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- From: merlyn@digibd.digibd.com (Merlyn LeRoy)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Soul of the Republican Party
- Message-ID: <merlyn.725642702@digibd>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 15:25:02 GMT
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- dlhanson@nap.amoco.com (David L. Hanson) writes:
- >Actually, while President of the United States, Jefferson also became first
- >president of the Washington, D.C. public school board, which used the
- >Bible and Watt's Hymnal as reading texts in the classroom - well subsequent
- >to the adoption of the First Amendment. According to Jefferson:
- >
- > I have always said, and always will say, that the studious perusal of
- > the sacred volume will make us better citizens.
-
- Did he use his rewrite of the bible? You know, the one Jefferson published
- with all the miracles removed...
-
- >The first amendment has only been "stepped on" in this century by the
- >enemies of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
-
- Ah, the old "my enemies are god's enemies" bit; sorry, I don't believe
- in your pretend friend.
-
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- Merlyn LeRoy
-