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To: Texaggie79
You think Thomas Jefferson would support a witch in keeping his or her child?

Yes.

"...our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry..."
- Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson's Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in the State of Virginia

230 posted on 02/19/2002 12:36:03 PM PST by freeeee
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To: freeeee
Ah but witchcraft was not considered a religion.

All attempts to delude the people, or to abuse their understanding by exercise of the pretended arts of witchcraft, conjuration, inchantment, or sorcery or by pretended prophecies, shall be punished by ducking and whipping at the discretion of a jury, not exceeding 15. stripes.

Thomas Jefferson, A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments 1778Papers 2:492--504

231 posted on 02/19/2002 12:41:03 PM PST by Texaggie79
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