Citizen Rain, very interesting. It would be very hard to "get out" for children or women with poor (or no) English skills in America.
Aunt Fancy, the Watchtower should have taken that into consideration and told people not to offer the mags, but of course Watchtower is all about pushing the mags so damn those Amish that accept the mags and don't immediate join the JW's.
Balaamsass, "Amish with make up" or "Amish with make up and popes" is a great contribution to this thread.
Eustace, I think "allowed" is the keyword to show they are just above slaves. Maybe just above "house slaves" would be better.
Label Licker, talk about going from the frying pan into the fire: "We have mennonites that came into the troof and their elderly.."