Personally, I think that the United States would have been better off if an equivalent to the British Penal Codes had been adopted here. The suffocating influence of Catholicism AND radical evangelism would have been nipped in the bud to the greater good. One can note that although New Zealand had different areas sponsored by different Protestant missionary groups in; Anglicans and Presbyterians, LGBT and contraceptive rights in society there have been settled, unlike in the United States where so called "Christian Conservatives", have made a Faustian bargain with the pro Neo Nazi, pro KKK and Non White, anti Woman (calling any non kitch, kirche and kinder ONLY woman a man hating, lesbian "feminazi) , LGBT loathing, war mongering POTUS called TRUMP to impose their Christianity on others!