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[quote=Anonymous]I also went to quaker school, quaker camp, was raised quaker. The poster who said there's a lot of old hippie draft dodgers is not very wrong... that had a lot to do with my parents becoming quakers. (Although my grandparents were pretty red, so not a huge stretch.)

At best, it's a very open, very accepting, very lovely set of values: who can argue with a doctrine that says the light of God is in everyone and you should treat them accordingly?

At worst, it is like a parody of every liberal cliche you can imagine: very, very overly ernest people, who are trying so hard to be accepting that they will bend over backwards to be so. Even in situations when it's not appropriate.

When I was a child there was a homeless guy who liked to come to our meeting and expose himself to us kids. We did, of course, complain to our parents. The Meeting formed a committee to discuss whether they could help him. Many people thought he should be allowed to continue to come to firstday worship. Since quakers only reach decisions by consensus... this all took some time. And I don't think they ever did get rid of the Sikh guy who liked to give us eleven. year old girls big hugs....

But that was the 70s. It is true to say it was a different time.

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