The United States was established by and for Protestants with religious freedom because of the persecution they’d experienced in the British Isles and continental Europe, therefore Catholics were tolerated. Get that through your head. Former territories of Mexico ceded to the United States due to war and treaties do not a founding people make.
Your as informed when it comes to.matters of history as you are to theology. Masses ehere held in every state up and down the easterj Seabord including Virginia prior to your lesbian queen sending over a drunken heretic to even attempt to found a colony, or in other words to steal land from Spain.