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But even old-fashioned puritans have the right as citizens to protest the behavior of their president.
In 1648 a group of English Puritans from Bermuda, led by William Sayle, sailed to Bahamian waters and established the first permanent European settlement on the island they named Eleutheria (now Eleuthera) after the Greek word for freedom.
The Puritans substituted such names for the others because they did not believe in honoring, as they would have put it, Popish saints.
And they know they shouldn't be sexual puritans.
The Puritans who settled Massachusetts made it a crime to celebrate the holiday (punishment: five shillings).