[Vision2020] Vision2020 Purpose/Question for Potential City Council Membersl

[Tim Lohrmann]

Jim Meyer writes:
  "Do you now or have you ever had any affiliation
with Doug Wilson, his church or his schools? If yes,
do you repudiate him now?"
   
  Hmm....Mr. Meyer, did you by chance live in
Wisconsin in the 1950's? If so, would you mind sharing
who you supported in the U.S. Senate elections in that
state?
   Thanks, TL



--- jim meyer <m1e2y3e4@moscow.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone! I am joining the list because I
> think your mission statement
> summarizes useful and important purposes.
> 
> However, I am perplexed by the content over the last
> month. The majority of
> the posts concern arguments for or against some
> irrelevant idea belonging to
> Doug Wilson or his followers.  It matters not
> whether Doug Wilson is a
> racist or women hater or religious bigot, but it
> does matter if he
> encourages his sheep to run for public office. Why
> aren't we talking about
> that possibility? Citizens of Moscow should take
> great pains to insure that
> we avoid like the plague someone with a religious
> based agenda who decides
> to run for public office, especially someone who
> espouses thoughts that many
> consider to be racist, against women, or against
> other religions.
> 
> To put it differently, I really admire Doug for
> being able to take his
> interest in intellectual masturbation to such
> heights as to make a paying
> business out of it and have hundreds if not
> thousands support his vainglory
> aspirations. Let Doug and his followers have an orgy
> of intellectual
> masturbation. Who cares? Let the Halo Club, in their
> vanity, think
> themselves more wonderful and greater than the rest
> of us--us who they
> designate as heathens (I have personally heard
> Doug's followers call those
> outside the Halo Club to be "heathens"). It is an
> "us" against "them"
> attitude that I find very offensive, and in truth,
> very un-Christian. It is
> an attitude that is certainly inappropriate for
> someone running for public
> office.
> 
> So please, please don't  let the Halo Club run
> Moscow, or represent the
> citizens of Moscow in any way, shape or form.
>
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> These thoughts in mind, it is a fair question to ask
> anyone running for
> public office the following question:
> 
> Do you now or have you ever had any affiliation with
> Doug Wilson, his church
> or his schools? If yes, do you repudiate him now?
> 
> Those of you running for City Council, where do you
> stand?
>
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> 
> Lastly, why don't we all quit playing the
> intellectual masturbation game
> with Doug and his cohorts? Life is too short to
> spend any time at all on
> such insignificance.
> 
> Note: In fairness, I must report that my daughter
> attended Logos School for
> a time. Many or even most aspects of her education
> were good, but there were
> a few things, like the subject of slavery, that we
> as parents used as a
> springboard for further discussion. Interestingly, I
> often think that Doug
> would be better off if he and his followers followed
> Logos's precepts about
> logical argument more closely. Maybe they would make
> a little more sense.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Jim Meyer
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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