[Vision2020] in a better world ...

[Glenn Schwaller]

Huh.  Seems about a year ago a few of Moscow's best were chortling about
what a great idea it would be if "someone" were to sexually abuse Doug
Wilson's grandchildren.  "Ho what a great idea!"  "That otta teach him!"
"Maybe he'll learn something"  etc etc etc.

Now I certainly do NOT condone any statement about lynching homos nor
siccing pedophiles on anyone's grandchildren. But it seems once again the
Visionary Vigilantes think it's horrible, deplorable and just plain sick to
make light of someone political/religious perspective by using an example
homosexual in nature (granted, not the greatest possible avenue one could
have chosen) but allowing Wilson's grandchildren to be sexually assaulted is
a fine and worthwhile thing.  Seems to me it's the same bunch who staged the
"Let's all meet at FRIENDSHIP SQUARE and stage a shut down the peaceful,
religious, family and community oriented Trinity Festival.

Why am I not surprised . . .  So my (rhetorical) question? Who really is
sick, horrible, and deplorable?

GS

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 11:42 AM, keely emerinemix <kjajmix1 at msn.com> wrote:

>
> Visionaires,
>
> Never would I have thought that I would live in a community whose most
> well-known and powerful pastor, one who claims to be a Trinitarian Christian
> and a Bible teacher, would behave in the  hostile, hateful, and horrendous
> manner that Douglas Wilson of Christ Church has.  During my six and a half
> years of living in Moscow and loving it, I have been beyond dismayed at his
> theology, teaching, and engagement with the community, and I've learned not
> to be surprised at what comes from his pen or out of his mouth.  But I find
> that he yet has the ability to shock me, owing more to his crass conduct
> than to my naivete, and this morning offers another example.
>
> In a column bashing Pastor Greg Boyd's new book on the idolatry of
> Christians in claiming the United States as a "Christian nation," and
> throwing themselves into politics in an attempt to make the kingdom of God
> right here, right now, Wilson complains that Boyd has no basis, then, for
> judging anything to be wrong.  His serrated edge flashing, he says that, for
> example, if he told Boyd his church spent last night "lynching homos -- you
> shoulda been there!", Boyd couldn't reasonably object.
>
> Boyd won't, because Wilson's pontificating has, thankfully, a limited
> audience.  But I can, and I do.  In fact, my 15-year-old son Jonah and I
> both responded to Wilson on his Blog and Mablog, and while my son responded
> to the church/state issue, I'm as proud of him as I am embarrassed, once
> again, by the man who would like to be thought of as the Bishop of the
> Palouse.  I invite you to read my comments there.  If not, let me state in
> the most concrete way that I can:
>
> For a pastor to make a point, any point, by using "lynching homos" as an
> example, one of hyperbole and excess, is despicable, particularly given the
> virulent homophobia Wilson has espoused.  And for none of his readers to
> complain is, while predictable, most disappointing.  In a perfect world, or
> even a mildly better one, other Christians would howl in protest, rebuking
> Wilson immediately and publicly.  It ain't that kind of world, though.  And,
> hesitant church leadership notwithstanding, it's frankly just as sad to me
> that many of you don't want to comment, object, or even know -- and wish I
> would just shut up about the whole thing.
>
> Sorry, but I can't do it.  What I can and will do, however, is begin my own
> very publicized, very pointed blog devoted to defending the Gospel by
> correcting bad theology both within the Kirk and from other sources.  I
> don't know what to call it yet, and I don't know how to design it, but I
> intend to never let up 'til the day I die . . .
>
> The stakes for our community are high, higher than most Moscow residents
> realize.  But the stakes are even higher for the message of peace and
> reconciliation, justice and love, spoken and lived by the Lord Jesus Christ
> and sullied by Wilson, et al.  If Christ means anything to me,  I can
> certainly endure the scorn of my neighbors and the mocking of the boys at
> the Kirk by writing against them.  I'll still write on Vision, and still
> write about Christ Church as relevant to the discussion, but the content of
> my blog will be theology, gender and peace-and-justice issues, and scathing
> critique of those who spew bigotry in the name of Christ.
>
> As a stay-at-home mom with a fairly useless BA from a quarter-century ago,
> I may be "just a housewife" to some at the Kirk -- but if I am a housewife,
> I am a thundering one, and I can't be silent.
>
> Keely
>
>
>
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