The Filter^: Yuschenko Wins!

Viva the Orange Revolution. I'm very busy with a project called "The Orange Path", tapping into the positive ideological bent of liberal, constrained democracy. As expected, the religious issues are prickly, not only because my fiancee is a Catholic, and I am a lapsed atheist.

My position is that William III was liberal and Protestant, and the Glorious Revolution, and subsequent Battle of the Boyne were triumphs of parliamentary rule over authoritarian Monarchy - a relative improvement. As the timeline of Northern Ireland extends, the Protestantism was more central than the liberty. The Orange Order is thus loosely related to William since Protestantism is only a subset of liberalism, and only in contrast to the Catholic rule at the time. Victors in the war, they have forgotten that the original purpose was religious tolerence.

Hence Orangeism can be rescued for liberalism, without affiliating itself to the events in Northern Ireland.

Here is the The Parable of the Orange Tree, and I'll leave you with the words of Pastor George Wise:

If they take away St. Domingo Pit just because 400 0r 500 yards from the Pit there is a Bishop's house. where can we speak in the open air? You cannot go to Stanley Park after sunset, and the Pit is situated in a Protestant center which literally smells of Orange. I do not say the Battle of the Boyne was fought there, but I do say a battle for Protestants is being fought there at this moment, and we in the name of God intend to conquer.