[Vision2020] an apology

[keely emerinemix]

Visionistas,

In my response to Heirdoug after his "I'd rather have a live sodomite or 
Iraqi" comment a couple of days ago, I ripped into him for his gross 
insensitivity and his apparent delight in causing offense when none is 
necessary.

Doug then wrote to tell me that the origin of the "sodomites or Iraqis" 
phrase was from an earlier post by another writer -- Doug just repeated the 
phrase to indicate by comparison his horror regarding abortion.  I found the 
phrase itself in the context he used it utterly nauseating in its seeming 
devaluing of the lives of ("even") homosexuals and Iraqis.

I was wrong in assuming that the phrase originated with him, and I 
apologize.  I made a rush to judgment by presuming that the wording was his 
in describing two obvious examples of life he found somehow to be 
"less-than," and I shouldn't have done it.  I also know that the original 
writer used those words as a rhetorical device to confirm Heirdoug's 
prejudices, and in no way do I feel the disdain for him that I do for Doug.

A more carefuly rendered judgment on my part is this:  Doug Farris, writing 
as Heirdoug, surely must understand that no amount of righteous indignation 
over abortion or any other wrong excuses the rash, gleeful, and 
ill-considered comments that he is prone to make.   Neither his position nor 
the Spirit who informs it is honored by bad behavior that shows the kind of 
contempt for others that makes it hard to accept that he truly values all 
human life.

So . . . my overall criticism of him stands, but in this case, I blew it by 
assuming what I shouldn't have.

keely

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