Religious liberty in American history
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ambitious_wench"On 21 May (1638) the town of Providence considered Verin's case and decided that he had breached "a covenant for restraining of the liberty of conscience". The town then voted to disenfranchise him. Winthrop (Govenor John Winthrop, SR, of Massachussets Bay Colony) reported the Willam Arnold protested the town's vote because he believed that Verin's action were justified under the ordinance f God that mandated the subjugation of wives to their husbands. According to Arnold, then, Verin had only acted "out of conscience", and the town's sensure could be regarded as a violation of an earleir town order that no man be molested for his conscience".
Verin had beaten his wife so "That she went in danger of her life" for attending worship services that he had disapproved of.
And is it any surprise that one of William's descendants was the infamous Benidict Arnold? Those that scream about the persecution of Christians because "activist judges" won't let them impose their religious views on others are nothing more than the spiritual descendants of William Arnold.
Verin had beaten his wife so "That she went in danger of her life" for attending worship services that he had disapproved of.
And is it any surprise that one of William's descendants was the infamous Benidict Arnold? Those that scream about the persecution of Christians because "activist judges" won't let them impose their religious views on others are nothing more than the spiritual descendants of William Arnold.