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To: ChurtleDawg
I have read of the controversy about Sally Hemmings, if this is what you're referring to. I'm not sure the issue (no pun intended) is settled. I head there might have been one child, and that the relationship was a mutual one.

Even if this is true (which, afaik, is not certain, but I could be wrong) does not change anything.

So you're saying his writings mean nothing since he was guilty of miscegenation?
247 posted on 12/07/2006 10:58:35 AM PST by little jeremiah
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To: little jeremiah

I believe scientists using DNA were able to link sally hemming's descendants to Thomas Jefferson beyond a reasonable doubt.
It also was well known in his time; The Federalists, particularly John Adams and his allies, used it to blacken Jefferson's reputation

If you use him as an example of righteous behavior, I can also show that he was a slaveowning deadbeat dad responsible for fatherless children

And where in ANY of Thomas Jefferson's, james Madison's, or John Adam's writings do you find any policy statements about lesbian couples having children?


312 posted on 12/07/2006 11:33:15 AM PST by ChurtleDawg (kill em all)
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