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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve
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To: Carolyn who wrote (2064)11/12/2000 7:34:50 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 6710
 
Yesterday I visited the Library of Congress to view their exhibit about Thomas Jefferson, which is ending on November 16. One of the documents on view was his draft of Virginia's Religious Freedom Act, adopted 1786. So in Virginia we've had separation of church and state for 214 years. One of the reasons I love Virginia.

Jefferson's epitaph -

Here was buried
Thomas Jefferson
Author of the Declaration of American Independence
of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom
& Father of the University of Virginia

By the way, I think I know why we have separation of church and state in Virginia. Before this was enacted, everyone living in Virginia had to pay a tax, a tithe, if you will, to the Episcopal Church. Papists and widow women paid less. I did not realize this, but chanced upon Loudoun County's tithing rolls while in the land records. I don't know the particulars, but I am sure that Jefferson, a Unitarian who had money troubles all his life, found this tax particularly irksome.
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