No, but that's the usual claim of the religious right. I just assumed that's what you thought. What I know you said is that the religious right are not in control, which anybody with eyes and a brain can clearly see is false.

The Puritans came to America partly because they were persecuted and partly because they wanted nothing to do with the Church of England. Interestingly enough, the first thing they did after setting off for religious freedom was limit religious freedom. If you weren't christian, you weren't worthy to live with them.

The point I've been trying to make is when they arrived their system was fundamentalist, even by the standards of the time. I never said they weren't opressed.