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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: nihil who wrote (64328)12/1/1999 11:57:00 AM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Nihil, I guess I can be as stubborn as E. <g> I still think you are missing the target a bit here.

Re "irrelevant exclusions," you write:

I doubt if I would subscribe to a journal that refused to publish them solely because they were Catholic. I wouldn't subscribe to a journal that refused to publish Winston Churchill (a famous professional journalist) or T.S. Eliot because they were C of E.

The point of the CSM policy (which I am just explaining, not defending) was not to "exclude" Catholics specifically, or members of the Church of England or of any other religious denomination, from publication: they regularly published op-ed pieces written by non-Christian Scientists. The point was to hire only Christian Scientists as reporters.

As originally conceived, the CSM was a Church organ. Just as one would not expect non-Lutherans to be on the staff of a Lutheran Church newsletter, for example, the Church of Christian Science thought it perfectly normal to expect the staff members of its organ to be Christian Scientists.

The problem, of course, is that the CSM is a purely secular newspaper(with the exception of the daily religious uplift column). Hence the policy was ultimately jettisoned.

Joan

P.S. I am not a Christian Scientist, or any kind of anything.
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