[Vision2020] Doug Wilson Interview

[J Ford]

You are so going to be a good attorney.  Well argued and well written.  
Thank you.


J  :]





>From: "Andreas Schou" <ophite at gmail.com>
>To: Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com>
>CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Doug Wilson Interview
>Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:02:19 -0800
>
>Chas --
>
>There are an incredible number of subjects about which I think it is
>possible to for reasonable people to have reasonable disagreements.
>"Whether or not all homosexuals should be executed" is not one of
>them; "whether or not slavery is morally acceptable" is also not one
>of them. Simply because public disapproval of homosexuality is
>somewhat more socially appropriate in America does not suddenly make
>advocacy of genocide into a subject about which it is reasonable to
>disagree -- which is why I think that attempts at this sort of
>outreach are incredibly wrongheaded. Attempts to meet Christ Church
>halfway only result in a halfway that is equally morally unacceptable.
>
>Further, there is a certain choice to be made -- and it is one that
>white dudes have that other people don't. Picking one set of our
>neighbours, the calm, pipe-smoking ones, leaves another set -- gays,
>lesbians, descendents of slaves, out in the cold. I happen not to
>believe that calmly demanding public execution and religious
>repression while defending the blackest mark on the American
>conscience is somehow preferable to people loudly, aggressively
>clamoring for their own right to live their lives in peace.
>
>I share one belief with Christ Church: that what we hold to be true
>has consequences. I can be friendly, individually, with the members of
>Christ Church, and, frankly, I think people *should*. I also think
>"Hitler Youth" is a bit of a stretch (though I might not if it were my
>particular execution they were calling for). However, being personally
>friendly doesn't make Doug's brand of Christian dominionism something
>that doesn't demand to be exposed, and doesn't make his million-dollar
>religious empire something that doesn't deserve to be financially
>starved out of Moscow.
>
>They feel unwelcome because, in a democracy that admits all creeds and
>colors, they propose that other people's rights oppress them. They
>feel a boundless entitlement to the lives of women and the reigns of
>the state; they complain when the same rules that apply to us all
>apply to them as well. And they have co-opted the language of the
>oppressed to pretend that they are being needlessly persecuted.
>
>I know all this fighting is tiring, and frequently stupid (see also:
>several regular posters here). But the cause is intractably rooted in
>the ideology that Christ Church spreads and their political goals,
>local, regional, and national, however ineffective they might be in
>actualizing them.
>
>-- ACS
>
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