Subject: Re: MEDIA RELEASE Baha'is Debate Freedom of Speech and Conscience
Date: 12/15/1998 7:02 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: FG
Message-id: <19981215070259.09500.00001887@ng-fs1.aol.com>
>Subject: Re: MEDIA RELEASE Baha'is Debate Freedom of Speech and
Conscience
>Date: 12/15/1998 1:49 AM Eastern Standard Time
>From: Smaneck
>Message-id: <19981215014952.00894.00003468@ng-bw1.aol.com>
>
>Dear Fred,
>
>I am specifically referring to the slander you made against this list. In
>your Media Release you wrote:
>
>>With recent clashes
>>even taking place on America Online and soc.religion.bahai
>>banning for months now any links to any web sites whatsoever,
>
>This is an out and out lie and anyone who participates on this list knows
it.
This is not a lie at all. There have been many clashes on AOL over freedom
of speech and conscience.
>There are web links even to Covenant breaker's sites here. Nothing has
been
>banned, there has simply been no one available to do this task.
In my referring to what I have called the 3 Issues I repeatedly stated I
have never charged the folders here themselves are censored but rather that
the stagnant situation itself is to the advantage of Bahai fundamentalists
to allow to continue....
>
>There are other misrepresenations in your post as well, but this is the one
>which is an offense to all the members who participate in this uncensored
>forum.
It is obvious you're straining hard to trump it up into one! You have no
basis for accusing me of slander, only your resentment that I've opposed
your bid for power as Forum Leader.... Not a pretty sight, Susan, not a
pretty sight....
What a strange sight you present to Non-Bahais and impartial observers who
will perceive the desperation with which many Bahais oppose freedom of
speech and conscience, seeking the flimsiest excuses for opposing
talk.religion.bahai and denying these great words of Abdul-Baha:
"These are effectual and sufficient proofs that the conscience of man
is
sacred and to be respected; and that liberty thereof produces widening of
ideas, amendment of morals, improvement of conduct, disclosure of the
secrets of the contingent world."
Abdul-Baha, A Traveler's Narrative, 91.
>
>Susan
FG....The Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience:
index.htm Talk.religion.bahai voter
ballot is on news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, alt.religion.bahai,
or email the votetaker dave@dogwood.com requesting the "trb CFV."
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