[MarkBsnr]

Because the US is based on Protestantism instead of Catholicism. People are not punished in the US for being outside the Catholic church because this is the US and not the Catholic church. Based on RCC history, it the Catholic church had its way, we would be.

You might want to read up on the persecution and killings done by the Protestant colonial rulers against the Baptists, Quakers and Catholics, with the exception of Rhode Island and Maryland. The Protestant colonies established state religions and killed anyone who seriously opposed them. Your history is approximately as accurate as your theology, as it seems.

[metmom]

It’s not the law of the land.