In 1882, the Roman Catholic priest in Lakeville, Connecticut, erected a 12 foot crucifix on the lawn of his parish church. The following summer, the local Protestants, offended by this structure, petitinoed him to remove it. His parishioners retaliated by boycotting the Protestant merchants, and the merchants called upon the local iron magnate to fire all his Catholic workers. It happened that the local iron magnate was also Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and one of the leaders of the irate Protestants was a ...
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In 1882, the Roman Catholic priest in Lakeville, Connecticut, erected a 12 foot crucifix on the lawn of his parish church. The following summer, the local Protestants, offended by this structure, petitinoed him to remove it. His parishioners retaliated by boycotting the Protestant merchants, and the merchants called upon the local iron magnate to fire all his Catholic workers. It happened that the local iron magnate was also Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and one of the leaders of the irate Protestants was a fomer Governor of Connecticut. Predictably, the story did not end there.
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