[Vision2020] a clearer apology

[keely emerinemix]

Gee, Doug, how 'bout this -- I apologized for biting your head off as 
regards a specific use of words which, it turns out, you didn't come up 
with.  "Getting caught" is a non-issue for me; once I wrote it, I'm 
accountable for it, no matter who sees it.

The apology was to you, not to "the fine folks" on Vision 2020.   I sinned 
publicly by falsely assuming what I did, and so the only right thing to do 
was to apologize publicly.

I will charitably assume that you're truly confused about the nature of my 
apology, and I hope this clears it up.  On the other hand, only you know 
your own heart.  I'm just tired of witnessing the outflow thereof.

keely


From: heirdoug at netscape.net
To: kjajmix1 at msn.com, vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] an apology
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 23:31:16 -0400

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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