Newtins said that people came to America to flee religious persecution

[MrScorpio]

But something tells me that he's fine with religious bigots here persecuting people that THEY don't like.... You know, gays, women and non-Christians, right?

What kind of language is he engaging in again? Starts with an "H".

Can he do anything else?

[mr blur]

1. No, we just couldn't wait to get rid of the loonies,

Bloody pilgrims!

[elleng]

2. He refers to 'endowed by their creator,' and he hollers

and swears to take PrezO down.

[The Magistrate]

3. Hell, Sir, They Came Here For The Freedom To Persecute Other Peope For Their Beliefs

[fascisthunter]

5. EXACTLY....

[rfranklin]

6. That's correct...they hated Catholics like Newt

Because many of the British colonists, such as the Puritans and Congregationalists, were fleeing religious persecution by the Church of England, much of early American religious culture exhibited the more extreme anti-Catholic bias of these Protestant denominations. Monsignor John Tracy Ellis wrote that a "universal anti-Catholic bias was brought to Jamestown in 1607 and vigorously cultivated in all the thirteen colonies from Massachusetts to Georgia." Colonial charters and laws often contained specific proscriptions against Catholics. For example, the second Massachusetts charter of October 7, 1691 decreed "that forever hereafter there shall be liberty of conscience allowed in the worship of God to all Christians, except Papists, inhabiting, or which shall inhabit or be resident within, such Province or Territory."

Monsignor Ellis noted that a common hatred of the Catholic Church could unite Anglican clerics and Puritan ministers despite their differences and conflicts.

Some of America's Founding Fathers held anti-clerical beliefs. For example, in 1788, John Jay urged the New York Legislature to require office-holders to renounce foreign authorities "in all matters ecclesiastical as well as civil.". Thomas Jefferson wrote, "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government," and that "In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own."

Some states devised loyalty oaths designed to exclude Catholics from state and local office.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Catholicism

[The Magistrate]

7. Very True, Sir: Papists Were A Particular Object Of their Hate

In the absence of a local supply of such, however, they persecuted Protestants of different sects, and even created dissidents in their own ranks whom they could whip and expell....

[provis99]

9. well, actually, the main complaint of the Puritans against the Church of England,

was that they felt the Church of England was insufficiently persecuting Catholics in England. The Church of England told them to ease off, and the Puritans got mad and left.

They were called "Puritans" within the Church of England because they were so fanatical about persecuting the remaining Catholics in England.

[kestrel91316]

8. Correct. And I say this as a direct descendant of those Mayflower nutjobs.

[fascisthunter]

4. actually, the Puritans were booted from Europe