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Samuel Mullet, the Amish bishop accused of forceful beard-cutting, sat down with us for an exclusive interview for the first time since going to jail. “We’re not denying we cut hair. And I’m not saying it was right or wrong,” he said. “But being here in jail — well, it looks wrong. Let’s suppose that God has done this for a reason. Nobody realized when the guys went that it would be looked at this seriously. Nobody would have done anything if we knew it would become a serious case.” Still, he saw incarceration as a sacrifice for his followers and a personal martyrdom of sorts — a fulfillment of what he described as “God’s vision” for him. “Christ did it for me so why shouldn’t I do it for them?” he said. But his time in jail proves to be not all bad; he did score himself a new nickname. “They’re calling me O.G.,” he said, smiling. “I don’t know what it means, but I guess it means something good.”

Samuel Mullet, the Amish bishop accused of forceful beard-cutting, sat down with us for an exclusive interview for the first time since going to jail.

“We’re not denying we cut hair. And I’m not saying it was right or wrong,” he said. “But being here in jail — well, it looks wrong. Let’s suppose that God has done this for a reason. Nobody realized when the guys went that it would be looked at this seriously. Nobody would have done anything if we knew it would become a serious case.”

Still, he saw incarceration as a sacrifice for his followers and a personal martyrdom of sorts — a fulfillment of what he described as “God’s vision” for him.

“Christ did it for me so why shouldn’t I do it for them?” he said.

But his time in jail proves to be not all bad; he did score himself a new nickname.

“They’re calling me O.G.,” he said, smiling. “I don’t know what it means, but I guess it means something good.”

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  1. sweetthingsandwetdreams reblogged this from thedailyfeed and added:
    I now know that beard cutting is considered a hate crime.
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    I found the link to the interview and story very interesting its a way of looking into other ppls thinking..
  7. katninetails reblogged this from thedailyfeed and added:
    O.G in this case means Old Geezer.
  8. ibvoyeur reblogged this from thedailyfeed and added:
    OLD GOOFY most likely. A religious lithmus test might be, “If you are doing something that you believe god told you to...
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    “They’re calling me O.G.”. Haha, word.
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