MisKate - you are off base. No one reprimanded Carol, and she and I have communicated by email in a private way about her situation. She was the first poster in the thread, and others posted (for the most part) in the same religious tone when they wanted to, as her original posting, they offered her prayers. That is all appropriate, and how it is supposed to work.

But clearly some people didn't even know that we had a rule about religion in postings, why, and how it came to be. So for their edification, I had to restate things. It had nothing to do with Carol. It had to do with Billy who stated he didn't know we had a rule about this. It is easier to copy and paste the rules again than try to explain everything in a typed message for the umpteenth time from scratch. Since that raised an eyebrow, here I am yet again explaining things.

I wish there didn't have to be any rules, but we tried that and it didn't work. We had people pitching herbal cures, cigars of all things, Jesus as the only way out of this, We had a Buddhist being told that as a non believer in Jesus she was going to go to hell, and so much more. The dialogs got personal and hurtful and they had to be deleted and people banned from posting. The world is not full of totally balanced people, who will always behave in a manner which does not hurt others physically or emotionally. Luckily for me I am not the only one that watches these things on the board, edits or deletes things, or bans individuals. You would be surprised at the amount of rubbish like cigarette promotions that end on the board overnight on a regular basis. Someone has to clean all that crap out. Someone has to the sheriff, and someone has to catch shit for having altered someone