I’ve never figured out why they want to claim a connection to people who practiced every sort of depravity, either, but that seems to be a proud claim of Protestants (that the Cathars were the secret church and the ancestors of Protestantism, etc.). I actually didn’t realize this until a former Protestant (now Catholic) friend told me about her Sunday school education and how Protestants traced their “lineage” to the Cathari, the Albigensians, and just about any hideous heresy known to God and man.
From the article:
...it has led some conservative Baptists to reject the label “Protestant,” since successionists can’t accept the view that Baptists emerged out of the Protestant Reformation in the 17th century.Labeling all who dispute the Primacy of the Pope - whether Reformers, anabaptists, or just wolves and heretics - as "Protestant", and then claiming that all believe in the same other things, seems to be a common practice of Catholic Apologists. Here's a little history lesson that might help, or do you believe that a rejection of papal primacy is all that defines being "Protestant"?