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To: RMF who wrote (56884)	10/16/2012 9:29:46 AM
From: Peter Dierks	1 Recommendation Respond to of 71588

You need to stop buying the disinformation fed to you by wingnuts. Our Founding Fathers risked life and limb for religious freedom. Religious freedom was the primary motivating factor for most of the early settlers. By the time of our Revolutionary War, religiousness had become firmly entrenched into the daily lives of almost every American. It is certainly true that some did not choose to live inside of a then traditional Christian church community and instead called themselves Diests. Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) was a Founding Father and the person most responsible for the wording of the Constitution, as the head of the Committee on Style. He also spoke more at the Constitutional Convention than any other delegate. Born in New York, Morris was educated by French Huguenots and graduated from King's College (now Columbia University). He was once defeated in an election because he was suspected of being pro-British in the 1770s. Morris helped finance the Revolutionary War, however, and he was an advocate for a strong central government afterwards, including election of a president for life. An Episcopalian, Morris had a deep faith in God and felt that He intervenes in the world. Some Credit Thomas Jefferson with writing the Constitution, he read the Bible daily. For some reason I expect the truth, despite being proven to you, to fail to stick with you.