[Vision2020] Prediction/pin drop

[Paul Rumelhart]

At the risk of being shown to be an idiot because I don't know the whole 
story...

I hate this kind of thing.  Each person can, of course, do their 
business with whomever they wish.  But to boycott groups merely because 
of their religious beliefs, no matter how vile or inhumane or pasee' or 
gauche or whatever it is you dislike about them is (imho) wrong.  
Freedom of religion means that even the people you don't like get to 
worship as they wish.  Hells, *especially* the people you don't like.

If you are going to draw a line, draw it at the action level, not at the 
belief level.  Have any of these people done anything wrong other than 
to believe as they wish?  Don't they have that right?  Are they 
sacrificing babies or something?  Defiling kittens?  Suggesting that 
their children go play in the road?  Listening to Britney Spears?

I, for one, don't care to know what the people I do business with 
believe unless I know them well.

I know I'm going to get flack for this, but I truly believe that people 
should have the right to believe as they wish.  And before all the 
common reasons get trotted out again, do any of these people have 
anything to do with Sitler, the founding of New St. Andrews, whatever 
the fuss was with boarding houses, or the rehistorification of the 
South?  And if a few of them do, is that grounds for trying to run them 
out of business?  For trying to make them go broke?  You don't owe them 
a living, but you do owe them a fair chance regardless of what you think 
about whatever unseen forces they worship. 

My fervor on this topic probably has something to do with the fact that 
I hold beliefs that most people don't agree with. 

Paul

g. crabtree wrote:
> A point of clarification, if I may. No unsupported rumors are being 
> spread here. Please contact Kenna Eaton at the Co-op (882-8537) for 
> confirmation of the details concerning this sordid event or see:
>  
> http://right-mind.us/blogs/blog_0/archive/2007/11/05/55872.aspx
>  
>  The point of bringing this matter to light is not to portray the 
> Co-op or its management in a bad light but to reveal a certain mind 
> set that is all too common amongst a certain element that centers 
> itself there. A group that is quick to shriek when the word bigot is 
> used when referring to themselves all the while quietly bearing the 
> contention out in secret.
>  
> g
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