Disclaimer

...when we say we welcome "all" opinions, we do try to mean that. But we also have to keep to a semi-appropriate code of conduct if we want to keep our discussions fun, interesting and productive. With that in mind, we ask that you use something called SENSE at the meetings. Once in a very rare while, somebody born without this extremely useful faculty will not be able to discern between "acceptable" and "not acceptable" conduct, so we've gathered some examples to help them out and let everyone know what to expect at AAF:
+ Disagreeing with certain actions, kinds of behavior or ways of life is fine.
- Hate speech is not.
+ Disagreeing with a person is all well and good.
- Personal attacks are not.
+ Wild and zany opinions are awesome and fuel discussion.
- Refusing to hear people who disagree with you is kind of pointless, and makes us wonder why you showed up to our meetings in the first place.
+ Coming to talk about your own religious take on an issue is great, we want to hear it. It's hard to talk about some of these issues without hearing what all sides have to say.
- Coming to preach--please don't.
+ Coming with a less-than-stellar outlook on religion, wonderful.
- Coming specifically to try and "convert" the religious people who show up to our meetings--please don't do that either.

In essence, as long as you come here with the social skills they taught you in kindergarden, you'll be fine. The number of times we have to call people on any of the above problems is so small it barely merits any mention on the site--this is really a "just in case" notice. And if you're the kind of person who's wondering why any university discussion group even NEEDS to put such a just-in-case on our website, we say: welcome! Come, discuss and enjoy.