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A wicked twist

By pharyngula on November 27, 2009.

Michael Young was a nasty old Christian bigot who lived a long life and left his fortune to his relatives. Apparently,though, fundamentalist hate isn't necessarily heritable, and one of those relatives, who I think is named Anthony Perry, established the Michael Young Fund, and is handing out the money to…well, follow the link. Let's just say it's a good thing there is no afterlife, or he'd be seething in even greater torment.

Just to forestall the usual whines, what if this happened to me, and I left money to my kids and one of them used the capital to hand out cash to organizations I disliked? I'd be dead, first of all, so I wouldn't care; and I would leave what little money have to my kids to do with as they'd like, not as I'd like, so I wouldn't have grounds to complain anyway.

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