Re: Lebanon


"Ian Johnston" <ian.groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:19:03 UTC, ijdavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Ian Davis) wrote:

: Jeff Slane who once posted here, did not feel it
: appropriate to post on this forum, prior to becoming a member of the
: RSofF. Having done so he posted at length here, and I personally kept
: almost everything he wrote finding it of incredible relevance to SRQ.

You sufficiently intrigued me that I googled him to find out what
happened. Looks as if he descended on RSoF with a long list of preset
notions about what quakers should believe, tried to change everything
to suit his notions and then finally threw his toys out of the pram
and ran off. Poor man. If only quakerism were that easy ...

: He so offended people here that they contacted his meeting, dragged the
: clerk of that meeting into apologising for Jeff's conduct here, with
: the consequence that Jeff resigned his membership in the RSofF and
: never again posted here.

From Quaker Faith and Practice

3.27 Authority for Public Statements

Individuals and groups must be careful not to speak for Friends
without explicit authority. Any activity or statement made in public
which claims to be undertaken in the name of Friends and relating to
the corporate life and witness of the Religious Society of Friends
must be authorised by the appropriate meeting for church affairs ...

On occasion it may be necesary for the cleark of a meeting, or another
appointed Friend, to take urgent action to correct misleading reports
in the press or other misunderstandings in the public domain ..."


Ian



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