The fruits of censorship

jerry d. mcdonald (jmcdonald@mail.potosi.k12.mo.us)
Thu, 1 May 1997 13:30:58 -0600

I hate to be party pooper but I warned John Hamilton that if he
didn't tell you what my response was to the complaints concerning his
signature on Challenge, that I would. I did not find his signature
offensive. Here is my entire post to the subscribers on my list.

Priority: Normal
To: jmcdonald@mail.potosi.k12.mo.us
From: "Jerry McDonald" <jerry@cwent.com>
Subject: Fw: To All Subscribers
Date sent: Thu, 01 May 97 13:20:41 PDT

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> Date: Wednesday, April 30, 1997 20:38:09
> From: jerry
> To: April Dorsey-Tyler; Bill Carrell; Bill Scott; Bob Bauer;
> Castonguay, Gregory; D.B. Willis; Daniel J. Wolfram; David Adkins;
> Eric B. Hedden;
Farrell
> Till; Fred D. Whitelaw; Izz; John Anderson; John F. Gaines; John
> Hamilton; John Romo; L. Davis; Lenny Santee; Mark T. McWhorter;
> Michael Fisher;
Michael
> P. Huges; Mike Faust; Paul J Ditoro; Richard Fentiman; Steve Willis
> Subject: To All Subscribers
>
> Farrell has a good point on your postings. Take the time to put
> your name above what you are writing and also double space between
> what you have written and the post you are responding too. That
> will make it easier for every one to understand what you are
> discussing and who is saying what. Thank you Farrell for the
> suggestion.
>
> Also, there has been some complaint about something that John
> Hamilton
says
> at the end of every post. John has the poem on every post
> regardless of whether he is on "errancy" or "challenge", this isn't
> something that he
has
> in their to irritate the Christians on this list. I assure you that
> I
have
> seen it many times on "errancy." The other thing he has on is a
> quotation of Ezekiel 23:20. One might not like the translation, but
> it is scripture and that is something we cannot complain about. I
> will work hard to keep gutter language off of this list and have
> found none so far. I didn't respond earlier because I was in a
> hurry to do some work down at the
church
> building. I have not found anything offensive in John's signature
> other than the fact that some might not like the translation that he
> uses; I am not sure which one it is. Why does he have it in his
> signature, I am not sure, but it is certainly nothing that we should
> be complaining about. We need to get on with the discussions rather
> than complain about things like this. Let's forget it and proceed
> on.
>
> In Christ's Service,
> Jerry D. McDonald
> jerry@cwent.com
> http://www.cwent.com/~jerry/index.html

Who am I censoring now? hum???

In His Service,
Jerry D. McDonald
http://www.cwent.com/~jerry/index.html
jmcdonald@mail.potosi.k12.mo.us
jerry@cwent.com