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This wouldn't bother me at all if the BJU people left the rest of us alone. Take the Amish as a counter-example; they live according to much stricter rules than this, and yet most "modern" people respect and admire them for it. Why? Because it's a system that works for them, and they're not trying to take over the rest of the world. If you want to join them, great; if you don't, that's your business.
BJU, in contrast, is trying to sell its system to everyone. It actively and aggressively recruits. The community is extremely active politically and will come straight out and tell you that their goal is to pass laws forcing everyone to live according to their moral rules (recriminalization of premarital sex, books/music/videos banned, etc.). They have tremendous pull in Washington; W spoke there when the interracial dating ban was still in effect.
Now, they have every right to pursue those goals, but because they are putting themselves out there as a political movement, I've got every right to call them out on it and say that they're a dangerous cult bent on taking our freedoms away.
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