Subject: Re: we don't need nurses, right?

The Irish aren't hostile to Western civilization and enlightenment values.

(nativest talking points) This is a Protestant country. They're Catholics. They can't be trusted. They take their orders from Rome!

You have forgotten how Jack Kennedy had to give a speech, in 1960, to reassure USians that his Catholic faith was not going to dictate how he ran the country? I was heartened that Biden did not feel the need to repeat that bit. Most of the country seems to have gotten over that prejudice. But, Mitt Romney did feel the need to give a speech reassuring people his LDS faith would not dictate how he would run the country.

Transcript: JFK's Speech on His Religion

But because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected president, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured — perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this. So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again not what kind of church I believe in — for that should be important only to me — but what kind of America I believe in.

https://www.npr.org/2007/12/05...

Steve...raised in a Baptist lodge