Are you a Quaker or a Jesuit?

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Quakers advocated equality and pacifism and they were hated and
distrusted because of these beliefs, but they also had a long, often
violent battle going with the other sects, particularly the Baptists.
They literally tossed shit on one another in the streets and raided the
others churches or meetings. 

Refusal to swear oaths caused many problems for Quakers.  After 1665
people in England were required to swear the Oath of Abjuration to prove
that they were not Catholics. 
Quakers refused to swear the Oath of Abjuration.  

In Puritan Massachusetts several Quakers were hanged on Boston Common in
October 1659. On the first day of June in 1660, Mary Dyer became a
martyr for her Quaker faith as she swung from a gibbet on the green
fields of Boston Common. Other Quakers were fined, banished, imprisoned
or tortured. And the Catholics? They had no right to be there in the
first place. So they would not even get a trial or a public hanging.
Catholic clergy were forbidden to enter Massachusetts on pain of death.

What about Maryland or St. Mary's Land?  Wasn't that a safe place for
the Catholics to live? 

On October 20, 1654, the Puritan-dominated assembly repeals the Act
Concerning Religion (religious freedom) and replaces it with a law
stating "none who profess and exercise the popish religion ... can be
protected in this province", thus denying legal protection and civil
rights to Catholics. The Puritans - who knowingly and deliberately moved
into an existing colony that they knew  had obtained its grant for the
specific purpose of giving a place of haven for Catholics - repeal the
law they had been forced to adopt 5 years earlier and replace it with a
law denying Catholics inherent rights and legal protection in their own
colony. 

Quite a mess and it gets more so....