Subject: You may be a bit mixed-up, here.
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Posted on: 2012-08-26 02:24:00 UTC

How I understand it is that Permission gives those with Permission to say "I am the PPC",

No. No one person is the PPC. Their writing and fics and reviews are representative of the PPC, but they are not the entity. We all are; that's the point.

We cannot, should not, and will never (as far as I am aware) deny someone permission based on their religion, even if said religion is something that contradicts science. The reason that Jacer was denied permission was not her religion; nobody in the PPC has ever (to the best of my knowledge/memory) been denied permission because of their religion. It was because she used her beliefs to bully and attack others, including other PPCers.

If Des goes around bullying/harassing people with Creationism, then we have a serious problem. But simply disbelieving in a science is not cause for not including someone in the PPC, or giving them permission. We had a guy a while back who, as I discovered through his profils elsewhere, was entirely convinced that the entire pharmaceutical research industry/science, worldwide (but especially in America), was false, conspiratorial, hiding The Truth, etc. He had other issues with his various actions on the PPC, so it never came up, but if he'd applied for permission with a stellar application, he would've gotten the go ahead, because his personal beliefs do not apply to his PPC work, and never, ever should.

--VM

(I haven't finished reading the sample, so I won't comment on that directly, yet.)

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