--- Alex Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- 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 Yes! Let's hear it for damned democracies and experienced based thinking. > > > > > 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 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com 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/
