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Date Posted: 08:48:11 09/14/11 Wed
Author: George
Subject: Thomas Jefferson on Sodomy

http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/gaynor/060605

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Such as Jefferson's letter to Edmund Pendleton, written on August 26, 1776.

"The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes...was never mine. It is only the sanguinary hue of our penal laws which I meant to object to. Punishments I know are necessary, and I would provide them strict and inflexible, but proportioned to the crime. Death might be inflicted for murder and perhaps for treason, [but I] would take out of the description of treason all crimes which are not such in their nature. Rape, buggery, etc., punish by castration. All other crimes by working on high roads, rivers, gallies, etc., a certain time proportioned to the offence... Laws thus proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the lawgiver, but let the judge be a mere machine. The mercies of the law will be dispensed equally and impartially to every description of men; those of the judge or of the executive power will be the eccentric impulses of whimsical, capricious designing man." � Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Pendleton, 1776. Papers 1:505 (Emphasis added.)

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It is just another function of the two-faced nature of liberalism that it has mentally added Jefferson's comments on "a wall of separation between church and state" to the Constitution (when in fact it is nowhere found there,) but steadfastly refuses to understand that if everything Jefferson ever wrote should be considered authoritative regarding the interpretation of the Constitution, then homosexuality has to go.

Thus, liberalism abuses Jefferson's personal letters, using them as authority to keep religious understanding of sodomy out of the public forum, but then ignores the fact that the very authority they cite to disengage religious opinion on the subject also condemns in no uncertain terms the very practices they seek to justify.

I know that a lot of people object to being called liberal wackos, tyrants, and abusers, but its time that, like the alcoholic and the drug abuser, they woke up and realized what they really are. Delusion cannot go on forever. I seriously doubt that anybody would get on a bus driven by a 14 year old blind teenager who sincerely believed he was a bus driver. But a large number of politically active Americans are just as delusional, and just as determined to drive the bus.

You can easily spot the bus. In Independence, it usually has a picture of a little kid, a lion, and a lamb on it.

George

"Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western culture's got to go."
Jesse Jackson's chant on the Palo Alto campus of Stanford.

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