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To: buccaneer81

“Not at the school in the video. The parents are all for it...”
The Cambridge Friends School is a Quaker school most likely the Hicksite brand and very liberal. The parents send their kids there primarily because they are empathetic with that perspective. Here on Long Island we have two Quaker schools, Friends Academy and Westbury Friends School. Although the former is for the super duper rich, the latter is committed to a more egalitarian enrollment. However, both are very liberal although I am not sure they even come close to the Cambridge point of view. Quakers are not far from Unitarian Universalists who are not in any sense Christian. Elias Hicks, a native 19th century Long Islander, preached to area Quakers that Christ was not God and the miracles he performed not real. In the climate of those days, he gained many followers primarily because he was a virulent abolitionist and that social cause came to preempt the gospel. The videos on You Tube are horrifying and ought to be viewed as child abuse.


20 posted on 03/06/2011 2:14:12 PM PST by sueuprising (The best of it is, God is with us-John Wesley)
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To: sueuprising; buccaneer81

“The videos on You Tube are horrifying and ought to be viewed as child abuse.”

That was my first thought too: mass child abuse, exhibits A & B.

Interesting about Hicksite Quakers.


96 posted on 03/06/2011 6:01:49 PM PST by OldNewYork (social justice isn't justice; it's just socialism)
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