[Vision2020] Wedded bliss -- entirely possible without the approval of Greg

[Gregory Dickison]

Dear Melynda:

Alas, we are not on the same page. I checked my last post, and nowhere
therein did I take exception to your use of the term "married." Frankly, you
and Joan can refer to yourselves that way all you want. In my humble
opinion, neither your wishful thinking, the decrees of courts, or the
pronouncements of your goddess will make it so. I do not fret about what
cannot be. I will lose just as much sleep and good humor over you calling
yourself married - none- as over someone who wants to hold himself out as a
poached egg.

But it does seem to matter a great deal to you whether Doug Wilson is a
historian, a racist, a Nazi-sympathizer, or a willing accomplice of all the
lynch mobs and white supremecist wingnuts who now live or have ever gone
before. I'm just wondering why you get the monopoly on the meaning of words
(or why you get to pick the authorities that determine the historical
issue). You think you are married, I think you are not. I think Doug is a
historian and a fine theologian, and you think he's not.

Where does that get us? What is truth? Who's to say?

Gregory C. Dickison
Lawyer & Counselor at Law
Post Office Box 8846
208 South Main #2
Moscow, Idaho 83843
(208) 882-4009

----- Original Message -----
From: "Melynda Huskey" <mghuskey@hotmail.com>
To: <gdickison@moscow.com>; <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Wedded bliss -- entirely possible without the
approval of Greg


> Dear Greg,
>
> We're not on the same page here at all . . .
>
> 1.  I promise, I'm not incensed.  Curious, puzzled, bemused--but not
> incensed.  You, on the other hand, seem a trifle hot under the collar.
But
> perhaps I misconstrue your tone.
>
> 2.  Good gracious, criticize away.  It doesn't hurt me, and it amuses you,
> as the Irishman said when his wife began to beat him (a quotation from
> Charles Dickens--and what a fine time of year this is to re-read *Pickwick
> Papers*).
>
> 3.  Slavery . . . that's where we started.  Slavery.  Let's head back
there,
> shall we?  Dulce desipere in loco, and all that, but on the whole, I think
> the question even of the Revolutionary Mind is more interesting to local
> citizens than you and I arguing about whether or not you think I'm
married.
>
> And then we could dredge up some interesting social history of, say,
> pre-Revolutionary France, and then undoubtedly someone could explain why
> even a thoroughly evil king is better than a Revolutionary Committee, and
> someone else could have read *The Scarlet Pimpernel,* and the ills of the
> guillotine could be explored, and someone could point out that Citoyenne
and
> Comrade are practically the same title . . .
>
> Actually, let's call the whole thing off.
>
> Melynda Huskey
>
>
>
> Go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children,
> Hidden excitedly, containing laughter.
> Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind
> Cannot bear very much reality.
> Burnt Norton, T.S. Eliot
>
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