But the Ulster Protestant who refused any political compromise with Northern Ireland’s Catholic minority, later … compromised. Both politics and religious feeling were at play here. Rev. Paisley preferred Northern Ireland to remain under the control of England, while the Catholic minority felt their interests would better be protected by independence and union with the Catholic southern Ireland. Later in life, Dr. Paisley softened toward them. And tellingly, the UK Guardian reports on what kind of anti-Catholic Rev. Paisley was not.
Anti-Catholic agitator Ian Paisley dies.
BY: Henry Matthew Alt • September 12, 2014 • Anti Catholicism; In the News