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To: Nathan Zachary
Either you are lying, or you are just ignorant. Which is it?

"In his autobiography, Jefferson recounted with satisfaction that in the struggle to pass his landmark Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom (1786), the Virginia legislature "rejected by a great majority" an effort to limit the bill's scope "in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan." George Washington suggested a way for Muslims to "obtain proper relief" from a proposed Virginia bill, laying taxes to support Christian worship. On another occasion, the first president declared that he would welcome "Mohometans" to Mount Vernon if they were "good workmen" (see page 96). Officials in Massachusetts were equally insistent that their influential Constitution of 1780 afforded "the most ample liberty of conscience … to Deists, Mahometans, Jews and Christians," a point that Chief Justice Theophilus Parsons resoundingly affirmed in 1810."

Source: The Library Of Congress

210 posted on 01/26/2007 1:37:08 PM PST by presidio9 (There is something wonderful about a country that produces a brave and humble man like Wesley Autrey)
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To: presidio9

You're good..........!!!!


213 posted on 01/26/2007 1:41:34 PM PST by Jeffrey_D. (Seek first to understand, then to be understood)
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To: presidio9

Really? Seems that is someone narritive you've posted, not Jeffersons Autobiograghy.


217 posted on 01/26/2007 1:44:56 PM PST by Nathan Zachary
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