exactly.
America was primarily founded by protestants FLEEING from Catholic countries where they were persecuted.
Not exactly. There were some Heugenots, but in actuality America got surprisingly few immigrants from Catholic-ruled countries prior to the Revolution, or indeed after it until the Italians started arriving in the late 19th century.
The Puritans, Scotch-Irish and Catholic Irish were to varying degrees refugees from religious persecution, but it was by the Church of England (or Ireland), not Roman Catholics.