History Repeating Itself

Mar. 20th, 2011 07:51 am
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As the child of a family targeted in the McCarthy era, as well as a Jew in solidarity with all people but today particularly with my Muslim brothers and sisters, I cannot begin to say how just plain wrong King's actions are.
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Catholics, Muslims, and the Mosque Controversy

Sep. 7th, 2010 10:46 am
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"The American River Ganges," Thomas Nast's 1875 cartoon showing Catholic priests as crocodiles attacking the United States to devour the nation's school children

Not so long ago, Catholics were the despised minority. Will we ever learn?

But if the Catholic experience in the United States holds any lesson it is that becoming American also means asserting one’s constitutional rights, fully and forcefully, even if that assertion is occasionally taken to be insulting. The genius of the American experiment in religious liberty is precisely this long-term confidence that equal rights for all religious groups builds the loyalty every democratic society needs. Certainly American Catholics learned that lesson long ago.

Read the essay by R. Scott Appleby and John T. McGreevy here:
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