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To: Willie Green
Good time for my questions:
Are the Amish people politically active? In that are they known to be of one political party or another? If they are voters who do they vote for usually?
3 posted on 10/22/2003 1:25:33 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Graybeard58; AmishDude
Are the Amish people politically active?

Heck, I don't know.
AmishDude is the only one that I know that is.
Maybe he can answer your other questions.

10 posted on 10/22/2003 1:43:09 PM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: Graybeard58
Are the Amish people politically active?

At times. They won a Supreme Court case protecting their right to remove children from schools after grade 8.

14 posted on 10/22/2003 1:46:53 PM PDT by AdamSelene235 (I always shoot for the moon......sometimes I hit London.- Von Braun)
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To: Graybeard58
Are the Amish people politically active?

No. Most simply put, Amish believe that institutions were either ordained by God or they were not; there is no middle road. The family and church were ordained by God; government was not.

20 posted on 10/22/2003 1:52:51 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Graybeard58
Are the Amish people politically active?

Do a web search on Amish politics... nothing.

22 posted on 10/22/2003 1:53:49 PM PDT by Between the Lines ("What Goes Into the Mind Comes Out in a Life")
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To: Graybeard58
They don't vote. They do advocate obeying the laws of
man when they do not violate the laws of God. However,
this orange triangle issue seems very strange. God
created the color orange. God created the triangle. The
orange triangle isn't being used as a "decoration" as much
as their "hex" signs on barns. Though I agree with the
Amish on many things, this is one area where it appears
to me that they are straining at a gnat and swallowing a
camel.
25 posted on 10/22/2003 1:56:08 PM PDT by Twinkie
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To: Graybeard58
Here in N.E. Indiana they are almost exclusively Republicans.
45 posted on 10/22/2003 2:42:00 PM PDT by Burr5
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