[Vision2020] was "define libelous"

[keely emerinemix]

Someone's blog buddies have gone out of their right minds to try to cast any 
objection to yesterday's "Wil Hendrick" post as rank hypocrisy and evidence 
of seething hatred of the Kirk, when the objections I read, including my 
own, said nothing about Christ Church or anyone in it.  And I don't assume 
that the vile piece of excreta was written by a Kirker; I would be surprised 
if it were.  Further, I think the harm was not to Wil's reputation, but to 
Mr. Schutz's, and for that I express my outrage again.

Now, let's see how Doug Farris and Dale Courtney's bloggers can connect that 
-- and me -- to other evils all around us.  That sounds like a nice Doug 'n' 
Dale clubhouse game, with Chris Witmer getting extra points -- marbles?  
baseball cards? -- for each time he uses the word "sodomite."  I'm not sure 
what the prize is for being the first kid on the block to dismiss my 
evangelicalism outright, but I bet it comes with bubble gum.  Neat-o!

Wouldn't it be nice if the largest purportedly Christian witness in the 
community, much less on Vision 2020, simply condemned the email and its 
author immediately, unequivocally, and in terms at least as harsh as it 
condemns bad wine and food?

keely emerine mix


From: <heirloom at moscow.com>
To: lpall at moscow.com
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Please define libelous? You're the lawyer, you tell 
me!
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:49:11 GMT

Dear Miss Pall,

On V2020 you wrote: ‘That tore it. The anonymous, libelous posting...’ you
also said the list is flawed and ‘…it needs to be reformed.’

I’m sure you know the state code for Libel, but for the benefit of the
lesser trained audience here it is in black and white: TITLE 18 CRIMES AND
PUNISHMENTS CHAPTER 48 - LIBEL 18-4801.
LIBEL DEFINED. A libel is a malicious defamation, expressed either by
writing, printing, or by signs or pictures, or the like, tending to
blacken the memory of one who is dead, or to impeach the honesty,
integrity, virtue or reputation, or publish the natural or alleged
defects, of one who is alive, and thereby to expose him to public hatred,
contempt or ridicule.

When Tom Hansen, Nick Gier and others quote from 'Dougsploch' is that not
equally anonymous and libelous? When Junior Varsity
Douger ‘j_v_douger at yahoo.com’(and all of his other pseudonyms, New Man,
Captain Kirker, etc, etc, etc.) makes statements about a citizen of the
community and puts his address on the net so that the individual is afraid
for their family members is that not equally anonymous and libelous? Where
was your angst and outrage at those times. When a so-called history
teacher at a state sponsored institution makes statements about a dead man
on Moscow mountain and in the process impugns his character is that not
libelous? As I recall you, B.J. Swanson, Joan Opyr, Melynda Huskey, Keely
Emerine Mix, JeanC, Shirley Ringo, Bill London, Darrell Keim, Sunil
Ramalingam, Barrett Schroeder and Nils Peterson, were all silent for these
instances!

Maybe you all should plug the name of Jack Van Deventer, Doug Jones, Doug
Willson, Dale Courtney, Roy Atwood, Tom Garfield, Peter Leithart, Bob
Hieronymus or Paul Kimmell into your V2020 post and let me know if you
still feel the same way. I thought that B.J. Swanson said it best: ‘at
least a public shaming is in order.’ Maybe you could all line up, put the
fellow in stocks in friendship square and you could all pick up ‘5 smooth
stones’ and cast them at the culprit.

“Let him that is without sin cast the first stone!”


lemeno Doug!


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