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To: epicure who wrote (119636)	6/12/2005 4:12:17 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793843

Actually some of the Founding Fathers believed in forcing others to support their religion. One example is Patrick Henry, who was a strong believer that everybody in Virginia should pay a tithe to the Anglican church. I've seen reprints of the tithing rolls - in fact, everybody (even Catholics, Jews, Baptists, and so forth) did pay a tithe to the Anglican church for close to 200 years, until the Virginia Declaration of Rights was passed. Non-Anglicans paid lower taxes and widows were given a break but still had to pay something. Nothing like paying taxes to concentrate the mind on ways to get out of it, it's almost as good for concentration as the prospect of being hanged in the morning.