Myths and Facts About the Orange Order
Short
Chronology of the Orange Order
Brief
History of the Orange Order
Guide to the Public Proclamations Bill (from IOWC)
Reports on the Orange
Order and their Marches:
For God and Ulster: an alternative view of the loyal orders - Pat Finucane Centre
In the Line of Fire – July 1996 - Pat Finucane Centre
The Misrule of Law - Committee for the Administration of Justice
The Orange Promise:
All candidates wishing to join
the Orange Order are asked to make the following promise - a promise which
demonstrates the religious bigotry and sheer hypocrisy of the Orange Order,
despite denials of such from its proponents. The promise is as follows:
Do you promise, before this Lodge, to give no
countenance, by your presence or otherwise, to the unscriptural, superstitious,
and idolatrous worship of the Church of Rome? And do you also promise never to
marry a Roman Catholic, never to stand sponsor for a child when receiving
baptism from a priest of Rome, nor allow a Roman Catholic to stand sponsor for
your child at baptism? And do you further promise to resist, by all lawful
means, the ascendancy, extension and encroachments of that Church; at the same
time being careful always to abstain from all unkind words and actions towards
its members, yea, even prayerfully and diligently, as opportunity occurs, to use
your best efforts to deliver them from error and false doctrine, and lead them
to the truth of that Holy Word, which is able to make them wise unto salvation?
Flyer distributed by Unionists and
supporters of the Orange Order during the Summer 1997 Siege
. . . and after 9 Catholic churches had been burned:
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