Word: anti-catholicism
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...The anti-Catholic controversy had nothing to do with prejudice and everything to do with politics. Bush's decision to make the pilgrimage to Bob Jones was a calculated risk, but if his advisers underestimated the danger of Bush's being seen as tolerating the intolerant, it may be because...
The irony is that McCain's camp did this by using the same tactic for which it was denouncing Bush--mass phone calls to Michigan voters. The calls suggested Bush tolerated anti-Catholic bigotry. Even if the tone of the phone calls was not entirely nasty, the campaign was ambitious...
B.J.U. looms large in the early-primary state of South Carolina, however, and almost every Republican presidential hopeful since Ronald Reagan has made a pilgrimage. Reagan was a special friend: his drive to reinstate the exemptions of 111 schools including B.J.U. was thwarted only by a Supreme Court ruling. Thus...
Largent, like the other Republicans, says he meant no anti-Catholic slight. "If this wasn't an election year," he says, "we wouldn't be discussing this." That may be; and Bush's sin was probably one of political necessity, not religious intolerance. However, both Largent, as a proponent of...
JOHN McCAIN Wins Michigan, endorsements, but phone alerts painting Bush as anti-Catholic means St. John bit is shot