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Re: Wait a minute...&ESL proj

• Posted by D. Newhall <derek_newhall at yahoo.com> Jan 18, 2006
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Jeremy Peterson wrote:
> 
> Hey Lynn, what's with the Blessed Be in your sig?  And why isn't anyone
> complaining
> about it?  C.K and some others used to put Bible verses in their sigs and
> there
> was a huge to-do.  When you put a wiccan thing in your sig, not a peep.  Does
> anyone see a double standard here?

Personally, I don't have a problem with either but if there was such an uproar
over over Bible quotes it would stand to reason that there should be something
similar with Wiccan ones. If we decided to censor someone expressing their
religious convictions why should someone else with different ones be allowed to
express them? Although, there is no forum-wide ban on religious items AFAIK.

The issue here may be that "Blessed Be" isn't universally recognized as a Wiccan
thing. Well, it is but only for those who are familiar with Wicca. Also, there
could be a slight difference in context. Are we talking whole quotes versus, say,
"God bless everyone" (which would be analagous to "Blessed Be")? Also, the
content of such quotes would matter too. Someone having a problem with Leviticus
20:13 is understandable but with something like Genesis 1:1 there should be no
outstanding reason for complaint.

This issue is before my time though so I don't know much about it nor do I
really have much of an opinion on it.


> On a different note, I've put together a stack of files that conforms exactly
> to the ESL guidelines, but I'm not sure if anyone wants them or if I should
> distribute them, since D. says he's going to get the ESL project going soon.

Ooooh... What are they on? We'll gladly take them if we could use them. There
might be an issue with the comments and stuff since we're finalizing them now and
aren't on the site yet. If there is an issue we'll work on converting them over
if need be.


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