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To: combjelly who wrote (362788)	12/14/2007 8:19:17 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1586870

<Most Protestant churches were allowed in most of the colonies, despite there being an established church. One of my ancestors donated the land for a German Reformed church in colonial NC despite it being officially an Anglican state. If there were no Unitarian churches in VA, that would be because there were virtually no Unitarians. There was a Jewish synagogue in Richmond Virginia (from 1789 on) so surely a Unitarian church would have been allowed as well. Even in those colonies which had no official religion, you often were still required to be a Protestant. There was a lot of feeling against the Catholic church stemming from long conflict in England. Nevertheless there wre a couple Catholics among the FF's. As for being required to be a Protestant, there were Jewish communities with their own synagogues in RI, NY, PA, VA, SC, and GA. There was a variety of non-Catholic churches in most colonies despite there being one established church. So, if you had any aspirations for politics, you were a member of either the officially sanctioned church or some other Protestant church. Those who were anything else were very brave individuals. Franklin was open about his Deism and it doesn't seem to have hurt him. Though he was respectful of Christianity. It would probably hurt a candidate, then or now, if he expressed contempt for Christianity.