[Vision2020] An open letter to the elders of Christ Church regarding Steven Sitler

[Tom Hansen]

http://www.tomandrodna.com/CR_2005_02027/

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho



On Thu, March 3, 2011 12:11 am, Saundra Lund wrote:
> Well, this is too nauseating to comment more on at this late hour other
> than
> to say that I personally don't find it surprising that this Kirk episode
> sounds like a pitch by the Kirk to bring the Jerry Springer Show to
> Moscow:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jerry_Springer_Show
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> Leave it to Doug Wilson & Christ Church to make local folks think of pure
> trash . . . once again.
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> The mystery to me is why any young woman would choose to lay down with a
> man
> who finds little kids sexually attractive.  I can only assume that the
> thinking is similar to praying The Gay away.
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>
>
> I'm headed off to puke and then shower the disgust off.
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> Saundra Lund
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> Moscow, ID
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> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
> nothing.
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> ~ Edmund Burke
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> plus
> 70 years, Saundra Lund.  Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce
> outside
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> author.*****
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> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
> On Behalf Of Rosemary Huskey
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 9:09 PM
> To: 'vision 2020'
> Subject: [Vision2020] An open letter to the elders of Christ Church
> regarding Steven Sitler
>
>
>
> I have sent the letter below  to Doug Wilson, pastor of Christ Church.  I
> have also notified him that I will post on V2020 any of the ugly remarks
> and
> threats I receive from various and sundry anonymous toadies allied with
> the
> Kirk.  It will be just another way to bring a little light into the
> darkness.
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> An open letter to the Elders of Christ Church, Moscow Idaho
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>
>
> Greetings  to Christ Church Elders Dale Courtney, Dr. John Grauke, Matt
> Gray, Ed Iverson, Mike Lawyer, Csaba Leidenfrost, Ben Merkle, Jim Nance,
> John Sawyer, Wes Struble, Matt Whitling, and Gordon Wilson, and Pastor
> Doug
> Wilson
>
>
>
> According to the Christ Church constitution
> <http://www.christkirk.com/christchurch/constitution.htm> :  "Under
> Christ,
> the authority of the local church is the board of elders or presbyters in
> session. The elders are collectively responsible for ruling/shepherding
> [the
> flock]." How does this spiritual responsibility square with the wedding
> bans
> announced repeatedly in recent church bulletin
> <http://www.christkirk.com/documents/Samuel1.pdf>  [s] concerning the June
> 11, 2011 marriage of former New Saint Andrews student and convicted
> pedophile, Steven Sitler <http://www.tomandrodna.com/CR_2005_02027/> ?
> The
> publishing of the marriage bans strongly suggests that this union has
> received the approval and support of the elders, and most especially your
> pastor, Doug Wilson.  It also serves as a cruel example of your
> willingness
> to brush aside and minimize the pain this man has caused in your faith
> community.  What a squalid illustration of petty, tin-pot ecclesiastic
> power
> run amok.
>
>
> How does this engagement meet your own biblical courtship standards?  Did
> Miss Travis' father interview and approve of Steven Sitler as a worthy
> choice for his daughter?  Does he fully understand Steven Sitler's long
> history of dozens upon dozens of  pedophilic attacks? Have you shared your
> intimate knowledge of Steven Sitler's transgression with her home church
> pastor?  If not, why not? Perhaps one of you is acting in loco parentis
> for
> her - is this how you guard and protect her as a father?  In truth, don't
> all of you represent her spiritual fathers?  Who among you would permit
> Steven Sitler unsupervised, unlimited, parental control over your children
> or grandchildren?  Which of you would allow/bless the union of your
> daughter
> or granddaughter to Steven Sitler?  By what standard do your protect your
> daughters and granddaughters, but not the daughters of other men? Who
> among
> you is defending/urging this marriage, and why is he doing so?
>
>
> It is to be hoped that none of you have been told that marriage is the
> prescription for curing pedophilia - it's not.  It is to be hoped that
> none
> of you have been told or believe that psychiatric therapy, or prescription
> drugs prevent pedophilic behavior - they don't.  It should be abundantly
> clear to you that repentance  (even if sincere) does not cancel out or
> erase
> the offense.   How will you know what harm might occur to children born
> from
> this marriage?   Do you consider Steven Sitler's (potential) children so
> disposable that you can easily abrogate your responsibility for the any
> future acts of pedophilia he might commit in the comfort and convenience
> of
> his own living room?
>
>
> What parallels can be drawn between Matthew
> <http://bible.cc/matthew/27-24.htm> 24:27 and your own tacit acquiescence
> to
> this marriage?  "When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that
> rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the
> multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye
> to
> it."
>
>
> Mrs. Nancy Wilson has written on the duty of a wife to respect her husband
> <http://www.feminagirls.com/2008/07/06/stick-to-your-duties/#more-262> .
> You probably remember that it began "Women want to be led. Of course, we
> don't always act like it. In fact, sometimes we resist it like crazy. But
> despite all this, God has created woman to be led by her husband, and He
> has
> created in the woman the desire for strong male leadership." Where and to
> what to you imagine Steve Sitler will lead his wife?
>
>
>
> Because you profess the doctrine of scriptural inerrancy, how do you think
> Matthew 18:5 applies to your public approval of this marriage?  "But whoso
> shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better
> for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and [that] he were
> drowned in the depth of the sea."  Do you feel righteous and manly when
> you
> look into the innocent eyes of your own children and grandchildren and
> pretend to be a godly man who defends the innocent?  Your acquiescence in
> this abomination is cowardly and despicable.  Shame, shame, shame on all
> of
> you.
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>
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> Rose Huskey
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