[Vision2020] Fw: Letter to the Editor: Church is noninclusive

[g. crabtree]

Restrictions with regard to insurance or health and human services 
requirements/regulations leap immediately to mind.

gc
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: "'Dick Sherwin'" <rvrcowboy at clearwire.net>; "'Vision2020'" 
<vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fw: Letter to the Editor: Church is noninclusive


> Dick Sherwin stated:
>
> "Remember, there are always two sides to every story and no one has
> presented the other side here in the forum.  To date, we do not even know
> what church is involved.  Therefore, to jump to emotional conclusions 
> would
> be only adding fuel to a fire that may not even exist."
>
> Is there any reason why we should identify the particular church at this
> point in time?  If we were to identify the particular church, wouldn't we 
> be
> opening the flood gates of supposed "religious persecution"?  Yoshi Smith
> (the author of the letter in question) did not identify the church.  We
> should honor her desire for the church's anonymity.
>
> Without supposing any facts which are not known, what circumstances would
> corroborate the church's denial to a disabled person in need of 
> acceptance?
>
> What reason(s) would provide sufficient grounds for a church (any church) 
> to
> deprive a parishioner access to a vacation Bible school?
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "People only see what they are prepared to see."
>
> - Ralph Waldo Emerson
>
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