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==History== | ==History== | ||
===Foundation=== | ===Foundation=== | ||
[[File:Chul_Lung_Qua.png|thumb|[[Chul Lung Qua]], Founder of the ACL]] | |||
The Anti-Catholic League was formed in 1993 after an explosion of public outrage and demonstrations caused by the ruling in an [[Urcea]]n court against Corummese businessman [[Chul Lung Qua]], on the matter of his underage daughter converting to christianity and being granted religious asylum. The ruling was seen variously as a stain on national honor, as a theft of Corummese women to marry them off to western Christians and as a slap in the face of Corumm's millenarian civilization. Several small nationalist and anti-Catholic associations, secretly prodded by the [[Party of Corummese Democrats]], banded together under the leadership of Mr. Qua to push for the criminalization of the Catholic faith. Among the groups that merged into the ACL was the National Front for the Defense of National Values, the Family Protection League and the 16th of February Militant Front. | The Anti-Catholic League was formed in 1993 after an explosion of public outrage and demonstrations caused by the ruling in an [[Urcea]]n court against Corummese businessman [[Chul Lung Qua]], on the matter of his underage daughter converting to christianity and being granted religious asylum. The ruling was seen variously as a stain on national honor, as a theft of Corummese women to marry them off to western Christians and as a slap in the face of Corumm's millenarian civilization. Several small nationalist and anti-Catholic associations, secretly prodded by the [[Party of Corummese Democrats]], banded together under the leadership of Mr. Qua to push for the criminalization of the Catholic faith. Among the groups that merged into the ACL was the National Front for the Defense of National Values, the Family Protection League and the 16th of February Militant Front. | ||
===Apogee=== | ===Apogee=== | ||
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The passage of the Religious Law of 94 was the crowning achievement of the ACL and also its death knell. Within months, the ACL would begin to see its public activities severely constrained. Attempts by the ACL to help enforce the new law were fiercely rebuffed. Permits for public acts stopped being approved, audits began raining down from the tax authorities, activists soon found themselves being clobbered and arrested on the streets by especially vicious police officers. As the crackdown intensified, ACL President [[Chul Lung Qua]] was forced to appear on national television and denounce his own organization for excesses and mistakes committed, in the first instance of nationally televised self-criticism. Shortly after and under threat of arrest, a humiliated Qua would be forced to resign from the ACL, although he kept his Party membership. In his place was put a complete unknown bureaucrat by the name of Barbas Chang who would massively wind down the ACL's organizational structure and size. | The passage of the Religious Law of 94 was the crowning achievement of the ACL and also its death knell. Within months, the ACL would begin to see its public activities severely constrained. Attempts by the ACL to help enforce the new law were fiercely rebuffed. Permits for public acts stopped being approved, audits began raining down from the tax authorities, activists soon found themselves being clobbered and arrested on the streets by especially vicious police officers. As the crackdown intensified, ACL President [[Chul Lung Qua]] was forced to appear on national television and denounce his own organization for excesses and mistakes committed, in the first instance of nationally televised self-criticism. Shortly after and under threat of arrest, a humiliated Qua would be forced to resign from the ACL, although he kept his Party membership. In his place was put a complete unknown bureaucrat by the name of Barbas Chang who would massively wind down the ACL's organizational structure and size. | ||
==Activities== | ==Activities== | ||
The current castrated form of the Anti-Catholic League is a dim shadow of its former self, with membership not exceeding 8,000 members nationwide and with sclerotic mobilization and convocation capabilities. The ACL does limited distribution of pamphlets, usually related to the benefits of a secular lifestyle. They also hold monthly meetings to discuss world developments, play bingo and sell vintage ACL paraphernalia. | |||
[[File:Virgil superstar.jpg|thumb|ACL merch stand]] | |||
==Leaders== | ==Leaders== | ||
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