Study your history, because that’s an old story. The Puritans who fled England and settled in Massachusetts Bay did not try to establish religious freedom in th

Study your history, because that’s an old story. The Puritans who fled England and settled in Massachusetts Bay did not try to establish religious freedom in the modern, pluralistic sense. They just wanted freedom to practice their own religion. They were intolerant of dissent and quickly established their own orthodoxies. Individuals who challenged their religious and civil authority, such as Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson, were banished. Quakers who arrived later were brutally persecuted, with some being executed.