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- From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: Protestant caucasians
- Keywords: Rancho DeLuxe...walking a half dollar across your knuckles
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.134135.17369@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 18:41:35 GMT
- Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael
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- styri@nta.no writes:
- >I found this cute passage in another newsgroup:
- >
- >> Many subdivisions in the United States have covenants that prohibit the
- >> sale of houses to anyone except Protestant caucasians. If you tried to
- >> back out of a sales contract based on that "legally binding" convenant you
- >> will find yourself in an incredible amount of legal trouble.
- >
- >Now, is this true? (Not John De Armond, but the covenants.)
- >
-
- There are lots of covenants around. Race and religion as bases for
- these are illegal. Now, if you want to talk about covenants which
- prohibit a householder from parking his pick-up truck on the site, well,
- that's a different story. I understand the ownership of a pick-up
- truck is defensible as a religious tenet only in Montana.
- --
- Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu> One never knows, do one?
-