I told this story somewhere else, but it bears repeating. I used to go out with a lovely girl when I was a young man. Her father made her stop seeing me. I went to him, explained that I thought the world of his daughter, treated her with respect and dignity and that I was not such a bad person. He responded by telling me that he had two reasons for making her stop dating me. 1) I was Irish. 2) I was Catholic. We continued to see each other on the sly, but it was too difficult and we eventually drifted apart. This was not an isolated incident. I can remember other occasions growing up where I ran into this type of discrimination.

Mick