Evangelicals Quotes
In America (and Europe) while the Roman Catholic Clergy oppose contraception but the majority of Catholics did not agree and used artificial contraception. There is a small proportion of the Evangelical churches who oppose contraception, but at this time over 90 percent of Evangelical clergy did not.
Five years earlier, Young had all but given up on the idea of converting Native Americans—see {619863} and {619863}. Young was very ambivalent about the Indians, at some points wanting to convert them and on others to have them removed from the area to make way for Mormon growth and development--{619865}. At this time, the Mormons and the Federal Government were at loggerheads regarding the requirement for enforcing Federal law in all territories including Utah. Young and others hoped to enlist Indian warriors in any potential battles with the army.
Reading this quotation, one would think that it was uttered in the early 21st century when the Christian Fundamentalists drove Christian liberals out of many of the evangelical churches and out of the Republican Party. However, this process and conflict has been ongoing for almost a century. This quotation was made in 1922.
In the American system, we do not oppose any religion. We do oppose the right of any religion to use the power of the state and governments to compel or use government resources to promote or subsidize their religion. Other countries have established churches or a national religion. In that sense, some religions perceive America objects to their religion because we do not make it our established religion. Opposing prayer in public schools is not opposing prayer. It is only opposing prayer in that specific context where all payers are paying including the non believers in that particular religion.
At the time many Protestant evangelicals viewed Catholics as subversive to the American way of life because of their allegiance to the Pope and parts of Catholic Theology. The Christian Evangelicals in America have been split on their views of immigration. See {632914} for an example of a contrary position.
