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Well, it turns out that I have offended somebody and now the moderators don't know what to do which is understandable. They are in a tight spot. Here is the offended person's opinion:

She contends that if religious tags are allowed, that she and other members of other religions should be allowed to post similar tags. For example, if we allow tags like "Christ is the way", then she contends that others should be allowed to include tags like "Judaism spawned Christianity" or "Magick Happens" or "My Goddess gave birth to your God". If gospel books and Bibles are posted, she believes that other members should be allowed to post offers or requests for Tarot cards, pentagrams, athames, or yarmulkas. She may also include pointedly non-Christian links in the email text if she sees Christian links in other messages. If tags that offer advice about sin and redemption are allowed, she will fee free to post tags that read "Ask me how to become a Witch" or "Torah meetings every Saturday night, come join us."

Here are the freecycle rules:

Inappropriate Posts:

... you will also need to watch for illegal items or items which are restricted due to age, including alcohol, weapons, tobacco, and "adult" materials. You'll also want to look for posts that are antagonistic or inflammatory to other members, or those that may start a debate such as religious or political statements. Delete those posts, give a STERN warning to the poster, and put them on moderation.

This is the opinion of one of the group moderators:

I take that to refer to messages with a strictly religious content and which do not contain an offer or request which would comply with the purpose of Freecycle. However, the intent is to avoid controversy which might affect the smooth operation of Freecycle. Message tags could also start (and evidently have) a controversy.

My opinion is this:

Here is a story that I am going to tell to help express my opinion- Joe gets lots of magazines at his house. After he has a stack of Ranger Rick he posts them for free on freecycle. Then when he gets another stack of Time Magazine he gives them away. He does this all the time with a variety of magazines and nobody seems bothered (or at least they don't complain to him about it). Then one day Suzie sees his posts and wonders why she can't post all the Playboy and Penthouse magazines that they get at her house. After all many people read them and only the people that want them will respond. So she tells the moderator she is upset and is nice enough about it. Now what does the moderator do? Most people would say that the dirty magazines should not be allowed.

Now, here is how this compares with this freecycle situation. I am Joe. I am a Christian fulfilling my obligation to God to tell others about Christ and what he has done. Nobody has to respond to the signature if they don't want to. It is not made in an offensive way. It only will promote good things like loving others, not lying, being faithful to your spouse, working hard ect.... when people look into it.
Now the other person in the story would be someone that is into witchcraft. Witchcraft and the Occult have been known to promote things like human and animal sacrifice to the devil and other gods, unhealthy sexual activity, casting spells on people, rebellion and lying ect... Now only the people that want to look into the witchcraft signatures are going to.
I believe that we should not allow things that are going to hurt others. It is not promoting good but evil. This is not a matter of what is fair in my opinion. It is right and wrong. I also believe that I have a right to put my signature on things according to the constitution.

There are decisions being made about this and the decisions may be one of these things:

1. Allow all message tags
    2. Ban all message tags
    3. Ban just religious message tags
    4. Take a poll of members and go by majority preference


Now what do you think? I would like to know so please comment and send this to your friends and family so they can comment. Keep the comments clean and friendly. Please leave your name. I am hoping to be able to send a link of this to the moderator before they make a decision. Hopefully, we can stop anything bad from happening. So, if we can get a bunch of people to comment it would be great! Above all else don't forget to pray, pray, pray! Who knows what the Lord can do?!