Guy Fawkes was no hero, and certainly no anarchist!

There's an old joke that is recited among many anarchist groups, circles, collectives etc. that goes like this..........

"Guy Fawkes was the only person to enter Parliament with good intentions, and look what happened to him!"

The truth of the matter is that Guy Fawkes was a religious fanatic who wanted the official religion of Great Britain to be Catholic, so much so that he was willing to blow up Parliament for it.

You can celebrate Guy Fawkes day if you wish, and dress up in costume and set off as many fire crackers, and fire works as you want or are allowed to, but this is just another case of religious intolerance from what I have studied.

You might as well say Pope Lucius III and Torquemada were heroes and liberators of oppression as well.

(Martin Luther is another story entirely, but he was no good guy, either. He was just as racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and anti-jewish, and anti semitic as his Catholic counterparts)

Never forget that, throughout history, almost all wars were started due to religious intolerance/bigotry.

 

Sadly what you're describing is happening on many levels in the U.S. Pharmacies that are owned and operated by people with religious convictions refuse to sell any form of birth control, especially the so-called "Morning after" pill. And when our Vice President Mike Pence was governor of Indiana, he passed a "Religious Freedom" law which allow business to refuse service to people based on their religious beliefs, meaning if a gay person wanted to eat in a restaurant, if the owner had their own interpretation of the Old Testament, they could refuse service on the grounds of religious beliefs.

I still stand by what I posted, but I appreciate the history lesson concerning religious persecution/prosecution.