Interesting rant InOBU. My mother became a Quaker from convincement when I was a little girl so I was brought up learning some Quaker principals. I am member of a Quaker meeting now but haven't been to one in ages. I don't go to our local one because it has been bullied and run by an ignorant selfish bitch and I got tired of fighting it, I didn't have a peer group.

My experience of Canadian Quakers is that they can be wonderful, nasty and silly. A lot of them actually do things about injustice and world peace and it was their activism in place of proselytizing that I appreciated. They go through periods of silly schisms, Gay Quakers versus Plain Quakers a couple of centuries ago, and now Christocentric versus Universalist. A lovely example of silliness was a proposed conference to discuss this latest split but in order to attend the conference you had to say you were Christocentric. OOps.

Geez there seems to be a lot I could say about my experience of Quakers but I'll quit now.