[Vision2020] I Heart Doug.

[Alan Stout]

Miss Opry,

   Now see that is what I am talking about. to call a man fat with more
syllables and proclaim your love for him is to rename the rose.  Sigh.


 

I will read what you have suggested and get back to you.   I followed
your name to a Miss Opry of a food CO-OP in Moscow, ID (funny how your
state's abbreviation is ID and there are so many who do not know
themselves) and it states that you are the "laughing stock of the butch
lesbian world."  For that, I am truly sorry.  However, if one is known
by her enemies you may be in as good a company as pastor Wilson.  

 

Al sends

 

-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Joan Opyr
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 10:36 PM
To: Vision2020 Moscow
Subject: [Vision2020] I Heart Doug.

 

To suggest, as Alan Stout does, that Doug's critics all hate him is a
foolish oversimplification.  Some, I'm sure, do hate him, but I don't.
I love him.  Love, love, love.  I hate his ideas, but there's nothing I
like more than an outrageous, colorful, galling character.  No fiction
writer less than Dickens could have made Doug up.  He's over the top.
He's unbelievable.  I don't approve of calling him "the Wolfman" or "the
Cult-Master," but that's because these monikers are too pedestrian for
such an enormously ambitious man.  Doug is an author; he's a pastor;
he's a theologian, a historian, a teacher, a reformer, a philosopher and
a classicist.  He's an expert on racism, sexism, homophobia and the
Civil War.  He knows how we ought to live and whom we ought to marry.
He knows who's going to heaven; he knows who's damned to hell.  Doug is
larger-than-life.  He's a huge figure, floating above the landscape like
a balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.  Surely he ought to be
called something more euphonious and evocative than "Doug Wilson."  He
ought to have a name like Uriah Heap or Nasty Canasta.  He ought to
dress in motley and wear a powdered wig.  Like Mr. Creosote, all it
would take is one wafer-thin mint for Doug to blow sky high.  He's on
the intestinally explosive edge of greatness.

 

I can say with absolute sincerity that Moscow would not be Moscow
without Doug.  His critics don't all come from the left; they come from
everywhere.  The middle, the right, the left of center.  In his writing
and in his preaching, Doug has attacked atheists, feminists, gays and
lesbians, but he hasn't limited himself to these usual suspects.  He's
also attacked Catholics, Mormons, Evangelicals, Muslims, and Reformed
Christians who disagree with him on certain abstruse points of doctrine.
He's even managed to insult Eskimos-not an easy thing to do.  

 

The way I see it, Doug is the Don Rickles of Christian intolerance.
Hang around long enough, and he's bound to rub you the wrong way; hang
around a little longer, and you'll begin to find it funny.  Of course,
that could just be the two-drink minimum talking.

 

I'm never a meanie once I've got my Martini,

 

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment

 

PS: If you really want to learn more about Doug, Mr. Stout, then I
suggest you read his magazine, Credenda Agenda (www.credenda.org), his
blog (www.dougwils.com), and the Vision 2020 archives.  For sheer
entertainment value, it's hard to beat.  Unless, of course, you have
Showtime  Love that "Six Feet Under." 

 


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