Shrike
7hr ago
The New Testament condemns sexual activity outside of marriage, mistreating slaves, and deviant sexual practices. It doesn't say something like "sex slaves are banned" because the things it explicitly enjoins rules out sex slavery. (True, I suppose a first century Christian could buy a sex slave and...treat them in a chaste and kind manner, but at that point I'd say they were a former sex slave.)
It's as if I said "I think using force to harm other people outside of the due process of law is wrong" and you said "you'll notice that Shrike never condemns murder."
The fact that we're having to go over the basic sexual ethics of the largest religion on earth instead of arguing about anything Marx said is frankly a better refutation of your argument than anything I've said here. (Although I will say that it's making me want to suggest the Didache should be on a school reading list rather than anything that's technically from Scripture.)
I think it's a bit more complicated than this, at least for Founding-era Americans: plenty of people didn't like Catholics and public schools at the time in most places (where they had been established) were probably going to give you generic Protestantism as a baseline, but at the federal level there was pretty clearly an interest in making sure Catholics (which were a substantial minority - recall Maryland was set up as a Catholic refugee colony) were able to serve in federal office and were not persecuted by the federal government.
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