He stated Massachusetts was first to legalize Slavery, and cited the
Massachusetts Body of Liberties.
There shall never be any bond slavery, villeinage, or captivity amongst us unless it be lawful captives taken in just wars, and such strangers as willingly sell themselves or are sold to us. And these shall have all the liberties and Christian usages which the law of God established in Israel concerning such persons cloth morally require. This exempts none from servitude who shall be judged thereto by authority.

The law established in Israel was:
Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.

This seems consistent with indentured servitude, voluntary or not.
The other instance was about John Punch, he was sentenced for a crime, the circumstances of the case were not known, the court sentenced him based on the whole case. He was not a slave but serving a form of incarceration. Anthony Johnson held the first Legal Slave. John Casor committed no crime yet he was forced into lifetime servitude. See Johnson v Parker

Sincerely,
Jeffrey M Schloo

You are a real Southern Gentleman and may God bless you.

I think I now have a firm idea of the future direction we’ll be taking. In a nutshell, the original objectives of Confederate Colonel will be combined with what you read in I’ll Take My Stand, along with the How-to articles in the Southern Agrarian blog. I’ll be fleshing it out and coming up with a more concise set of written objectives in the next few days.

Thank you for stopping by and commenting. You are an encouragement to me, sir.

I have read and absorbed “I’ll Take My Stand” I applaud your idea for the third blog and look forward to it. As for the HATERS they will always be with us no matter WHAT you STAND for. You and I both know you cannot argue someone to Christ. You can tell them what the Lord has given us in his Word, you can explain how you understand it, and you can tell them what the Lord has done for you. Beyond that it is up to HIM.they will hate you or love you just as they did HIM.

I offer you my admiration and encouragement. If any other form of assistance would be of help, please let me know. CRR

That’s a brief but fairly complete outline – I’ll post more detail as soon as I get it all sorted out. Again, my sincere thanks to each of you.

As a southern lady, I do enjoy your blog and hope it continues. I like reading the articles on manners, southern history, and gentle living. There is so much hate and ugliness in the world today that I tend to gravitate towards the more serene as I grow older. I like reading a good article on quiet, southern living.
Please keep up the good work of writing about the slower, pleasant and simpler days of the South. Mr. Robert E. Lee would be proud!

Regards,

A Southern Lady

I take the Holy Bible as my final authority. If you have an argument, then that argument would rightly be with God and not those who proclaim His word. You are absolutely right – “sin is sin” and the sin of homosexuality (what The Bible calls “vile affections” which was practiced by “Sodomites”) is, in God’s eyes, on the same level as adultery and fornication (which is what a practicing “Sodomite” is also guilty of). No one goes to hell for practicing homosexuality – they go to hell for rejecting God’s sacrifice of His Son to pay for those sins (all sins, not just “vile affections”).

Regarding your comment about Levitical Law: it applied to one nation – the Old Testament Hebrew people, who were God’s chosen people – and to no one else. Most of the heresies throughout history (including many today) are the result of not understanding that basic concept. The Law was given to the Hebrews (the Jews) by God through Moses, and it was for them only. It does not apply to me unless that same law is commanded in the New Testament (which many are).

Let me be very clear here – I am a sinner, or perhaps more properly, I am a SINNER. It is in my nature as a descendent of Adam, and I have absolutely no hope of ever “earning” my way to heaven through my actions or efforts. None. The only way I – and you and everyone else – will get to heaven is to truly repent of my sins and put my trust entirely in the shed blood of Jesus Christ. I cannot get there any other way. Repentance means to turn away, so if one continues to commit what he knows to be a sin and has no remorse and tries to claim that it really isn’t a sin because he has “peace about it” and thinks it’s OK, then that is open defiance of God.

Now, coming from someone who believes the above with all his heart, which action would be considered hatred?
1) Telling people that trusting solely in Jesus for the salvation of your soul is the only way to heaven, and without that your eternal soul will burn in a literal hell.
– or –
2) Keeping silent, so as not to upset anyone, and knowing for an absolute fact that those conscious souls will spend an eternity in hell – burning in a literal lake of fire.

Now, with all that said, this blog is not about bashing anyone. It is, however, about protecting and preserving the culture. Activist homosexuality is about tearing down an important part of that culture and redefining what is and is not socially acceptable. If the case calls for it, I will continue to be a very harsh critic of those who promote the homosexual agenda. What someone does in the privacy of their own home is their business and I am quite content to be just as kind and polite to them as anyone else. I will not, however, pretend that it is OK.

I welcome your participation here, but I will continue to stand up for what is right. There is one other gentleman who is a regular reader and commenter here who is openly homosexual. We have had numerous very cordial conversations, and I consider him to be a true Southern gentleman. We both respect each other’s position on the matter.

I think we have both made our point, and I consider this to be the end of the discussion.

Your article on the kerosene brooder reminds me that there are plans on the web for a kerosene powered incubator. I haven’t tried that approach yet (although I’ve tinkered with a solar powered incubator), but I like the idea.

Thank you again for commenting.