What is meant by the quote The Rebels are our countrymen again"?

The ideas of led to the founding of the democratic party.

Which of these statements best describes the ambiguity in this excerpt

Why was galileo galilei brought before the inquisition? for insisting that earth stands still at the center of the universe for proving that planets move in elliptical orbits for putting forth evidence that earth moves around the sun for suggesting that the sun is a star