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When the authors of the Constitution were debating the topic of religious freedom, they seemed pretty much in agreement. People should be allowed to worship or not as they pleased. Well, except for Catholicism. After all, the Catholic church (as the wisdom of that age supposed) was committed to establishing and maintaining princes. Fortunately, they sat on the issue until they decided that to restrict any one religion might come back to haunt America when people decided to restrict another and another... It seems that the Democrats might be well advised to take a clue from those thinkers and do a little thinking themselves before they bash Catholics and Catholic dogma
The Democrats' Increasing Catholic Problem
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Reading a Bloomberg article posted on RP earlier on this subject, it noted that in the late 1800s, the GOP was the anti-Catholic Party and continued to be so even as JFK was elected as the first Catholic president. Now the Dems are being labeled the anti-Catholic Party as the GOP assumed the anti-Muslim mantra. And with Sen. Feinstein being Jewish, does that means other American Jews have similar pre-dispositions of American Catholics?
What I do know from attending one of the largest private Catholic universities in the U.S., I met Catholics that felt the need to impose their beliefs on non-Catholics that attended the school. It wasn't the school officials encouraging this, it was mere arrogance of some within the community. When Romney was a candidate, everyone was concerned and critical of his Mormon background. It's safe to say the question of religious bias will always be asked of a government official who will be responsible for being objective and for enforcing local, state, and federal laws.
What I do know from attending one of the largest private Catholic universities in the U.S., I met Catholics that felt the need to impose their beliefs on non-Catholics that attended the school. It wasn't the school officials encouraging this, it was mere arrogance of some within the community. When Romney was a candidate, everyone was concerned and critical of his Mormon background. It's safe to say the question of religious bias will always be asked of a government official who will be responsible for being objective and for enforcing local, state, and federal laws.
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