<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 6/4/01 9:37:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ruttle@home.com
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Actually, I'm Catholic. And did you ever hear of something called Vatican
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<BR>Yes, but I still fail to see the relavance to the current discussion of color
<BR>mediums on heraldic submissions.
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<BR>>The SCA doesn't allow religion but does allow the College of Heralds. I
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">find it hard to distinguish.
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Ok, the SCA will not *endorse* a particular religion. The SCA is a
<BR>non-religion society (like your High School chess club or the Friends of the
<BR>Public Library). It does not forbid religion. We are a society of
<BR>medievalists, and to study the Middle Ages without religion is just plain
<BR>foolishness.
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<BR>But that soapbox aside, I see the sarcasm you are going after, though I might
<BR>not agree with it.
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Colin G
<BR>(who will never get arms past again)
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<BR>I'm sorry the College of Heralds has left you feeling like having your arms
<BR>registered is an impossibility. Of course there is always the Sacrament of
<BR>Reconcilliation. ;-)
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<BR>Aye,
<BR>Eogan
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<BR>Tighearn Eoghan Og mac Labhrainn, OPE, CP
<BR>Sacred Stone Pursuivant Extraordinary
<BR>Web Master et A&S Minister, Hawkwood
<BR>bard na hAlba agus Atlantia
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