What effect?

[Jim Henderson]

In a message dated 97-06-16 08:32:12 EDT, Robert O'Brien wrote:

<< As I continue studying the persecution of the Jehovah's Witnesses in in
the
 '40s, I have become curious about contrasts between the effects of the
 first great religious persectution in America, that of the Mormon's, and
 the effects of the second great religious persecution, that of the JWs.
  >>

Not being catholic I have no personal stake in the question, but I wonder
that you have omitted reference to persecution of catholics which has a hardy
and resistant history going back to colonial days, and which was often
vented, for example, in the nasty political cartoons of Nast, and in the "no
Irish need apply" signs at places of business employment throughout the
northeastern US during the middle and late 19th Century.

Jim Henderson
Senior Counsel
ACLJ