[Vision2020] Appraise the Lord

[Tom Hansen]

That's the way, Gary.

NEVER answer any questions.  Respond with insults, allegations, and
name-calling.

And, please . . . PLEASE . . . close the lid before you flush, ok?

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"Uh, how about a 1-strike law. Death doesn't seem too extreme for a Level-3
sex offender."

- Dale "Comb-Over" Courtney (August 3, 2005)

-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of g. crabtree
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 7:06 AM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com; Joan Opyr
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Appraise the Lord

Joan, pleasure to have you back on the V. I guess running your own vanity 
web forum isn't filling your time the way you might have hoped. To bad about

that.

Many of your passionate, foam flecked assertions,couched in the form of a 
question,  have been answered by myself and others, on this forum and 
elsewhere, but I'll take one more stab at a few of the more ridiculous.

You breathlessly inquire:

> To begin, which of the religious groups you name, Gary, apart from Christ
> Church, have launched concerted, organized, and frequently successful
> attacks against gays and lesbians, local historians and philosophers, the
> University of Idaho, the Moscow City Council, the Latah Economic
> Development Council, city and county zoning code and individual critics?

So where do I go to view the piles of the broken and the battered? Where is 
the memorial to all the fallen philosophers and historians who gave all for 
the cause? The monument to those who gave their last full measure? I am 
fairly certain that evangelizing the homosexual's and responding to remarks 
made by others mentioned in your little screed rises to the level of 
"attack." Should I be wrong perhaps you should have a word with the 
prosecutor and quit wasting time trying to convince me of this groups 
atrocities.

You earnestly ask:

> Further, can you point to some instance in which Moscow's Catholics have
> gone hammer and tongs after Moscow's Protestants?  What about vice-
> versa?  Do we have a hitherto hidden problem here with the Orange and the
> Green?

Can you? Can you point out another congregation in Moscow that is covered in

hammer and tong marks? I sure haven't seen any letters to the editor 
denouncing Unitarians. No handbills excoriating Catholics and nobody 
standing on soapbox's in friendship square preaching the damnation of 
Christian Scientists. Open warfare does not seem to have broken out between 
the sects.

You legitimately query:

> Have any of our local Latter-Day Saints called for the exile or stoning
> of gays and lesbians?

OK. I admit that I have big problems with this, but the individual who made 
this comment is not Wilson and the matter has been addressed thoroughly in 
the C/A as well as on Wilson's blog. I am satisfied that stones are not 
being stockpiled and that the gay community is in no danger. I do hope at 
some point to be able to talk directly to Mr. Dickison and ask him face to 
face what the heck he had in mind with this dumb ass comment.

In closing, please allow me to point out that just because you make bold 
pronouncements and assertions with regard to what Christ Church is and is 
not does not make them revealed truth. Unless you can bring verifiable facts

to the discussion all you spout is your own jaundiced opinion. I am only too

willing to concede that you do a masterful job of taking a minute molehill 
and reshape it into a mighty mountain. Perhaps you could apply this skill to

your "liberal moscow" website. It's clear that you desperately need a hobby.

Yours for a shiny new day,
G. Crabtree