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Snitching	excon	07/09/05
Hello Christians: Snitching - tattling - ratting - kissing and telling, buring your sources, etc. What is the Christian/moral stand on the subject? Why? Do you keep secrets? Would you go to jail to keep a secret? Is it good or bad to do so? What do you teach your kids? If it's good, why are all the terms describing one who does so, so reviling? If it's good, we should call it kissing or loving. excon
Clarification/Follow-up by excon on 07/10/05 8:15 am: Hello again, Christians: Ok, I got it. Saving a life or property is not snitching. I really didn't think it was. But you people seem to waffell quite a bit. But, my question was about snitching, per se. The real ugly kind. Do you tell the teacher when you saw somebody cheating on a test? Do you call the cops if you see a neighbor smoking dope. Do you rat out your accomplice to save yourself from....... Do you teach your children that informing on people is good or is it bad? What is it? I'm clear on my position. Are you clear on yours? excon
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Penny		07/09/05
If this is about the Times reporter who was jailed the other day for refusing to name a source, then I don't think there is a specific "Christian" response. It is a First Amendment issue. When in doubt, which I am in this case not being privy to the details, I come down on the side of a free press. The press is the only institution capable of keeping the government accountable. As someone said, let's not get our news from government press releases. This particular case has a chilling effect on investigative journalism and that is a bad thing. If your question is not about the above, then I would say that "snitching" (the morality of it) totally depends on the thing being snitched about.

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