The Tea "Party" vs. our Founding Fathers

[ehrnst]

(A) Paine was an atheist, Jefferson a theist and polyglot, Franklin a published scientist. Madison and Hamilton read and debated the merits of Athenian law, and Mason insisted on the separation of church and state.


(B) Sarah Palin has been purged of the influence of witches by her pastor and Christine O'Donnell has totally rejected Satanism.

[texastoast]

1. ...

What a world! What a world! :crazy:

[baldguy]

2. The Sons of Liberty in the original Boston Tea Party weren't protesting high taxes

The tea tax imposed by the Crown was actually lower than the colonial taxes it replaced.

What the original Tea Party was protesting was that the tax was imposed on them - they had no say in the types & amounts of the taxes they had to pay. The colonists weren't looking for less govt; they were demanding MORE govt. The rallying cry was "No Taxation Without Representation!", not "No Taxation!" period.

[ehrnst]

3. The Founding Fathers would never, ever be accepted into the modern Tea Party.

They were intellectuals, and not beholden to religion. They saw the effects of religious extremism in Europe, and in the history of the colonies.