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Joshua Norton's avatar

I've been doing some heavy family research on Ancestry.com and discovered that one of my ancestors signed the Declaration of Independence. So to all you "Love It or Leave It" wingnuts out there, have a happy 4th on me and my family.

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Dripping as it is may be with self-contradiction, it's hard not to feel one's heart leap up when reading old Tom's Declaration:

<blockquote>When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.</blockquote> But wait a minute..."Laws of Nature and Nature's God"? What kind of Deist (= atheist) bullshit is that?

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