Sunday, October 14, 2007

DUM KOFF

Using the word preach here is an idiotic move if you're trying to make friends with the Amish.

from the
Intell
Henry Beiler, an Amish farmer in Lancaster County, has preached the value of the
programs to others since donating development rights to his three farms in 1987.


The article says there is resistance within the community to these programs. Language like this will hand Beiler's opposition an opening to accuse him of mixing the secular with the sacred, (which is the ultimate faux pas.)

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