[Vision2020] Straight from the Horses Mouth (or perhaps, elsewhere)

[Darrell Keim]

I have sometimes found the writings of Pastor Wilson to be a good guide in
helping me decide how to vote.


On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Saundra Lund <v2020 at ssl1.fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Thanks, Rose, for posting the below.  Now that the election is behind us,
> I will comment on one – and only one -- part of the bigoted lies most of us
> know Dough Wilson to be famous for.
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> Doug Wilson wrote:
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> It is not necessary to use all three of your votes, but it is important
> not to use any of them in favor of Rebecca, a woman who uses exclamation
> marks on her yard signs, a thing which ought not to be done.
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> And that, folks, is confirmation that whatever stones Wilson once had,
> he’s long since lost them and is now nothing more than a garden variety
> lily-livered liar.
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> In the past, Wilson’s spittle-flecked bloviations at least would have been
> honest (from his perspective) if morally bankrupt.  “You must not,” he
> would have spewed, “vote for Rebecca Rod.  First, she’s a woman, and it’s
> unbiblical for women to have any authority among men.  The scourge of
> feminism *must* be stopped!  Even more importantly in this case, is that
> the She-Devil is a <gasp> *lesbian!*  I have preached *many times* that
> God has removed his protection from this nation for three reasons:
> feminism, homosexuality, and abortion. To vote for this Rod woman is to
> vote for a candidate that will ensure that God will continue to turn His
> back on America, and you will be dammed to hell for all eternity should you
> vote for this “person”!”
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> We’ll ignore, for a moment, the exclamation marks used in Wilson’s
> based-on-fact hypothetical diatribe  J
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> No matter what one thinks of the hate & incivility Wilson & his toadies
> routinely spew, we could count on him to *not* hold back on using his Big
> Three as justification for attacking community members.
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> Not anymore.  Now, he’s apparently come up with a new code (similar to his
> “Intolerista” label) in which using exclamation punctuation is The Scarlet
> Letter, if you will, to mark those in the LGBTQ community.  What a sad ,
> fat, impotent little man he’s become in the sunset of his life.  I guess
> the unbiblical hate that he routinely preaches has finally consumed the
> last of his soul.  What a surprise . . . not.
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> What *is* a genuine surprise, though, is that Moscow’s conservative base
> apparently hasn’t figured out that Wilson is a washed-up has been on the
> national scene.  He’s no longer respected outside a few truly fringe
> groups.  He is simply old news with no power outside, no national draw, no
> longer able to even successfully import converts other than those with
> mental health issues that make things like patriarchy attractive to the
> miscreants.  His message has become too offensive for respect even amongst
> other conservative Evangelicals . . . yet local wingnut conservatives still
> think he’s something other than a bigoted hate-monger.  Behind the times
> much?
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> One last comment, although this one is directed at the GMA.  There are
> more than a few intelligent, articulate, successful Republican business
> women in Moscow, yet GMA chose to *again *run a white male only slate of
> candidates for the City election.  What on earth is wrong with the GMA and
> its leadership?!
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> And, perhaps more importantly, what on earth is wrong with the Moscow’s
> Republican woman that they wouldn’t expect a seat at Moscow’s GOP table?!
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> Perhaps, just perhaps, this was the wake-up call those in the community
> needed to understand that it’s up to *us* to demand that Moscow’s GOP &
> GMA quit trying to set this community back 50 or more years by only
> allowing white males at the table.
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> At least, that’s my hope.
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> Because, unfortunately, the GMA has shown that’s the direction it’s
> consistently driving in for Moscow.  Again, behind the times much?  I guess
> so.
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> Saundra
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> Moscow, ID
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> Well-behaved women seldom make history.
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> ~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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> *From:* vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:
> vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] *On Behalf Of *Rosemary Huskey
> *Sent:* Monday, November 04, 2013 10:51 AM
> *To:* 'Moscow Vision 2020'
> *Subject:* [Vision2020] Straight from the Horses Mouth (or perhaps,
> elsewhere)
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> Voting in a Wobbly Canoe<http://dougwils.com/s7-engaging-the-culture/voting-in-a-wobbly-canoe.html>
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> Posted on Monday, November 4, 2013<http://dougwils.com/s7-engaging-the-culture/voting-in-a-wobbly-canoe.html> by
> Douglas Wilson <http://dougwils.com/author/admin>
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> Yesterday I exhorted the saints<http://dougwils.com/the-church/political-not-partisan.html#more-105659>at Christ Church to make sure that they voted in our local election
> tomorrow. In the course of that exhortation I said that it was not the
> church’s business to descend into partisan factionalism, but that it was
> our responsibility to pray that we would be allowed to “lead a quiet and
> peaceable life” (1 Tim. 2:2 <http://biblia.com/bible/esv/1%20Tim.%202.2>).
> I said that we ought to be voting in the same direction as our prayers,
> which means that we should be voting in the direction of civil magistrates
> leaving us alone. That would include doing something about zoning
> commissions that are used as a cat’s paw for various intoleristas.
>
> Having said that, I was asked several times about something I said in the
> pulpit last year,<http://dougwils.com/s8-expository/pulpit-freedom-2.html>and was also challenged online because of my
> recent comments<http://dougwils.com/s7-engaging-the-culture/rabbits-should-know-what-hawks-look-like.html>about evangelical pastors who had voted for Obama the second time.
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> The first link in the previous paragraph goes to a sermon outline I
> preached on Pulpit Freedom Sunday. In that sermon I endorsed, or came close
> enough to it as makes no difference, a candidate for the state legislature,
> a man named Gresham Bouma. How does that fit with what I said yesterday?
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> I do believe that the church should stay out of partisan politics, but I
> believe this on theological grounds. The rule should be a *church*standard, and this means the IRS has absolutely no authority to be setting
> restrictions on what ministers may say. So the first point is that this was
> said as part of a nationwide challenge to the IRS. This was made possible
> by the candidacy of Gresham, a well-known member of our Christian community
> operating with a biblical worldview — a man who fears the Lord, is a man of
> truth, and who hates covetousness (Ex. 18:21<http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Ex.%2018.21>).
> It was an exceptional circumstance for a specific situation.
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> In the current race, we have candidates who represent the officious left,
> and candidates who represent views more friendly to economic growth — but
> no one is representing a full-orbed biblical approach to anything. To use
> the power of the pulpit to lean this way or that in a wobbly canoe would be
> inappropriate.
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> In short, to say that the pulpit should never be partisan does not mean
> that it can never be personal. It *can* be personal, but that is rare.
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> On the Obama question, the question is simpler and much more
> straightforward. He supports the killing of babies and therefore no
> consistent Christian may support him. That is not a partisan issue, and it
> only appears to be such because the Democratic Party has been captured by
> bloodthirsty ghouls.
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> One last thing. This blog is owned and operated by me, the proprietor, and
> is not supported in any way with tithe money, which means that I am
> functioning here as a private citizen, albeit a noisy one in a party hat.
> That means I can say I voted for Lambert instead of Chaney, and in the
> council race, the voter has three votes that he can spread over four
> candidates. It is not necessary to use all three of your votes, but it is
> important not to use any of them in favor of Rebecca, a woman who uses
> exclamation marks on her yard signs, a thing which ought not to be done. So
> I voted for the three non-Rebeccas. Those who are interested in more
> information can check with the Greater Moscow Alliance<http://www.greatermoscow.org/>
> .
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> It would be nice if we could get to a place where smart growth officials
> would quit giving each other awards for the achievement of empty lots,
> which we already had, and which are not exactly the pyramids.
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