QUOTE(AngelFace @ Aug 23 2008, 09:42 PM)
Listen, wasserman, here is why it is pertinent. When that affiliation is so paradoxical to the reported situation that it shocks the sensibilities, it gets reported. The young woman who drove drunk and went the wrong way on Rt. 30 killing 3 young men, she was reported as a Lancaster Christian School graduate. What did that have to do with the crime? It was shocking to learn that someone driving drunk, hanging out in a bar until closing, working at Iron Hill Brewery, was from a Christian school.
Puppy mills shock people. Animal cruelty shocks people. The wholesale slaughter of 80 dogs in one day shocks people. But for those acts to be done by people who call themselves The Quiet in the Land makes it doubly shocking.
When you ask tourists what the Plain people, whether Amish or Mennonite, are like, they use words like "gentle", "kind", "loving", "neighborly", "peace-loving". So it is SHOCKING to learn these men are NOT GENTLE, KIND, LOVING, or LAW-ABIDING. They are cruelty personified.
Here is my challenge: Where are the elders of this Mennonite group? Where is their bishop? Where is the godly correction? Where is the accountability? Can their church, by their silence, be in agreement with the way puppy mills operate? The public wants to know.
Well stated Angel and Reese.
