Apostolic Friends Forum - Do Our First Amendment Rights Apply to AFF???

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Originally Posted by staysharp (Post 344277)

Is the AFF a home or a club? A home usually doesn't have people visiting from all across the country at the same time. This is a public forum held privately.

... are you determined to shut it down or something?

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Originally Posted by staysharp (Post 344335)

Well, evidently it was an interesting enough question that you responded with anger. I was merely asking a legal question. I have no problem with the rules. However, the rules of this forum are subjective.

Gossip is rampant. Is that a Christian activity that should be allowed too? If you are going to ban someone for disagreeing with the traditional doctrinal stance, shouldn't you ban Thad too?

No but if you question Admin, you can get double banned. Im not sure how that would work but it might be fun.

maybe BOOM can find a way to restrict you to Thads Tab with read only access? that would be funny!

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Originally Posted by staysharp (Post 344335)

I'm not angry, staysharp. Not at all. Didn't you see the Happy New Year sign?

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Gossip is rampant. Is that a Christian activity that should be allowed too? If you are going to ban someone for disagreeing with the traditional doctrinal stance, shouldn't you ban Thad too?

What you're failing to recognize is the rights of the Forum itself, as an entity, to make whatever rules it sees fit, regardless of how others view those rules as fair, equal or not. The members have less rights, since they agreed to follow those rules, fair or not, when they joined of their own volition.

So, demanding rights after the fact is like demanding to be allowed to attend school topless after you've signed an agreement on your application to wear shirts to class, and then being angry when security escorts you off the premises.

P.S. I've been banned before--for breaking rules. I bit my lip and took my medicine with some dignity, and I didn't waste my time digging up dirt on every other poster in this forum in order to prove how much worse they were than me (and therefore equally bannable). Nor did I whine about my "rights", since I'm a smart girl and I understand that posting on this forum is a privilege that I can lose if I misbehave, and not something I have any right to.

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Originally Posted by staysharp (Post 344335)

How bout this , just start your own AFF, we will come sign on as members and proceed to tell you how much more holier than you we are because your too stupid to understand the bible on your own without my all inclusive theological genius and then you can ban us.

Also, it should be pointed out that there is no law that says the owners of any establishment cannot exercise judement.

Subjectivity is another word for Judement.

Back to your strip club. staysharp, if a guy comes in with exeptionally shifty eyes, you have a right to toss said fellow out on his bum. you have a right (and in some instances) a responsibility to refuse service to anyone who might do harm to your establisment (and your stripper employees).

Everyone can chill SS just managed to get a 7 day ban on another thread.

:star

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Originally Posted by James Griffin (Post 344361)

Everyone can chill SS just managed to get a 7 day ban on another thread.

:star

LOL! not dat is funnnnneeeeee!

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Originally Posted by Ferd (Post 344358)

No, no, NO, FERD, you KNOW those stripper employees are "askin' for it", and therefore those poor men have the right to look as shifty eyed as they like, and even look with their hands if they want, after all it is provoked, and the strippers are behaving much worse than the men in the club, when it comes right down to it! If the men behave badly, the strippers should be the ones banned from the club. :penguin

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Originally Posted by MissBrattified (Post 344367)

Evidently our admin team felt that Sharpstick needed to spend more time with his "adult business" than on this forum. I hope he gets things in order.

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Originally Posted by staysharp (Post 344198)

I'm wondering if our God given inalienable rights as human beings applies to AFF? Since this is a religious internet communal and I assume we are all Americans, shouldn't we have the same freedom of expression here as we do in public?

I realize this is a privately funded forum, nevertheless the tentacles of our laws extend into the crevices of private corporations. I am unaware of any private clubs that have the power to supercede the Bill of Rights?

Is it lawful to ban individuals who intimidate the scripturally weak? Is it further lawful to censure threads that speak against the Administration?

If we were in Cuba I would understand.

You might have the right to speak, but you don't have the right to be heard!

Do you think that Rush Limbaugh let's everyone have their say?