Yes, I would find that subtly insulting. As a practicing Catholic, if I am to lead others to what I believe is the fullness of Christian faith, I do so through example and attempts to get the two churches to see eye-to-eye on certain things (for a start, and for my part).
Protestants are protestants because they want to be, whether or not that changes in the future. Completely invalidating all of their choices up to the present, and presenting them a scenario in which they should choose anything but what they currently believe and practice ājust becauseā? I cannot see the value, sorry. Many of the responses here seem to concur.
And further, to say it was done in order to lighten the āanti-Protestant moodā on the boards, after the above explanation? This is why I think it could simply be naiveā¦I donāt know Clever User Name enough to know if thereās anything else behind the idea, and I choose not to believe so without good reason. Cleverās, rather snippy little comments in the first of the thread, to those who didnāt think highly of the whole thing, donāt seem to me to be in the spirit of reducing āanti-Protestant moodā on the board, however.