Would America still have values if Catholics did not take away our values?

before you try to ban me let me say this, I am not a catholic basher, i don't agree with the religion but their are Catholics I can deal with, Senater Joe MacCarthy, William F Buckley, Musolini, Franco, Jean Marie La Pen, Jorg Haider, Pinochet, Pat Buchanan, Father Coughlin and severel others but I ask this in all sincereness ---did America's moral decline happen after we let Catholics in politics? Kennedy, before him we had no 60s, no hippys, no , no drugs, no protests but after we had all those things-----John Kerry, with him we got abortion and socialist medicine in masachusettes. I am just saying maybe catholics are OK for other countrys but in America it seems like we went downhill after they got in. what do you think?