PART 8
EARLY AMERICA
***, MARRIAGE, CHILDREN, GAYS, LESBIANS, BOYS AS GIRLS, ABORTION,
BREECHING, FAMILY AND OTHER MYTHS
At about six years of age boys were BREECHED. This involved removing them
from their dresses and stays, shaving their heads and fitting wigs, giving
them clothing befitting an adult male of their station and expecting them
to act like young adults. The social implications of breeching changed
with
time. In the early years, boys were not yet men until they passed through
adolescence. In the middle and later periods, breeching fully initiated
them into the world of men.
SOURCE: The Writer's Guide, Everyday Life in Colonial America From 1607 -
1783. Dale Taylor. Weiter's Digest Books (1997) p. 131
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Breeching Boys
http://histclo.usanethosting.com/style/skirted/dress/breech.html
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The status of boys in English society changed over the period. Until they
were breeched, boys were considered women. After adolescence they were
men.
In the intervening years they were neither during the early period. With
time, breeching came to signify acceptance as men. This change occurred in
England about 1680, but until then, boys were a perfectly acceptable
outlet
for male ***uality. Since the prevailing English view of ***uality was
based in power and the submission to power, no man would willingly submit
to another man. A boy, however, who was less than a man and may have been
considered a woman, was under no stigma at all in providing ***, and no
male lost any standing by taking it. This places special relevance on the
boys sent to Virginia in 1607 and other early settlements, but would
surely
have run afoul of the New England strictures against nonprocreative ***,
although the aristocratic nature of Chesapeake society almost assuredly
meant English aristocratic practices were continued without comment.
Needless to say, the records contain little about pederasty.
SOURCE: The Writer's Guide, Everyday Life in Colonial America From 1607 -
1783. Dale Taylor. Weiter's Digest Books (1997) pp. 127-28
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The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
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all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why
"a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v.
Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
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almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
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