Dear Kat/Katlaughing

Maybe there should be another thread on religious tolerance (personally I abominate most organised religions with fairly equal fervour, having as a teenager had a religious phase and later coming to the conclusion that all orgainsed religions were forces of repression, but that is another story. You want to worship, that's fine, but don't hassle me to join your beliefs or set them up as better than my conscience.)

My daughter just joined Intel and was obliged to go to the USA to be inducted etc. Upon arrival she was put in a corporate flat (that's apartment, for those of you who prefer AMerican to ENglish), briefly. THere was no kettle or tea or coffee. SHe complained that these would be merely courtesy to those incoming until they had time to buy their own, and was firmly told that they could not possibly be provided in case an incoming person was a Mormon nad was offenc=ded by the presence of "stimulants". SHe was told that the Mormon religion prihibited all stimulants. SHe retorted that with all those wives, you'd have thought they needed them, and seemed to cause near apoplexy. She has since ben formally reprimanded for wishing a passer -by a "Merry Christmas" in case that might not ahve been thier religion.

Sorry about the typing.