(October 6, 2016 at 12:58 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: They didn't want to risk the fledgling nation they paid for with blood and sacrifice over religious conflict.
Even more so since continental Europe and England just emerged from centuries of bloody religious fights. That's where their roots were, as well as in the enlightenment movement. It's understandable that they didn't want a new helping of all of this for their new nation.