[Vision2020] Slander by what standard?

[Douglas]

Dear visionaries,

My faults are many and grievous. But I am not guilty of all vices, and one 
of the places where I do just fine is in not taking offense when someone 
"pokes fun." If you stick your head through the canvas in the booth at the 
county fair, you can't act surprised when people throw softballs at it. But 
I can assure you that the behavior of Mr. Stambler that I was referring to 
had nothing whatever to do with poking fun.

So, an open invitation to all my critics. Poke fun as you like. Liberty 
hall. I frequently get a good chuckle myself when one of you lands a good 
one -- Joan O comes to mind.

At the same time, being mortal, I do prefer it when my critics argue in 
such a way as to poke fun at themselves, as when they raise charges of 
white supremacy, presbyterian cultishness, and homophobia falsely 
so-called. Like Wayne Fox's letter to the editor last night. Anti-Semitism? 
It is comparatively hard to get a conservative minister like myself to 
think something like "what the hell?" But at least I didn't say it.

Cordially,

Douglas Wilson