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==History== | ==History== | ||
===Foundation=== | ===Foundation=== | ||
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 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=== | ||
At its height in 1994, the ACL claimed it could put millions on the streets and boasted a membership in the hundreds of thousands. [[Chul Lung Qua]] made regular appearances in state television and was frequently invited to rallies by PCD politicians. Blockading and picketing Catholic shops, pelting churches with eggs and paint while police looked on impassively, the ACL felt stronger than ever. Little did its leaders know the League had been instrumentalized by the Party, with much of its mobilization power actually provided by government agencies and with its finances buoyed by shady PCD funds. The Party had decided to do away with religion altogether and the loudness of the League was one of the tools used to make it seem unavoidable and necessary. During the Great Summer March, the ACL made a big spectacle of sending a delegation to the People's Assembly to present a legislative initiative that would ban all religious practice. With the Party graciously accepting the will of the masses and duly voting it through, the text having been redacted in the offices of the Ministry of Interior all along, the League made itself redundant. | At its height in 1994, the ACL claimed it could put millions on the streets and boasted a membership in the hundreds of thousands. [[Chul Lung Qua]] made regular appearances in state television and was frequently invited to rallies by PCD politicians. Blockading and picketing Catholic shops, pelting churches with eggs and paint while police looked on impassively, the ACL felt stronger than ever. Little did its leaders know the League had been instrumentalized by the Party, with much of its mobilization power actually provided by government agencies and with its finances buoyed by shady PCD funds. The Party had decided to do away with religion altogether and the loudness of the League was one of the tools used to make it seem unavoidable and necessary. During the Great Summer March, the ACL made a big spectacle of sending a delegation to the People's Assembly to present a legislative initiative that would ban all religious practice. With the Party graciously accepting the will of the masses and duly voting it through, the text having been redacted in the offices of the Ministry of Interior all along, the League made itself redundant. | ||