CNN Town Hall with Joe Biden on right now....

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63. One thing that's going to rankle a few people...

...is his referring to St. John’s as “a Protestant church.” Lots of Episcopalians, probably a majority, consider their denomination to be “reformed Catholic,” deeply dislike being lumped in as “Protestant” (which they connect to right-wing evangelicals), and get really annoyed when Roman Catholics dismiss the Episcopal Church, as has been done repeatedly over the ages, in a derogatory way as “just another group of Protestant schismatics and heretics.” It won’t sit well with some Episcopalians to see a Roman Catholic candidate go out of his way to describe their parish as “a Protestant church” – why not just “a church?”