One must not forget that the 'intolerance' went both ways. Many Lutherans
and other Protestants were put to death for their faith in the decades
following the Reformation and that Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman
Catholic Church and remains so to this day.
Attitudes of intolerance regarding relationships between the two Christian
Communions were brought to the United States. Roman Catholic insistence on
the raising of the children of a mixed Roman Catholic-Protestant marriage in the
Catholic Church did not contribute to the changing of the attitudes brought
from Europe to America.
Fortunately, attitudes have changed in recent decades in many places.
Gary Beard
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