FYI: An Interesting "See You at the Pole" Case

[RJLipkin at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/31/2005 4:20:08 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
nebraskalawprof at yahoo.com writes:

Of  course, once your friend says "no, thanks," you should not harass or in 
any  way impose your beliefs on the unwilling listener.

        I wonder how realistic this  is. If members of a particular religion 
are required to share the good  news, saying "no, thanks" to one member of 
that religion has no effect on the  obligations of other members of that faith. 
So if someone objects to the  continual, how should one say it, attempts by 
members of a parituclar faith to  share their faith or convert others, the above 
disclaimer has little real world  meaning.  Only if the particular religion 
itself were to exhort its members  to be extremely circumspect about who, when, 
and where they attempt to reveal  the good news, would the unwilling listener 
be protected at all; "no, thanks,"  won't do the trick. 
 
Bobby

 
Robert Justin  Lipkin
Professor of Law
Widener University School of  Law
Delaware
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