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From: "Katherine Ricker" <>
Subject: Re: [Huguenot] Huguenot Society of America?
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 11:29:46 -0700


Well said! Well said! I applaud you. - K

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Subject: Re: [Huguenot] Huguenot Society of America?


> Regarding Huguenots and religion
> Governor Kieft granted Lady Deborah Moody a patent granting freedom of
> religion. (1646?) Then Governor Stuyvesant gave permission that the 27
> Jewish refugees live and work in the colony. (1654?) In 1657 the Flushing
> Remonstrance was signed in support of the Quaker residents. Peter
Stuyvesant
> engaged in a heads on battle with John Bowne, a Quaker. He put John Bowne
in
> a dungeon and ultimately sent him to Holland for a trial. The Dutch West
> Indies Company had sent a letter supporting freedom of religion before
Bowne
> got there and at his trial voted in favor of the patent given Lady Moody.
> They effectively told Stuyvesant to lay-off.
>
> Our constitution could not have been written without the benefit of over a
> century of various religions living side by side The divisive religious
bent
> was no longer part of the fabric of our lives. I have always been
thankful
> the leaders in the constitutional convention were Masons or supported
Masonic
> concepts. We are left with a document that has religious freedom as a
> foundation.
>
> As I enter the 21st century my Huguenot ancestors would applaud the work I
am
> doing in infusing an ethical component in technology systems, in creating
a
> mechanism for global peace, and contributing new jobs streams to our
economy.
> I have a major work on the framework on the constitution. A part of the
> system included reverse arrows of time, the Huguenots who are my ancestors
> are included in the model for global peace.
>
> Any descendant who perpetrates a fixed-closed system excluding descendants
> based on religion is hearing a different drumbeat than I am. Furthermore
> when I questioned the policy, I received a personal attack from the
president
> . His response sends chills through my spine and it is exactly what I am
> against.
>
> If you do want an exclusionary society, I suggest you make a list of the
> actual beliefs that were held in the Dutch Reformed Church in 1640 to 1664
> and have every member sign the statement. It would exclude not only
> individuals like me but Protestants who do not have exactly the same
beliefs.
> If you are going to be exclusionary, do it meaningfully. I think that is
an
> oxymoron.
>
> I work every day of my life to bring great honor to my ancestors. I
believe
> it is through the collective merit of my ancestors that I have been
granted
> the opportunity to bring great good into this planet. There is not one
> minute I do not respect their direct connection to God, their basic
kindness.
> and the zest in their lives. As far as I can tell my ancestors did not
> accept the status quo and were always creating life in these United States
> anew. The Huguenots came here as did most of the early colonists to
escape
> religious oppression. The good part is despite their personal beliefs and
> hardships, they granted the first religious freedom to others.
>
> I am vibrantly connected to my Huguenot ancestors and I am not a
Protestant.
> Lynn Phifer
>
>
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