[Vision2020] Discrimination and the Trinity Fest

[DonaldH675 at aol.com]

Visionaries:
 
As much as I hate puncturing Donovan's self-righteous view of being a  
champion of free speech on the Palouse, I have to correct some erroneous  
impressions of the Trinity Festival, he continues to hold.  
 
1.  The University of Idaho has not established that  the sponsor of the 
Trinity festival is a non-profit entity.  UI asked for  proof of non-profit status 
and they didn't get it.  Instead, they got a  copy of a routine filing with 
the Sect. of State that makes the claim that they  are non-profit.  That claim 
is worthless.  Jim Meyer is exactly right,  proof of 501(c)(3) status would 
provide a fair and equitable way to ensure  that only non-profit groups received 
the non-profit price.  
 
2.  Perhaps Donovan will elaborate on the "legal complaint" filed  to prevent 
people from celebrating "worship with wine."  Who made the  complaint, 
Donovan?   Saundra Lund and I do wonder, and have asked  publicly about the possible 
conflict between church and state, when an activity  that is prohibited by 
law, that is, serving wine to children, takes place in a  state owned facility.  
We have filed no legal complaint about the matter -  although, speaking for 
myself, I would certainly appreciate it if someone  did.  This is an 
interesting constitutional question, and I have no idea  what the answer would be.  In 
the meantime, perhaps the Trinity Festival  folks could apply for and receive 
the alcohol permit that they were told to get  when they signed the contract 
with UI last November.  (And, it is possible  that they have done so since my 
public records request for the UI Trinity  Festival contract was filled early in 
March.)
 
3.  Donovan is right that the UI should treat people  fairly.  With that in 
mind perhaps he can help us to understand  (if he understood it himself) why 
the Trinity Festival is paying $750/day  rental for the Kibbie Dome instead of 
the $2000/day rental listed on the UI  fee schedule for non-profit 
organizations. 
 
4.  Lofty sentiments that urge us to make friends with people we  disagree 
with ring a little hollow, Donovan, when your letter to Jim Meyer  begins with 
the question "Are you serious, sane, and sober?"

5.  What is it, Donovan, that makes you continue to dismiss Christian  
Reconstructionists as a group of fun loving, friendly fellows, who don't really  
mean what they say?  If there is a single lesson that I wish the folks in  Moscow 
could or would learn about Doug Wilson, it is this:  he is not  kidding.  
Because much of his social commentary seems so ludicrous or  peculiar to us, 
don't think for a moment it is funny or peculiar to  him.  Your wish to "make 
friends" is breathtaking in its innocence, naivete  and frankly hubris.  Somehow 
you imagine that you are persuasive  enough or nice enough to breach the 
barriers of misunderstanding and  miscommunication between the Kirk and rest of us.  
A word of  advice, Donovan, Doug Wilson and I understand each other 
perfectly, and neither  one of us is fooled or mislead for a nano-second by the other.  
You mistakenly believe, that there is a happy middle ground  where differing 
opinions should be given equal merit and equal  respect.    The fact is, some 
ideas are without any merit and deserve  no respect.  Consider what George 
Grant has to say on the subject of  religious and civic tolerance  - and, by the 
way, if you think Doug Wilson  believes differently, I invite you to ask him 
to publicly repudiate the  following.  Hint:  he won't do it.
 
 
"Christians have an obligation, a mandate, a commission, a holy  
responsibility to reclaim the land for Jesus Christ - to have dominion in the  civil 
structures, just as in every other aspect of life and godliness.  
But it is dominion that we are  after. Not just a voice.  
It is dominion we are after. Not  just influence.  
It is dominion we are after. Not  just equal time.  
It is dominion we are after.  
World conquest. That's what  Christ has commissioned us to accomplish. We 
must win the world with the power  of the Gospel. And we must never settle for 
anything less.  
If Jesus Christ is indeed Lord,  as the Bible says, and if our commission is 
to bring the land into subjection to  His Lordship, as the Bible says, then 
all our activities, all our witnessing,  all our preaching, all our 
craftsmanship, all our stewardship, and all our  political action will aim at nothing 
short of that sacred purpose.  
Thus, Christian politics has as  its primary intent the conquest of the land 
- of men, families, institutions,  bureaucracies, courts, and governments for 
the  Kingdom of  Christ. It is to reinstitute the  authority of God's Word as 
supreme over all judgments, over all legislation,  over all declarations, 
constitutions, and confederations. True Christian  political action seeks to rein 
the passions of men and curb the pattern of  digression under God's rule.  
George Grant, The Changing of the Guard (Ft. Worth, TX: Dominion Press,  
1987), pp. 50-51.  _http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/_ 
(http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/worldcnq.htm) worldcnq.htm
Rose  Huskey

"Find out just what people will submit to, and you  have found out the exact
amount of injustice and wrong which will be  imposed upon them; and these 
will continue until they are resisted with either  words or blows, or both. The 
limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance  of those whom they oppress." 
Frederick  Douglass
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