According to Paul Lombardo's masterful examination of medical atrocities in Central Virginia, Three Generations, No Imbeciles, apparently there was a time when religious figures in Charlottesville opposed rather than participated in egregious violations of medical ethics -
Not every [person] of the cloth embraced eugenics. An Episcopal pastor in Charlottesville, Virginia, ventured up to the gates of Jefferson's home at Monticello, where in a grand gesture of protest he burned his robe and his prayer book. He denounced his church for turning its back on the poor and "wasting time on eugenics."
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