Cade wrote:
I am descended on both sides of my family from men who fought in the Revolutionary War against the British.
On my mother's side, two of my grand aunts were rejected for membership to the Daughters of the Revolution because there are also anarchists, religious dissenters, and people who married interracially in our family line too.
On my father's side, I am decended from one of Lafayette's French officers who came with him to America (even on the same ship) to fight the Brits.
On my father's side, I am distantly related to Jack Kerouac.
How can they reject religious dissenters? The Pilgrim Fathers were dissenters, the Puritans and the Quakers were dissenters, and Jefferson was an accursed deistic freethinker, who wanted to cut out everything but the direct speech of Jesus from the Bible! And on what grounds do they object to interracial marriages? Probably a silly question on my part. Admittedly, some of Jefferson's views were what would be considered decidedly racist today, but if they reject dissenters, why would they listen to him on that subject... then again, rejecting dissenters, maybe they feel justified in rejecting the whole "all men [sic; should be human beings I know] are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights...etc. (please tell me if I am mixing up the declaration of independence with the preamble to your constitution; I am not American - mind you, I probably should know more about our own constitution) but then how would they justify calling themselves "Daughters of the Revolution"? I suppose rejecting anarchists and their kin is of a piece with their general bigotry. Interesting about the link to the French, allies of American Revolutionaries... Genealogy is interesting. History is fascinating.
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