These kinds of isolated and random statements betray a purpose in serious scholarship and inquiry especially as it relates to an established and organic body of evidence as communicated in prior posts. Invective, as is “internet-research” for disparate strands of remarks is a poor substitute to rebut historical facts and conduct.
"McLeroy is a robust, cheerful and inexorable man, whose personality is perhaps typified by the framed letter T on the wall of his office, which he earned as a “yell leader” (Texas A&M nomenclature for cheerleader) in his undergraduate days in the late 1960s. “I consider myself a Christian fundamentalist,” he announced almost as soon as we sat down. He also identifies himself as a young-earth creationist who believes that the earth was created in six days, as the book of Genesis has it, less than 10,000 years ago. "
“The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough, too, in their opinion.”
Source: Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Benjamin Rush, Sept. 23, 1800.
