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Socialist Outlook no. 7, Summer 1997 · 164 words

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But the Orange Order is not like that, it is an organisation whose whole reason for existence is militant anti-Catholicism.

People should not allow themselves to be fooled, I find it difficult to believe that those who want to march through a Catholic area playing "The Sash My Father Wore" do not know what they are doing - engaging in a deliberate act of provocation or intimidation.

These marches are generally perceived as expressions of antiCatholic bigotry, and those Protestants who hold reasonably tolerant attitudes towards Catholics tend to avoid having anything to do with them.

The Orange Order is a Protestant community organisation in the way that the Ku Klux Klan is a white community organisation.

Campbell MacGregor Glasgow

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