Eh, rumspringa

Bishop Samuel Mullet, and his two sons Johnny and Daniel Mullet are accused of being part of a breakaway group which forcibly cut beards and hair off fellow Amish women and men following a feud.

/Wonder what kind of hair cutting was going on?

It also says that Samuel Mullet had been taking married women from the Bergholz clan into his home so that he could "cleanse them of the devil with acts of sexual intimacy".

what's amish-speak for "bow-chicka-bow-wow"

Brown-chicken-brown-cow!

I was born and raised Amish, but had to leave the church about ten years ago. I had an operable tumor in my abdomen, but the price of the operation was way too much for our parish. Since we were not allowed to have health insurance, I had no choice but to leave Pennsylvania and find a job that offered benefits. A decade later, I still miss the farm, but because of my sin I cannot return.

Most English probably chuckle at these beard cutting episodes. You have to realize, though, that beards are deeply and religiously significant to both Amish men and women. An Amish man does not shave his beard after he becomes married. A long beard is the mark of an adult Amish man. Amish women are forbidden from shaving, plucking, waxing, or otherwise mutilating their faces. Our beards are our greatest source of pride.

Mullets cutting beards? Dogs & cats living together???

It's the END TIMES!

spentmiles: I was born and raised Amish, but had to leave the church about ten years ago. I had an operable tumor in my abdomen, but the price of the operation was way too much for our parish. Since we were not allowed to have health insurance, I had no choice but to leave Pennsylvania and find a job that offered benefits. A decade later, I still miss the farm, but because of my sin I cannot return.

Most English probably chuckle at these beard cutting episodes. You have to realize, though, that beards are deeply and religiously significant to both Amish men and women. An Amish man does not shave his beard after he becomes married. A long beard is the mark of an adult Amish man. Amish women are forbidden from shaving, plucking, waxing, or otherwise mutilating their faces. Our beards are our greatest source of pride.

So, dwarves... only taller, and with slightly less ale. Right.

Small inwardly focused religious community that rejects the outside world.....ends up in the hands of a maniacal madman obsessed with power? Geez. I should'a seen it coming. Even the Amish aren't immune to a douchebag with a loud mouth and delusions of grandeur seizing power and abusing the hell out of it.

spentmiles: I was born and raised Amish, but had to leave the church about ten years ago. I had an operable tumor in my abdomen, but the price of the operation was way too much for our parish. Since we were not allowed to have health insurance, I had no choice but to leave Pennsylvania and find a job that offered benefits. A decade later, I still miss the farm, but because of my sin I cannot return.

Most English probably chuckle at these beard cutting episodes. You have to realize, though, that beards are deeply and religiously significant to both Amish men and women. An Amish man does not shave his beard after he becomes married. A long beard is the mark of an adult Amish man. Amish women are forbidden from shaving, plucking, waxing, or otherwise mutilating their faces. Our beards are our greatest source of pride.

You magnificent bastard!

Now that was a funny headline, subs

Heard by someone in the courtroom.

"Something is amish about this case. I just can't put my finger on it."

spentmiles: I was born and raised Amish, but had to leave the church about ten years ago. I had an operable tumor in my abdomen, but the price of the operation was way too much for our parish. Since we were not allowed to have health insurance, I had no choice but to leave Pennsylvania and find a job that offered benefits. A decade later, I still miss the farm, but because of my sin I cannot return.

Most English probably chuckle at these beard cutting episodes. You have to realize, though, that beards are deeply and religiously significant to both Amish men and women. An Amish man does not shave his beard after he becomes married. A long beard is the mark of an adult Amish man. Amish women are forbidden from shaving, plucking, waxing, or otherwise mutilating their faces. Our beards are our greatest source of pride.

As a post-menopausal women who must constantly pluck chin hairs to avoid growing a beard that would soon overtake my face, I shudder at the thought of elderly Amish women who must comb their necks every morning.