[Vision2020] Climate

[Jerry Owen]

Melynda et al,

Disrupting is an inaccurate thing to call it.  Four NSA students went to the 
Gay Straight Alliance to meet people, develop friendships and learn about 
the gay community.  Why?  Because in the Christian worldview, just because 
you disagree with someone doesn't mean you hate them or don't want to 
understand them.  For example, I think republicans are quite off, but that 
doesn't mean I won't speak to them or tolerate their presence.

The CRF members who were kicked out of the Alliance (?) asked for a reason 
why they were asked to leave and were never given one.  They asked and 
emailed (twice).  They were told that they didn't get kicked out because 
they're white or male or Christian or dispruptive (although the group leader 
said told them as they were being kicked out that asking why they were 
getting kicked out was disruptive).  So we're still wondering why they had 
to leave.

People of all color, gender and sexual orientation are (and always have 
been) welcome at CRF meetings.  And if you want to hear the only black 
preacher in town, Chris Morris preaches regularly at Christ Church's monthly 
Evensong services (third Sunday of every month) as he did this past Sunday.

Cheerio,

Jerry Owen



>From: "Melynda Huskey" <mghuskey@msn.com>
>To: vision2020@moscow.com
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Climate
>Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:59:01 -0800
>
>Doug writes:
>
>>Someone needs to take responsibility for the climate.
>
>We *all* need to take responsibility for the climate.
>
>When someone vandalizes Bucer's or the New St. Andrews College, the climate 
>is affected.  Likewise when members of the Collegiate Reformed Fellowship 
>disrupt Gay Straight Alliance meetings, the climate is affected.  When I 
>give in to the impulse to be snotty at the expense of real conversation, 
>the climate is affected.  And when the Christ Church Board asserts that 
>secularists inherently encourage racism and violence, the climate is 
>affected.
>
>Nobody's skirts are clean here.  And in a pluralistic community, each of us 
>is responsible for our own actions, and for what we encourage, support, and 
>abet.
>
>Melynda Huskey
>
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