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Old 06-19-2008, 08:03 AM
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Well Said Joshua. I have some Mennonite friends back home in WV and I was invited to go to what my friends derisively called a "Courtship Trial" in which the Father of one of my friends was questioning the suitor oh his eldest daughter (who was not Mennonite). Evidently they required "witnesses" or something, who knows. Went "well" until they found he was not completely chaste. Then not so good, though they ended up getting married anyway and last I knew were still married 11 years later.
That's horrible. Really. So bad I actually can't cry.
Interestingly enough it was part of the reason why a couple of them that I knew actually became Old Order Mennonite (one even went Amish). They thought the "modern" Mennonites they were raised around had lost the reasons for why they did certain things and had perverted them.
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