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Every November 5, Brits and their former subjects around the world commemorate Guy Fawkes Day. Disgruntled papist Guy Fawkes thought he was going to end 70 years of Protestant oppression by blowing up the Houses of Parliament and the King in 1605. Little did he know that his foiled Gunpowder...
The study reports that good governments are usually found in countries that are wealthier, Protestant and ethnically homogeneous.
The campaign has got bitter in recent days. The same-sex marriage advocates occasionally demonize their opponents as Christian conservatives in thrall to Pat Robertson. But Rosehill is a lapsed Protestant whose daughter is a lesbian. ("I want her to have every civil right," says Rosehill. "But same-sex marriage...
Earlier in the day, John Hume and David Trimble, the leaders of Northern Ireland's largest Roman Catholic and Protestant parties, respectively, were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in the April 10 Northern Ireland Good Friday peace agreement.
"I grew up in Belfast cheek by jowl with Orange culture...I learned little or nothing positive about it at school and I presume that my British Protestant friends were taught nothing positive about Gaelic Irish culture," she said.