To: Modernman
The founding fathers understood that liberty might well lead to free people doing things that the majority don't like. In a free society, you have to take the good with the bad.
Right. That's why Thomas Jefferson signed a Virginia bill assigning castration as the punishment for sodomy. Good libertarian deist that he was.
577 posted on
05/20/2005 11:27:14 AM PDT by
Antoninus
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To: Antoninus
That's why Thomas Jefferson signed a Virginia bill assigning castration as the punishment for sodomy. Good libertarian deist that he was.He also owned slaves. The founding fathers weren't gods.
To: Antoninus
Right. That's why Thomas Jefferson signed a Virginia bill assigning castration as the punishment for sodomy. Good libertarian deist that he was. Even TJ wasn't perfect. As smart as he was, he was still a product of his times and held many of the same predjudices as his contemporaries. He owned slaves, for example.
589 posted on
05/20/2005 11:36:58 AM PDT by
Modernman
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