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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Miss Opry,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> Now see that is what I am
talking about… to call a man fat with more syllables and proclaim your
love for him is to rename the rose. Sigh… </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I will read what you have suggested and
get back to you. I followed your name to a Miss Opry of a food
CO-OP in </span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Moscow</span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>, </span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>ID</span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> (funny how your state’s abbreviation is ID and there are so
many who do not know themselves) and it states that you are the “laughing
stock of the butch lesbian world.” For that, I am truly sorry.
However, if one is known by her enemies you may be in as good a company as
pastor Wilson. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Al sends</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Joan Opyr<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Saturday,
August 21, 2004</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>10:36 PM</span></font><font
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Vision2020 Moscow<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] I Heart
Doug.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>To suggest, as Alan Stout does, that Doug's critics
all hate him is a foolish oversimplification. Some, I'm sure, do hate him,
but I don't. I love him. Love, love, love. I hate his ideas,
but there's nothing I like more than an outrageous, colorful, galling
character. No fiction writer less than Dickens could have made Doug
up. He's over the top. He's unbelievable. I don't approve of
calling him "the Wolfman" or "the Cult-Master," but that's
because these monikers are too pedestrian for such an enormously ambitious
man. Doug is an author; he's a pastor; he's a theologian, a historian, a
teacher, a reformer, a philosopher and a classicist. He's an expert on
racism, sexism, homophobia and the Civil War. He knows how we ought to
live and whom we ought to marry. He knows who's going to heaven; he knows
who's damned to hell. Doug is larger-than-life. He's a huge figure,
floating above the landscape like a balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day
Parade. Surely he ought to be called something more euphonious and
evocative than "Doug Wilson." He ought to have a name like
Uriah Heap or Nasty Canasta. He ought to dress in motley and wear a
powdered wig. Like Mr. Creosote, all it would take is one wafer-thin mint
for Doug to blow sky high. He's on the intestinally explosive edge of
greatness.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I can say with absolute sincerity that </span></font><st1:City><st1:place>Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>
would not be <st1:City><st1:place>Moscow</st1:place></st1:City> without
Doug. His critics don't all come from the left; they come from
everywhere. The middle, the right, the left of center. In his
writing and in his preaching, Doug has attacked atheists, feminists, gays and
lesbians, but he hasn't limited himself to these usual suspects. He's
also attacked Catholics, Mormons, Evangelicals, Muslims, and Reformed
Christians who disagree with him on certain abstruse points of doctrine.
He's even managed to insult Eskimos—not an easy thing to do. </p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The way I see it, Doug is the Don Rickles of Christian
intolerance. Hang around long enough, and he's bound to rub you the wrong
way; hang around a little longer, and you'll begin to find it funny. Of
course, that could just be the two-drink minimum talking.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I'm never a meanie once I've got my
Martini,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>PS: If you really want to learn more about Doug, Mr.
Stout, then I suggest you read his magazine, Credenda Agenda (<a
href="http://www.credenda.org">www.credenda.org</a>), his blog (<a
href="http://www.dougwils.com">www.dougwils.com</a>), and the Vision 2020
archives. For sheer entertainment value, it's hard to beat. Unless,
of course, you have Showtime Love that "Six Feet Under." </span></font></p>
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