--- In [email protected], "feste37" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ah. Perhaps Erik will now turn his investigative skills to, > say, the attitude of local churches to gays and to gay > marriage. This is a topic I know nothing about, but I am > sure it would be possible to produce a piece bashing > some church or other for its reactionary views, digging > up a few disgruntled ex-members to say some negative things, > etc. etc. It won't happen of course, because in this town, > when you want to attack a local organization, it's almost > predetermined which one you aim for. You feel Erik is being selective in who he's targeting? I certainly don't claim to know what's in his heart or what motivates him, so maybe you're right. But it seems to me that the Amma visits being such huge phenomena (statewide media coverage every year) make that story and the friction with the TMO an obvious topic to cover. Honestly, I can't think of any huge, attention-grabbing stories about any other local religious orgs behaving poorly. Some years ago, in the pre-Erik Gable era, one of the local churches brought a speaker to town named Rabi Maharaj, whose whole schtick was TM-bashing on the basis of TM's incompatibility with fundamentalist Christianity. My recollection was that the town, for the most part, ignored the whole thing. I listened to the guy talking to Jan Michelson on WHO radio, and it was clear to me that he had to dumb down Vedanta in order to compare it to Christianity (for example, Shiva is the destroyer, therefore he's the equivalent of Satan), and IMO, that said a hell of a lot more about his Christianity than Vedanta. There was also a story about gay-themed books in local school libraries, and it did receive local media coverage as well as national coverage, IIRC. But, I don't recall whether any particular church was involved. http://bakerbooks.net/banned_list.asp "Am I Blue?: Coming out from the Silence Marion Dane Bauer $5.95 paperback Challenged, but retained at the Fairfield, Iowa Middle School and High School libraries (2000) despite objections to sexually explicit passages, including a sexual encounter between two girls." Alex To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
