there was an organized church. Secularism is seen as an official ideology of the US government and gets away with it BECAUSE there is no Church of Secular Humanism. If there were, conservatives could point out that the establishment is endorsing that church. But because its merely an ideology, liberals honestly feel that they have the right to impose their ideology on all public and some private institutions. Unitarianism doesn't count.

57 posted on 03/16/2006 10:41:39 AM PST by TradicalRC (No longer to the right of the Pope...)
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