I would add, who are they trying to kid? themselves?
Look around at popular culture, think back upon the recent past -- who has been most vilified of them all but those identified by Obama as "bitter clingers" to their guns and religion".
Since when were 'Catholics' known as gun-toting rednecks?
Since when in this nation, when those of the far left would make their shrill statements about those whom in their own eyes would seek to establish a theocracy -- were not thinking first and foremost about "bible thumpers"?
Ah-HA. Gotcha.
They know where the true authority lay -- not primarily in men, but in as it is written, in the (records of) the very word of God himself, as is in the Scriptures.
“Papal bulls — my foot. I spit on the pretenses of them”.
Well Happy Easter to you too!