http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/January-February-2005/feature_labi_janfeb05.html
“But can a community govern itself by Jesus’s teaching of mercy alone? It is sinful for the Amish to withhold forgiveness—so sinful that anyone who refers to a past misdeed after the Amish penalty for it has ended can be punished in the same manner as the original sinner. ‘That’s a big thing in the Amish community,’ Mary said. ‘You have to forgive and forgive.’”