Woops!  I thought I sent this to the whole list, but it just went to Brian.  
Darn these email lists!  :-)

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Subject: RE: Food for Thought
From: "Brian Densmore" <DensmoreB@ctbsonline.com>
To: "Kendric Beachey" <ak@kc.rr.com>

Interesting, but I've never meet Mennonites like these. I have met only
conservative Mennonites. Ones that will use electricity put still dress
plainly, thanks for the links.

Interesting.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kendric Beachey [mailto:ak@kc.rr.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 11:07 PM
> To: Brian Densmore
> Subject: Re: Food for Thought
>
> On Tuesday 05 November 2002 05:06 pm, Brian Densmore wrote:
> > Simple fact is I'd rather see real parenting happen. You don't see
> > a lot of Mennonites running off to pick up copies of
> > playboy. In fact
> > I'll buy anyone on the list a steak dinner at Ruth Chris'
> > who can find
> > me a real Mennonite who has. No newly converted Mennonites
> > allowed. ;)
>
> Get out your checkbook!  :-)
>
> Maybe I don't qualify as a "real" Mennonite by your
> definition, but that's
> what my family has been called for at least three
> generations.  Here is the
> website of the (fairly liberal) Mennonite church I attend:
> http://rainbow.ks.us.mennonite.net/
>
> As this thread grows increasingly off topic, I offer the
> following links in
> case in anyone's mind "Mennonite" means "almost Amish":
>
> http://mcusa.mennonite.net/ -- Mennonite Church USA
> http://www.mwc-cmm.org/ -- Mennonite World Conference
> http://www.geocities.com/amishchurch/ -- an Amish church with
> a website (??!!)
>
> Actually, I have never exchanged money for a copy of playboy,
> so maybe I don't
> qualify for the steak dinner on that basis either.  ;-)
--
Kendric Beachey
ak@kc.rr.com