Post a pic of your face. If it's trim and clean I think it's absolutely silly of them to demand that you shave it off. However, if what you call a goatee amounts to peach fuzz or a pedophile beard, well, can't blame them.

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God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
-Mark Twain

If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-Albert Einstein