Blue lives matter needs to clean up their shit
Coming from the church who conducted the crusades, and tortured and executed non-believers?
You know, the ones committing the religious persecution that the colonists were trying to escape. Funny to see them playing the same old tricks with their fancy wordplay.
The Protestant Church is a derivative church of the Catholics. All the Catholic stuff, plus divorce, to please the King.
They wanted away from all of it.
The situation of the Catholic Church in the Thirteen Colonies was characterized by an extensive religious persecution originating from Protestant sects, which would barely allow religious toleration to Catholics living on American territory.
Catholicism was introduced to the English colonies in 1634 with the founding of the Province of Maryland by Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, based on a charter granted to his father George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore.[11] The first settlers were accompanied by two Jesuit missionaries travelling as gentlemen adventurers.[5]
However, the 1646 defeat of the Royalists in the English Civil War led to stringent laws against Catholic education and the extradition of known Jesuits from the colony, including Andrew White, and the destruction of their school at Calverton Manor.[12] During the greater part of the Maryland colonial period, Jesuits continued to conduct Catholic schools clandestinely from their manor house in Newtowne St. Francis Xavier Church and Newtown Manor House Historic District.
After Virginia established Anglicanism as mandatory in the colony, many Puritans migrated from Virginia to Maryland.[5] The government gave them land for a settlement called Providence (now called Annapolis). In 1650, the Puritans revolted against the proprietary government and set up a new government that outlawed both Catholicism and Anglicanism. In March 1655, the 2nd Lord Baltimore sent an army under Governor William Stone to put down this revolt. Near Annapolis, his Catholic army was decisively defeated by a Puritan army in what was to be known as the "Battle of the Severn". The Puritan revolt lasted until 1658, when the Calvert family regained control and re-enacted the Toleration Act.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_the_Thirteen_Colonies
American Anti-Catholicism has its origins in the Reformation. British colonists, who were predominantly Protestant, opposed not only the Catholic Church but also the Church of England, which they believed perpetuated some Catholic doctrine and practices, and for that reason deemed it to be insufficiently Reformed. Protestants discontented with the Church of England formed the earliest religious settlements in North America. 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."[2]
Some colonies supported an established church, which received tax support from the colonial legislature.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_the_Thirteen_Colonies