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Originally Posted by cologal
I find this string pretty amazing.... the fear expressed would be pretty unbelievable if these same things had not already been expressed against other religious groups. When President Kennedy ran in 1960 Catholics were targeted. I believe the phrase used was we were all Papist's. We had large families....with all those children we would become the majority and we were NOT Christian. I couldn't say much about that one I was 1 of 9. We had guns stored in the church basement getting ready for the day we would take over. And Kennedy he was going bring in the Pope to rule. Of course none of it was TRUE.
Most of the people posting in this thread are Christians.....
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I remember it well. Coming from a small college town in Pennsylvania where Catholics were a minority, it was never an issue until that election. Walking with my life-long friends to a Science Fair at the college, my friends started spieling out the hatred that they heard from their parents at home. As a teenager it really shocked me and brought a realization how narrow minded and hateful people can be to make whatever they support look better by making someone or something look worse. It happens here in this forum a lot.
In this same small town we had no blacks or any people of color. When I went into the Navy at 17 years old, I soon found out what real hatred and bigotry was. It remains today in many ways. It sometimes is masked a little better. I'm just saying.....
Xavier