It was my desire and MIcca's hope that this would stay out of the personal realm. But, as I have been named and implicated, I've decided to come forward.

Praise added me to her prayer circle email without any mention of it to me until I started to receive them. Curiously she did this after telling me her trust in me had been destroyed.

In each of those messages she very nicely asked people to let her know if they'd rather not receive them. Also, without ever contacting Spaw or me to ask, she copied and pasted almost my entire initial message on KarenSpaw to what I read to be a Christian-centric list, which also included a definitey Christian prayer asking that her group pray for the Mudcat to "fulfill God's purpose and glorify His name."

Here is what I wrote to her, by email:

"Susan, Please remove me from your list and, in future, please do NOT quote me in any of your requests. My requests are written for the Mudcat community, only. Thank you, kat"

I received back a very nasty reply. I would include it here because I don't think email is considered private like PM's but it really isn't worth it.

I was offended that my words and name were going out to people of whom I'd never heard. I was offended that what I read of prayer requests on her list were very and only Christian, and that she apparently was either portraying the Mudcat as a Christian site or trying to turn it into one.

I was offended at her reply to me. I contacted Micca because I did not want to get into a personal mudslinging match. Praise has been angry at me since last March when I made remarks on the FUG-A-Thon thread which she took personally and because I refuse to get into a debate with her about it or anything else.

Thanks, Micca for sticking you neck out and thanks to the rest of you for the interesting discussion.

kat