[Vision2020] Forbidden Planet (was Open Letter)

[joanopyr at earthlink.net]

Pat writes:

> As I have said several times..."until Christ church takes up guns and says
> that we all have to follow them, they have the right to teach as they
wish".
> I probably don't agree with them but I haven't actually heard them only
the
> posts on this site and in the letters to the editors. Which I believe were
> mostly written by those on this site so I fear a certain bias. 


I'll admit to Pat's accusation of bias, but do we really want to wait until
people pick up guns to take on their oft-stated and oft-proven agenda? 
Wouldn't that be poor planning on our part?  Like, say, invading Iraq
without appropriate international sanction or enough troops to keep the
peace?  (Yes, that last statement was meant to be inflammatory.  How's your
blood pressure, Pat?)

Nearly 40 years ago, Richard Nixon cooked up the so-called Southern
Strategy, a means by which he'd wrest the working-class whites of the South
away from the Democratic Party, using race-baiting in a grotesque
divide-and-conquer strategy.  Thanks the divisions in the Johnson
Administration over Vietnam, the Democrats were asleep at the wheel back
then.  They didn't begin to wake up until Bill Clinton's successful run for
office nearly a quarter of a century later.  When it comes to the threat of
a local, state, or national theocracy, I'm in favor of taking pre-emptive
(and nonviolent) action.  I love firearms, and I'm a cracking good shot,
even if I do say so myself, but I don't want to take up arms against Doug
Wilson and his would-be army of Christian Reconstructionists.  I'd rather
win this case via argument; I want to fight it on the merits, not on the
barricades.

Not that I don't have a brand-new pair of steel-toed Chippewa workboots
with which I would be happy to kick Dale Courtney's shifty, weak, pale and
squishy backside from here to Chattanooga.  Bend over, Dale, and feel the
wrath of my ANSI-rated feet!

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.auntie-establishment.com

PS: Keely has made reference to those who would rather lob "Bible bombs"
than address the substance of the "Labor of Love" letter.  I challenge
Dale, Doug, or anyone else affiliated with Christ Church and New St.
Andrews to stop with the sophistry and answer the charges.  Sure, the
charges have been leveled in safe anonymity, but my Christian friends -- of
whom I am lucky to have many -- have assured me that those charges are
Christian in nature and that the rebuke therein is Christian in spirit. 
Doug and Dale need to stop looking in the closet and under the bed and
answer the charges.  What are you afraid of?  There is no boogeyman outside
of your own Id.  (If you're having trouble grasping the concept of this Id
thing, then I suggest you go out and rent "Forbidden Planet."  It's much
easier than reading Freud.)