[Vision2020] open letter to Doug Wilson and Roy Atwood

[keely emerinemix]

Wise words.

keely


From: "Bill London" <london at moscow.com>
To: "Doug Wilson" <dougwils at moscow.com>, "Roy Atwood" <nsadean at nsa.edu>
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] open letter to Doug Wilson and Roy Atwood
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 15:49:23 -0700

There seems to be a pattern developing here.

We now know of two cases of college-age (twenty-plus year old) men, who were 
attending your Greyfriars institute or New St. Andrews, were part of your 
Church community and were boarding with a local Church family.  In both 
cases, the young men were later convicted of sexual molestation of young 
(less than 16 years old) girls in those families.

I suggest that the boarder system you established, combined with your 
patriarchal system of male/female relationships, put those girls at risk.  
The girls are taught to be submissive and subserviant, making them 
essentially powerless when facing a much older male who is much more 
important in the Church hierarchy.  The young men are taught to expect that 
kind of control and are raised in a system of sexual denial.

Considering the likelihood of this happening again, I urge you to end the 
boarder system.
BL


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