text: You are absolutely correct. You know that religious freedom garbage we were force fed in school about that being the reason for the pilgrims? Those fanatics were being hung and imprisoned in England for practicing their version of Christianity, so the came to these shores and set up theocracies, killing those who opposed them. In modern times, they would go to prison here too, so they get the government to implement their violence for them, thus they can walk away and say: see, we have no blood on our hands!