Viewpoint from Manager of our local newspaper.

worldtraveller

Everyone here should read this. Here is the link:
http://www2.canada.com/surreynow/news/viewpoint/story.html?id=c4e29752-1dca-4c67-8543-d72da8322aa7
cameo-d

Link does not come up for me.
dinah

Excellent article.
cameo-d

Came up this time.
Thanks posting, WorldTraveler.
And thanks to Beau, the Managing Editor, for having the integrity to take a stand against the odds to make this known. It was a very good article and wish it could travel the Dubland email circuit.
The-Borg

So, apparently, my sister is mature, wise and educated enough to make a life-or-death decision, but she's not mature enough to walk home from school with a boy
Very good point.
dinah

That was the part that struck me, Borg.
slimboyfat

If I had needed a blood transfusion at 14, I wouldn't be alive right now. Because at 14, I thought that would be the right thing to do. But I also thought Jonah literally lived inside a whale for three days and three nights. I also thought that the world is only 6,000 years old, because that is what I had been taught - I knew no other way.
He sure paid attention at the meetings.
coffee_black

Great article!
Coffee
carla
bluecanary

slimboyfat, even into my teens (raised JW) I thought the 6,000 years was literal. They hadn't made that very clear to me.