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Entry: The Real Bastille Day Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_real_bastille_day#2395 Post contents: To Mr. Meng, Your analysis of the causes of the American revolution is, to say the least, unique. There were few Roman Catholics in the United States and I submit that there is very little if any evidence that the Founders intended to persecute them to any greater degree than the British already did. The practical effect of the American revolution was to emancipate American Catholics from the disabilities to which British law subjected them well into the nineteenth century. As for freemasonry, it is hard to see how it had any political or religious effect on the American revolution, since "regular" Anglo-American freemasonry strictly forbade and still forbids the discussion of politics and religion in its lodges. Only nine out of 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence were freemasons, a percentage that would probably have been found amongst loyal British subjects of comparable political and social rank. Please tell us in what way freemasonry influenced (say) Washington or Franklin that it did not also influence Lord Cornwallis or HRH the Duke of Sussex. Sent at: 2008 09 07