Hi there! I notice we have kistha in common on our friends lists. Good to (virtually) meet you, and welcome.
I really liked this part of your profile: In short, I depict myself as a follower of the universal and undeniable Truth. Whatever that may be, is possible to change from time to time, as more evidence is revealed and we as a human race sort through the lies and deception of centuries of religion.
For a while, in my teens, I tried very hard to be a Christian. My family was part of a wonderful congregation in a very progressive denomination (The United Church of Christ, who started a controversy a few years ago by making a tv ad that delicately implied that they welcomed homosexuals because Jesus would have--most networks refused to run the ads). I ended up acknowledging that my spirituality was Pagan in part because of the UCC covenant. The synod has tweaked the phrasing a bit in years since, but the version I memorized was, "We covenant with the Lord and with one another to walk in his ways as he sees fit to reveal them to us through his blessed word of truth."
I took my covenant very seriously. It turned out that the blessed word of truth was far vaster and weirder than even the weird vastness of the Bible. So your story of leaving Paganism for a path of discipleship struck a familiar chord with me.
The thing that bugs me about it this whole medical fraud thing is that these people are spending government money on the commission of crimes. If indeed the incident Planned Parenthood describes happened as they described it, then staffers at A Woman's Choice committed harassment and conspiracy to harass, and knowingly made a false statement to the police--that's at least three crimes. The girl also had a reasonable expectation of confidentiality, because the place was represented to her as a medical facility, and in some states there may be statutes relevant to that.
But then, we Americans have been living in a country without the rule of law for some time now, to everyone's detriment.
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Date: 2006-04-25 07:34 pm (UTC)I really liked this part of your profile:
In short, I depict myself as a follower of the universal and undeniable Truth. Whatever that may be, is possible to change from time to time, as more evidence is revealed and we as a human race sort through the lies and deception of centuries of religion.
For a while, in my teens, I tried very hard to be a Christian. My family was part of a wonderful congregation in a very progressive denomination (The United Church of Christ, who started a controversy a few years ago by making a tv ad that delicately implied that they welcomed homosexuals because Jesus would have--most networks refused to run the ads). I ended up acknowledging that my spirituality was Pagan in part because of the UCC covenant. The synod has tweaked the phrasing a bit in years since, but the version I memorized was, "We covenant with the Lord and with one another to walk in his ways as he sees fit to reveal them to us through his blessed word of truth."
I took my covenant very seriously. It turned out that the blessed word of truth was far vaster and weirder than even the weird vastness of the Bible. So your story of leaving Paganism for a path of discipleship struck a familiar chord with me.
The thing that bugs me about it this whole medical fraud thing is that these people are spending government money on the commission of crimes. If indeed the incident Planned Parenthood describes happened as they described it, then staffers at A Woman's Choice committed harassment and conspiracy to harass, and knowingly made a false statement to the police--that's at least three crimes. The girl also had a reasonable expectation of confidentiality, because the place was represented to her as a medical facility, and in some states there may be statutes relevant to that.
But then, we Americans have been living in a country without the rule of law for some time now, to everyone's detriment.