[Vision2020] an apology

[J Ford]

Now THIS is a Lady, with Class.

Thanks for the clarification.



J  :]





>From: "keely emerinemix" <kjajmix1 at msn.com>
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] an apology
>Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:49:24 -0700
>
>
>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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