(1) Your hero, McCarthy, got nothing right. (2) Separation of Church and state is an excellent idea. I don't believe that you would approve of the state if it were run by, say, dominionist Protestants. Freedom of Religion is good for you, personally. (3) Catholics should dissent from Humanae Vitae, which is a terrible piece of moral theology, written by someone whose knowledge of the subject approached zero. (4) Red baiting is the tendency of conservatives to pretend that anyone even mildly to their left is a communist. Pandora, for example, called Barack Obama an extreme leftist, which is laughable. (5) Jefferson may have been anti-Catholic, but dismissing him is like dismissing calculus or . Newtonian mechanics because Isaac Newton was also anti-Catholic. (6) Silencing is also what Stalin did to those who disagreed with him.