Massachusetts Republicans lost control of the state House of Representatives in 1948 because they managed to get themselves seen as taking an anti-Catholic position on birth control.
Now, many Republicans in the state are demanding that a Catholic chairman of the party disavow Catholic teaching about marriage and children or resign.
Republican members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives gave party chairman Jim Lyons an ultimatum: condemn a conservative state GOP committee member for expressing a conservative point of view or resign.
Lyons addressed the topic in a statement late Friday night, acknowledging the clamor but rejecting what he called "all forms of censorship, and especially the 'cancel culture' mentality that exists today."
