Some fun facts about William Jones who authored the 1864 Arizona abortion bill:
He abandoned his first wife and their children in Missouri.
His second wife was a 12 year old Mexican girl. He abducted her and after a complaint submitted his resignation to President Buchanan before he was fired.
In 1864 (age 49) he married his 3rd wife, a 15 year old girl he abandoned in 1865 when he moved to Hawaii.
His 4th wife, a 15 year old Hawaiian native, died in Hawaii from smallpox.
He then married his 5th wife, who divorced him less than 2 years later on grounds of multiple instances of adultery by her husband.
This is the guy who wrote the law that millions of Arizona women will be forced to obey.
He abandoned his first wife and their children in Missouri.
His second wife was a 12 year old Mexican girl. He abducted her and after a complaint submitted his resignation to President Buchanan before he was fired.
In 1864 (age 49) he married his 3rd wife, a 15 year old girl he abandoned in 1865 when he moved to Hawaii.
His 4th wife, a 15 year old Hawaiian native, died in Hawaii from smallpox.
He then married his 5th wife, who divorced him less than 2 years later on grounds of multiple instances of adultery by her husband.
This is the guy who wrote the law that millions of Arizona women will be forced to obey.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
