Quakers sue over unpaid taxes

[Loonman]

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20030725_182.html

Nice. Quakers are unshakebale in their quest for peace, and were the first group to speak out publicly against slavery.

[quispquake]

1. But...

...remember, Nixon was a Quaker...
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[Loonman]

2. Nixon said he was a quaker

George Dubya claims he's a Christian.

Big difference between words and deeds.

[Giverney]

3. hahah

YOUP.

I thought you were supposed to follow in the ways of Jesus if you were a Christian? Guess he doesn't apply.

[WildClarySage]

4. He thinks

that he is the returned Christ. That's why God talks to him.

[kayell]

6. Nixon was a California Quaker

more similar to Methodists or Baptists than to most Quakers. http://www.kimopress.com/nixon.html

[TreasonousBastard]

7. We don't like to talk about Nixon all that much.

Nor do we make a big point of Herbert Hoover having been a Quaker, although Hoover was most assuredly not the weasel Nixon was. We have a thing called the Clearness Committee, which, had they latched on to Nixon, would have come up with a very interesting report. You can be thrown out of the Quakers, you know.

Tom Paine, Bayard Rustin, and Bonnie Raitt are much more to our tastes as famous Quakers go.

The Peace Testimony is fundmental to Quaker life and belief, but it has never been absolutely subscribed to by all Quakers. WWII, in particular, caused great divides within the RSOF, many of whom began to subscribe to Just War principles. Curiously, George Fox found much of his early support from the officers in King James' army.

Even now, there seems to be far more support for the Iraq war in the Midwest than on the Coasts.


About the Peace Testimony--

http://www.distanceeddesign.com/peace_testimony/

http://www.kimopress.com/quaker-peace.htm

[Ekaterina]

5. WOW

what if we COULD decide what our tax dollars get spent on?? THAT would be true freedom......If every person against the industrial-military complex and the bloated wasteful spending of the government could simply say "Nope, not with MY money" and instead earmark OUR funds for schools, roads, health care and the environment, what a wonderful world it would be. Just looking at the $$$$$ drained off my check to line Dick Cheney's bloody pockets makes me want to
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