[maxwell]

It depends on what "heavily Catholic influence" means.

To some Protestants, it doesn't matter. The Bob Jones U. "church lady" crowd, for example... "You're Catholic, you're goin' to hell!" It's that kind of immature judgmentalism that makes me ashamed for some Protestants...

[FITZ]

Well ---I watched a Baptist and a Pentecostalist argue until they each got to the point of telling each other that their religion was really from Satan and they were going at it pretty good until I mentioned I was Catholic. Then they unified quickly ---but that kind of anti-Catholic stuff has never bothered me, it's part of the American culture ---it isn't all peace and love and holding hands ----and I'm not sure it should be.

[FITZ]

I think the "over-sensitivity" that multiculturalism brings on is far worse than what we had before. I've seen all kinds of ethnic jokes ---Polish, Dutch and others. I think it's actually part of a natural interaction between groups, I think those jokes help break down stereotypes more than promote them. If people are left to their own, soon you have the Polish telling the best Polish jokes and everyone laughing with them, but when the government intervenes and the "victim" sues for harassment, the barriers stay up much longer.