[Vision2020] Pastor rebuts statements by victim of child abuse
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Wed Apr 20 07:41:51 PDT 2016
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---- Saundra Lund <v2020 at ssl1.fastmail.fm> wrote:
> When one is dancing the limbo, it's a good thing to see how low one can go.
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> When one is trying to defend the indefensible, as Wilson tried to do with
> his role in the handling of child sexual abusers at the expense of the
> survivors, seeing how low one can go is a bad thing.
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> If one is too stupid - or narcissistic - to know the difference, one has
> absolutely no business professing to be a pastor.
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> Wilson's pathetic attempted rebuttal simply reveals him to be the steaming
> pile of dung he actually is.
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> I think I've posted it before, but in addition to Tom's link, for those not
> interested in swallowing Wilson's disgusting load but who are interested in
> learning more about Wilson's actual role with his two known child sex
> abusers, a great resource is:
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> http://moscowid.net/
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> And for more of Natalie's perspective of how she and her family were
> treated:
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> http://natalierose-livewithpassion.blogspot.com/
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> Saundra Lund
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> Moscow, ID
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> I distrust those who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice
> it always coincides with their own desires.
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> ~ Susan B. Anthony
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> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
> On Behalf Of Kenneth Marcy
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 5:40 AM
> To: Moscow Cares <moscowcares at moscow.com>; Moscow Vision 2020
> <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Pastor rebuts statements by victim of child abuse
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> With hardly abated breath one awaits the next headline:
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> Serial rebutting gets community's pastoral goat
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> Ken
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> On 4/19/2016 3:24 AM, Moscow Cares wrote:
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> Courtesy of today's (April 19, 2016) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
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> Pastor rebuts statements by victim of child abuse
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> Christ Church was not involved in the sentencing of a pastor-in-training
> about 10 years ago for felony injury to a child, Doug Wilson, senior pastor
> of Christ Church in Moscow, wrote Monday in an email to the Daily News.
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> He was responding to a story, "Survivors: 'Listen to me,' " on Page One of
> the April 15 edition.
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> The victim in the case, Natalie Greenfield, who spoke April 14 at the
> University of Idaho, detailed her seduction as a 13-year-old by the man who
> was 10 years older. She was quoted as saying that "Christ Church fought for
> him tooth and nail."
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> "The Greenfields could have insisted on going to trial, and they were the
> ones who decided not to," Wilson wrote. "My understanding is that the reason
> they decided not to is because Jamin (Wight) had journals in his possession,
> written by Natalie, that he could have used in his defense in open court."
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> She alleges the church told her parents not to go to trial, and church
> members wrote to the court on her abuser's behalf and brought her own
> character into question.
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> "A plea deal was settled, which Christ Church had nothing to do with,"
> Wilson wrote. "The reason Jamin 'got off light' was entirely due to the
> arrangement the Greenfields made with the state of Idaho."
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> Wilson wrote, "Jamin deserved the punishment he received, and I happen to
> believe that he could have received a stricter punishment without any
> injustice.
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> "So if you want to blame someone for the sentence, then you need to limit
> your candidates to the state of Idaho and the Greenfields," he wrote.
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> He wrote that Natalie's father might object to that account of things.
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> Wilson went on: "He is (literally, not just figuratively) a flat-earther.
> And the reason for bringing this up is NOT because flat-earthers deserve to
> have their daughters abused, but rather because flat-earthers ought not to
> be trusted when it comes to what constitutes reasonable evidence."
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> The Greenfields were members of Christ Church. Wight, of Potlatch, stayed at
> their house in Moscow's Fort Russell neighborhood, but he attended Trinity
> Reformed Church, headed at the time by Peter J. Leithart, a faculty member
> at New Saint Andrews College.
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> Leithart wrote of that time in a Facebook posting in September.
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> Of Jamin Wight, he wrote, "I allowed him to manipulate me. A number of the
> things I said about Jamin to the congregation and court at the time his
> abuse was uncovered were spun in Jamin's favor.
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> "I trusted his account of the circumstances more readily and longer than I
> should have, and conversely I disbelieved the victim's parents," Leithart
> wrote. "I didn't appreciate how much damage Jamin did, and I was naive about
> the effect that the abuse had on the victim's family."
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> Case #2005-02500 (Jamin Wight)
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> http://www.tomandrodna.com/Jamin_Wight/
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> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
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> "Moscow Cares"
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> Tom Hansen
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> Moscow, Idaho
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