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10-20-2010, 10:47 PM
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Re: Don't Ask....Don't Tell. Good Policy?
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Don't know if anyone remembers the Surgeon General under Reagan, E. Everett Koop and how he got HAMMERED 25 years ago for saying the same things in a public forum?
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10-20-2010, 10:51 PM
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Re: Don't Ask....Don't Tell. Good Policy?
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One has to wonder what the message is saying or meaning. It obviously feels like a "whoa there" message. Whether that was the intention or not.
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Just understand this statement is simply a preexisting written policy pasted here to provide guidance for discussion on this particular topic.
It is what it is. No one, nor any posts have been singled out. The statement was established more than a year before this thread started.
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10-20-2010, 10:52 PM
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Re: Don't Ask....Don't Tell. Good Policy?
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Originally Posted by Sabby
Don't know if anyone remembers the Surgeon General under Reagan, E. Everett Koop and how he got HAMMERED 25 years ago for saying the same things in a public forum?
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I wouldn't remember that; 25 years ago I was only 9. 
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"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
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10-20-2010, 11:09 PM
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Re: Don't Ask....Don't Tell. Good Policy?
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Originally Posted by Hoovie
Just understand this statement is simply a preexisting written policy pasted here to provide guidance for discussion on this particular topic.
It is what it is. No one, nor any posts have been singled out. The statement was established more than a year before this thread started.
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I don't think how that was perceived.
Imagine a guy walking in a room (called a forum), opening up and sharing his doubts and perspective. Then the head of the house steps and says "just a reminder, we don't want to here a dissenting opinion on this topic." It just stifles the conversation, and certainly becomes a wet blanket.
I think it was poorly timed. Just about every poster here knows what AFF thinks about homosexuality. It seems uncalled for to even have a prepared statement on the matter.
My opinion. We all have them. Our egos needs a forum to share them 
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10-20-2010, 11:42 PM
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Re: Don't Ask....Don't Tell. Good Policy?
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Originally Posted by Jeffrey
I don't think how that was perceived.
Imagine a guy walking in a room (called a forum), opening up and sharing his doubts and perspective. Then the head of the house steps and says "just a reminder, we don't want to here a dissenting opinion on this topic." It just stifles the conversation, and certainly becomes a wet blanket.
I think it was poorly timed. Just about every poster here knows what AFF thinks about homosexuality. It seems uncalled for to even have a prepared statement on the matter.
My opinion. We all have them. Our egos needs a forum to share them |
I want to be careful and not violate the rules of Admin critique in the public section, but there's no question how the stop sign was perceived. I have expressed my feelings privately as directed by the rules.
But I'm very disappointed by the turn this thread took at such a crucial time. It's very saddening to me. While it inspires me to fight on, it's a bit of a punch in the gut to see things go the way they did. We were getting somewhere and now? Nothing. Very disappointing.
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10-20-2010, 11:45 PM
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Re: Don't Ask....Don't Tell. Good Policy?
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Originally Posted by Azzan
I am sorry my posts were taken as an intent to promote the gay lifestyle. That wasn't my intention and I apologize. I have only been responding to questions. I will go back to lurking. Thanks all. Carry on.
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Clearly, here is how it was perceived. I'm very saddened.
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10-20-2010, 11:52 PM
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Re: Don't Ask....Don't Tell. Good Policy?
There have been past threads on this topic that have gotten out of hand. The AFF *position* was posted to try to keep things in line with the forum values. Azzan hasn't been infracted, asked to stop posting or even warned as far as I know.
Ergo, the histrionics over something that hasn't even happened can stop now. 
So far this has been a fairly productive conversation. However, it IS a sensitive issue, and it's easy to see how it could get out of hand quickly on either side of the fence. Preemptive strikes by the Admin team are perfectly appropriate, and at this juncture: nothing more than a reminder [repost] of the AFF's official stance on the issue of homosexuality.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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10-20-2010, 11:55 PM
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Re: Don't Ask....Don't Tell. Good Policy?
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Originally Posted by notofworks
Clearly, here is how it was perceived. I'm very saddened.
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It was also clearly stated they were wrong in their perception. The invitation to continue the discussion along the guidelines posted was made clear.
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"It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity." Dave Barry 2005
I am a firm believer in the Old Paths
Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
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10-21-2010, 12:12 AM
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Re: Don't Ask....Don't Tell. Good Policy?
For the record: I didn't post the warning nor did I concur or consult on it. I had barely just logged in, but I responded from what I read of the Admin team
In one of my posts I chose a neutral position on whether our visitor was a male or female, without a response I took an assumed position and if Azzan is female I apologize, but my questions are really generic in nature.
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Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
- There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
- The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
- Every sinner must repent of their sins.
- That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
- That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
- The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
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10-21-2010, 12:14 AM
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Go Dodgers!
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Re: Don't Ask....Don't Tell. Good Policy?
And as for how it was perceived...fine but it's been explained as to it's intent. So let's move on and anymore issues with the Admin decision should be addressed in PM. Let's move forward on the topic
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Let it be understood that Apostolic Friends Forum is an Apostolic Forum.
Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
- There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
- The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
- Every sinner must repent of their sins.
- That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
- That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
- The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
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