[Vision2020] Politics?

[Carl Westberg]

Now that the election is over (with the results, I would hazard to guess, 
not entirely to Mr. Wilson's liking), and given that he wrote this prior to 
to the election on his blog:  "This is an important election. Some of the 
candidates are willing for the Christians to be run out of downtown, and 
some of the candidates are not willing for that".......I'm going to make a 
brash prediction that there will be no attempt whatsoever to run Christians 
of any stripe out of downtown, and we can move on, living and working 
downtown in peace, harmony, and accord, all while enjoying the offerings of 
any one of the approximately 143 coffee shops we now have in downtown 
Moscow.                                                                      
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                  Carl Westberg Jr.


>From: "Michael" <metzler at moscow.com>
>To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] Politics?
>Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:03:40 -0800
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>Tom Writes:
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>Says who, Mr. Metzler?
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>http://www.tomandrodna.com/CC_Politics/
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>Me:
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>Thank you Tom for the references to your carefully researched primary
>documents.  Those are very helpful. I'd encourage primary document 
>reference
>more and more.  However, after reading these emails, I'm now convinced that
>you are really not concerned about whether or not Christ Church is acting 
>as
>a political organization or that our pastor is really wrongfully involved 
>in
>politics.  It seems clear to me now that you just don't want members of
>Christ Church to have any sort of involvement with politics at all.
>Obviously any mention of local politics on our community email list is what
>disturbs you.  This is remarkable.  The secretary sends out emails about
>every sort of community issue under the sun, and I send out emails about my
>own personal needs, and I've even used it as for business advertising.
>These emails you reference are a mild display of politics interest.  Dale's
>recent email actually seems very strong compared to these.  I'm from 
>Orlando
>Fl, and I've been around conservative churches, mostly evangelical or
>Baptist churches-run of the mill stuff-and it is not unheard of for pastors
>to get up on "the soap box" and speak to political voting issues from the
>pulpit.  It is common for church associations to market political 
>literature
>and act as political organizations.  These emails you reference are 
>actually
>abnormal in their very ginger hands off approach to local politics.  And 
>I'm
>beginning to wonder if there is really much rational common ground we even
>have to discuss the supposed concern about Christ Church's immodest 
>interest
>in politics.  I would think the zoning issue or Dale's blog would be a
>better place to go to for generating the kind of evidence it seems you are
>looking for.
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>Thanks!
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>Michael Metzler
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