He also, since he was an englightened gentleman, reduced the penalty in the state of Virginia from execution to merely castration and banishment, IIRC.
The learned men of his day never envisioned that the USA would degrade to barbaric perversion and that it would be the cultural norm, nor that people would use his words as justification for tolerating (what to speak of promoting or “celebrating”) public nudity, sodomy, slutdom and the rest. They assumed that the basic moral standards would be understood and continue to be the cultural standards.
I HAVE To preview. Sorry, my first comment above should read:
He also, since he was an englightened gentleman, reduced the penalty for sodomy in the state of Virginia from execution to merely castration and banishment, IIRC.
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We boycott places like that until they implode. Then we can go back in and clean up the mess.