Posted by Lou Pilder on March 6, 2003, at 12:41:03
In reply to To Lou anyone else who may feel offended..., posted by Dena on March 5, 2003, at 10:35:12
Dena,
You wrote,[...are we supposed to remain mute...about what our faith teaches?...].
Well, I would not say that [mute] would be what anyone wants here, for this is a public forum open to all. But,IMO, if what our faith teaches conflicts with good mental health, then those teachings are asked here to be stated someware else if the teaching is against established mental health principles, for the mental health of the participants here,IMO, is considerd to be a higher priority than the principle of freedom of speech or to tell of your faiths doctrines or to say that the doctrines that others believe are [...in error...].
Then , if someone's purpose here is to use this board for their own purpose, such as to sell products or to proselytise, then that would not be permissible here as the rules so state.
Now I believe that it is not good mental health for this board to require any poster to have a higher standard of performance imposed upon them because I believe that descrimination is not a good practice to improve the mental health of its participants. In fact, I consider descrimination to have the potential to have an adverse effect on some people, myself being one of them. So if there is a rule here , I believe that all should be required to abide by it. If one person is allowed to not be required to abide by a rule here and another person is required to abide by the rule, then the one person that is required to abide by the rule is having a higher standard of performance imposed upon him/her than the one that does not have to abide by the rule.
Lou
poster:Lou Pilder
thread:200824
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/faith/20021227/msgs/206483.html