I'm sorry to hear that you had to choose, Izdaari, but at least you will continue to post here, if not vote! I hope we at WWMC don't set up that rule - otherwise I'd have to choose between here and OBOB, and, well, I don't want to do that. I love both forums.
Thank you. I've been a regular here a long time, before all the changes and long before the new Conservative forum existed. I've never claimed to be a liberal, but I've always found the company and the conversations here to be good.
Well hey - liberal or not, you're always welcome here. Why throw people out for not being liberal when you can have good fellowship with them?
Ringo
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I ain't afraid of your Allah
I ain't afraid of your Jesus
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Exactly so. They've made it a rule violation to be a member of both. No biggie to me: I know you guys don't mind the kind of stuff I post here whether I'm on the list or not, and you'll get along fine without me voting.
Well, as far as I am concerned, people who live here but also sign up at other fora are still muchos appreciados here!
Aww, that's sad!
How about you're our first honorary non-voting member?
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Your Christians are so unlike your Christ!"
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How about you're our first honorary non-voting member?
I second that!
tulc(always wanted to say that!)
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls,
why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The main doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are enemies of God.
-Andrew White
We've all been conditioned to think of love as the heart-pounding,
breathless passion of the young -- not the complex feelings shared by two
time-ravaged people who spend afternoons holding hands, as a defense against
loneliness, disease and death.
-Kate Zernike
I think the honorary/non-voting/associate member thing is a good idea - I'd prefer not to join any congregation at all but have learned quite a bit in three different ones
__________________ "Many of us...have been willing to put our foot down on this issue to state publicly and strongly that it's not right how immigrants in this country are being treated, especially how they're being portrayed as criminals." --Bishop Jaime Soto
I don't yet have a "Congregation" home here on CF, so I am taking you up on your fourm motto. But I won't come under false pretenses. I am not a liberal. Politically I am middle-of-the-road, leaning toward conservative. In terms of religion I am conservative, but not fundamentalist. But I don't toe the party line. I consider each issue separately and prayerfully. On some issues I can even wind uptaking an extremely liberal, even fringe position.
I am hopeful that some of your regular members who know me from other CF fora can vouch for my good intentions and polite manners. I beleve that UberLutheran, whom I know from the homosexuality debate forum is one such member, and I am sure that there are others.
As per your wiki rules, you'll need to move me to the non-voting member list.
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-Plato
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope...build(ing) a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
-Robert F. Kennedy
I don't yet have a "Congregation" home here on CF, so I am taking you up on your fourm motto. But I won't come under false pretenses. I am not a liberal. Politically I am middle-of-the-road, leaning toward conservative. In terms of religion I am conservative, but not fundamentalist. But I don't toe the party line. I consider each issue separately and prayerfully. On some issues I can even wind uptaking an extremely liberal, even fringe position.
I am hopeful that some of your regular members who know me from other CF fora can vouch for my good intentions and polite manners. I beleve that UberLutheran, whom I know from the homosexuality debate forum is one such member, and I am sure that there are others.
So, which way to the coffee and donuts?
I just read your Wiki guidelines, and the only thing I can see that disqualifies me from your defintion of a liberal is that I don't self-identify as a liberal. It seems your definition is broader than mine.
Originally Posted by Edwin Markham
He drew a circle that shut me out – Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win; We drew a circle that took him in!
I hope we at WWMC don't set up that rule - otherwise I'd have to choose between here and OBOB, and, well, I don't want to do that. I love both forums. 
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