[Vision2020] an apology

[heirdoug at netscape.net]

Keely,

I do have one question with regard to the apology you are giving to all 
of the fine folks here.

Am I supposed to extend forgiveness to you for biting my head off or 
for you getting caught biting my head off or for you biting my head off 
without cause knowing that there may be a cause later on? Let me know 
and I will gladly extend it.

Doug!

PS. Oh, J. Ford, I'm still in limbo waiting for Jackie Woolf to grant 
me her forgiveness. Could you let her know.




-----Original Message-----
From: kjajmix1 at msn.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Sent: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 5:49 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] an apology

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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