A base canard. Jimmy was protestant enough for any reasonable man. It's just that he was perhaps a bit overly fond of ceremony.
He was definitely opposed by the sort of non-conforming teetotaling bluenose bible-beating bunko artists who would throw us all in jail for celebrating ...gasp ...Christmas!
I must get to church now. The snakes get kind of rasty if they ain't fed reglar.
“He was definitely opposed by the sort of non-conforming teetotaling bluenose bible-beating bunko artists who would throw us all in jail for celebrating ...gasp ...Christmas! “
Those would be your yankee Puritan neighbors in Massachusetts. Christmas was routinely celebrated in Virginia and other points south.
James was indisputably and openly a Catholic. Your remarks apply to his Dad, Charles I, who was devoutly Anglican.
James converted to Catholicism in 1868, though it wasn’t made public till 1673.
His children were raised Protestant.
When this openly Catholic king came to the throne in 1685, Protestant Englishmen were willing to put up with rule by a Catholic, since James was to spring chicken and would be succeeded by one of his Protestant daughters.
Then James’ second wife had a son, who became heir over his much older sisters. This brought the prospect of a Catholic dynasty, not just a Catholic king. The Glorious Revolution sonn followed.
The GR is very nearly unknown in this country, which is kind of odd. The American Revolution was fought to protect the rights Englishment gained in the GR. Our Bill of Rights is obviously patterned on the English version of 1689.