@Baldimo,
Where do you dig up that clap trap? There was religious tolerance in England for centuries before the 1776 regardless of the King being he 'head' of the Church of England.
Trying reading some history before blathering on incorrectly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_Kingdom
Here's a tidbit for you:
Roman Catholicism remained the dominant form of Western Christianity, including in Britain, throughout the Middle Ages, but the (Anglican) Church of England became the independent established church in England and Wales from 1534 as a result of the English Reformation.[7] It retains a representation in the UK Parliament and the British monarch is its Supreme Governor.[8]
In Scotland, the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, established in a separate Scottish Reformation in the sixteenth century, is recognised as the national church. It is not subject to state control and the British monarch is an ordinary member, required to swear an oath to "maintain and preserve the Protestant Religion and Presbyterian Church Government" upon his or her accession.[9][10]
The adherence to Roman Catholicism continued at various levels in different parts of Britain, especially among recusants and in the north of England,[11] but most strongly in Ireland. This would expand in Great Britain, partly due to Irish immigration in the nineteenth century [12], the Catholic emancipation and the Restoration of the English hierarchy.
Particularly from the mid-seventeenth century, forms of Protestant nonconformity, including Congregationalists, Baptists, Quakers and, later, Methodists, grew outside of the established church.[13] The (Anglican) Church in Wales was disestablished in 1920 and, as the (Anglican) Church of Ireland was disestablished in 1870 before the partition of Ireland, there is no established church in Northern Ireland.[14]
The Jews in England were expulsed in 1290 and only emancipated in the 19th century. British Jews had numbered fewer than 10,000 in 1800 but around 120,000 after 1881 when Russian Jews settled permanently in Britain.[15]
And we won't mention how you make false claims of English religious persecution when persicution of Muslims in the US seems o offend you to no end.
Care to explain?
