God help us! Even supposed conservatives are historically illiterate!
The Puritans came so they could live in a place where their own moral code was imposed by law. Religious freedom was not a hallmark of Puritan Massachusetts (otherwise there wouldn’t have been Rhode Island as a separate colony). Indeed Congregationalism was the established church of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts until 1848. (Congress could make no law respecting an establishment of religion, but there was not such ban on the several states until the 14th Amendment and a little interpretive jurisprudence thereafter.)
Our ‘Liberals’ are the intellectual descendants of the Puritans—they want to regulate every little aspect of our lives (sex excepted), from what kind of car we can drive, to how far we can drive it, to what kind of lightbulbs we can use, or whether we can buy used childrens’ toys (no), just like the Puritans wanted everything regulated. (They almost starved trying socialism.) Witch trials? Visit any college campus with a ‘liberal’ speech code.
Penn and Calvert (the Quaker and the Papist, neither Puritan nor ‘pirate’) came for religious freedom, and established it in Pennsylvania and Maryland.
David - - Take a deep breath, dude. It’s a mental exercise, not an historical treatise, much less an examination of religious freedom.