[Vision2020] Wilson on the Execution of Homosexuals

[Art Deco]

Nick,

These links are still available:

Dickison: Know Where To Draw the Line
http://www.credenda.org//old/issues/vol3/magi3-11.htm

Dickison: Your Eye Shall Not Pity
http://www.credenda.org/old/issues/vol3/magi3-9.htm

[If these links disappear, I have copies of them which can be sent to any requester.]


Should it surprise anyone that once again Wilson tells a public lie?  And a stupid lie given the documents available?

The Cultmaster's statement:

"I resolved a long time ago that I would not be ashamed of anything in the Bible."

is the last sentence of the article found in the LMT archives at
http://www.lmtribune.com/archives/index.php?action=show_story&story_id=2003102300481

Or enter the LMT archives and use

"doug wilson" ashamed

as the search parameter.


Michael writes and asks:

"Combine these three practices, and I think you get the correct rhetorical formula.  Because of this, I would be surprised that Wilson actually ‘corrected’ recent teaching; could someone provide the text or a link to this public statement?  Thanks."
 
Unfortunately, the Cultmaster with soooo many important things to do did not provide an exact URL to his alleged change of heart about the execution of homosexuality in his letter to the editor.

I remember him talking about exile instead of death for homosexuals at one time quoting Timothy.  I looked it up at the time but concluded that perhaps Wilson had had a more than a tad too much table wine when he wrote such an interpretation of the verses ostensibly cited.  If someone can provide the exact verses the Cultmaster cited, then I will post their text from Young's Literal Interpretation of the Bible.  Then we could discuss his "interpretation" and whether there are inconsistencies in the Bible.


Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)
deco at moscow.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <nickgier at adelphia.net>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 9:54 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] Wilson on the Execution of Homosexuals


> Greetings:
> 
> So, Doug Wilson has had so many "fish to fry" that he is just now publicly announcing, 3 1/2 years later, that a quotation on the death penalty for homosexuals as reported in the December 11, 2003 edition of the "Daily News" was a "gross distortion" his views.
> 
> He claims that the focus of that debate was on slavery, so that he didn't have time to correct this distortion.  But if you read Wilson's columns (he was alloted three to the opposition's two) and the ads by Christ Church, you will find that Wilson states very clearly that the issue was homosexual marriage and liberal intolerance.  What a perfect opportunity for Wilson to correct the distorted quotation.
> 
> Can any reasonable person believe that Wilson has not had time in the intervening 3 1/2 years  to correct this view?  Isn't more credible that his critics have correctly reported and repeated this outrageous position so much that Wilson had to either take responsibility for his remarks or shift his position and salvage it somehow?  He tried this on slavery and now he's doing it with regard to homosexuality.
> 
> In his blog entry "Execution of Homosexuals" (August 30, 2005) Wilson begins by changing the topic.  In December, 2003, the topic was the Bible's view on slavery, which Wilson defended.  What followed naturally and logically was the Bible's position on homosexuality, and that is where Wilson defended execution or banishment. Wilson's position was that one should never apologize for the Word of God.
> 
> It is significant that no where in the August, 2005 blog entry does he say how his December, 2003 statement was a distortion.  All that he essentially does in his blog entry is to turn the question to something very different: "how homosexulaity should be addressed by the civil magistrate (if that magistrate were somehow to care about what Scripture teaches.)"  The other tactic Wilson takes is to attempt to become a good Christian (keep trying, Doug!), by saying correctly that Christ changes everything with regard to enforcing Old Testament law.  
> 
> Interestingly, this was not the position of Greg Dickison in his articles "Your Eye Should not Pity" and "Know Where to Draw the Line" (Credena Agenda, vol. 3, nos. 9, 11).  As far as I know, Wilson has not disputed this article, but mysteriously this entire volume has disappeared from the Credenda archives.  Dickison offers no flexibility or grace for the Christian magistrate, who, "when we have it our way," will enforce Old Testament law without exception, for to pity the sinner is itself a sin.
> 
> So when Wilson's Christianity hits the pagan and unreconstructed Christian beach chairs like a tsunami (it's right there in "My Town") and when only propertied Christian males will be voting (also in "My Town"), I am certain that Dickison will be appointed the first Christian magistrate and their eyes will not pity.
> 
> Yours for no Wilsonian Tsunamis,
> 
> Nick Gier
> 
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