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To: jla
“Read the Virginia Code as revised by Thom. Jefferson, Geo. Mason, Geo. Wythe, and Edmund Pendleton. Part of Jefferson's assignation concerned the laws and penalties for homosexuals.”

“Thomas Jefferson owned over 600 slaves.”

“Wythe provided for his slaves, Lydia Broadnax and her son Michael Brown, in his will. The will also contained a provision for Brown's education. Jefferson biographer Fawn M. Brodie has alleged Broadnax was Wythe’s concubine, and Brown was his son. Wythe’s other heir, his grand-nephew, George Wythe Sweeney, decided to avoid this dilution of his fortune by poisoning the slaves with arsenic. In the process, he killed Wythe as well, though Wythe lingered long enough to change his will to eliminate his bequest to his murderer. In Sweeney's trial he was acquitted of murder in Virginia, primarily because of a law that forbade the testimony of black witnesses, a law Wythe ironically had himself penned.”

“A Virginia planter, Georg Mason owned many black slaves.”

Edmund Pendleton, while not a slave owner as being born of modest means, did have this to say...”The king’s representatives in the colony hath not only withheld all the powers of government from operating for our safety, but, having retired on board an armed ship, is carrying on a piratical and savage war against us tempting our slaves by every artifice to resort to him, and training and employing them against their masters.”

Hmmm. So according to your advice, we should all be keeping slaves or at least pass laws to keep them from testifying in court, you know, because our founding fathers were right, correct and moral in any opinion they held 200+ years ago. Do you have any idea how stupid you can look when you use the "founding fathers" as support when you venture outside the realm of anything non constitutional construction? No, I'm sure you don't.

133 posted on 12/21/2009 4:35:01 PM PST by Bob J
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To: Bob J
No, sir, NO SIRREEE -- I don't want any slaves; however, when I go to bed tonight, I'd love to wake up and find out that the Scotch Irish wee folk Brownies came out of hiding and cleaned my house for Christmas, and got all the final goodies prepared, and cooked or baked.

The little wee Scotch Irish week folk Brownies are house fairies, you see.

135 posted on 12/21/2009 4:51:00 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: Bob J
You try so hard to come across as intellectually and morally superior to others. I'd say you're a very insecure person.

Moving forward, does the fact that Jefferson owned slaves (nowhere near 600 by the way) negate the Declaration of Independence? Is the Constitution null and void because its chief author, Madison, owned slaves?
And you conveniently fail to reply on the unambiguous references to God in those documents.
Speaking of God, are you aware that He sanctioned slavery? If you're not perhaps the Old Testament should be included on your reading schedule. God also doesn't appear to suffer homosexuals very well. Fortunately, like all sinners, even those who are pretentious blowhards :), they can change and get to be in Heaven.
Though God does not ask us to condone, tacitly or not, the ways of the sinner.

So, if you want to attend CPAC with GOProud group, knock yourself out. Do not censure others who won't buy into your phony, holier-than-thou pretense.

Have a GREAT day, Bob!

158 posted on 12/21/2009 6:24:53 PM PST by jla ("Free Republic is Palin Country" - JimRob)
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