At 04:42 pm 08/19/1999 -0500, Don St. Hilaire wrote: >I quote 1 Thes. 5:22 "Abstain from all appearance of evil." > Not to nitpick, but a text out of context becomes a pretext. Check to see what Paul was talking about when he said this (which, in the modern vernacular, would probably be translated something like, "Avoid every evil y'all can.") and then decide how it applies in this case. Jeff Smith -- Washington County Republicans <http://www.teleport.com/~thehold/wcrp> ====================================== Democracy: Three wolves and a sheep voting on dinner. Republic: The flock gets to vote for which wolves vote on dinner. Constitutional Republic: Voting on dinner is expressly forbidden, and the sheep are armed. Federal Government: The means by which the sheep will be fooled into voting for a Democracy. (Author unknown) ====================================== Fight spam! Join C.A.U.C.E. <http://www.cauce.org>