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<P><FONT size=2>"Why should she? Why should anyone? " That is a question you should ask yourself. Why are you doing this? </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>If you apply the same amount of passion to "outing" every other lawbreaker in Moscow **then**<U><EM> </EM></U>I will believe you are not targeting a specific group. </FONT> </P>
<P>Simple as that.<BR><BR><BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>From: <I>Joan Opyr <joanopyr@moscow.com></I><BR>To: <I>"kerry becker" <kerrybecker6924@hotmail.com></I><BR>CC: <I>Vision2020 Moscow <vision2020@moscow.com></I><BR>Subject: <I>Re: [Vision2020] Complaints Filed Against Boarding Houses</I><BR>Date: <I>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:06:03 -0700</I><BR>>On Apr 13, 2006, at 9:59 AM, kerry becker wrote:<BR>><BR>>>"What other group is doing it??" <BR>>><BR>>> Why don't you take your camera and find out? If you are not <BR>>>biased, then I would hope you would extend your research for all <BR>>>Moscow residents.<BR>>><BR>><BR>>Here's a question for you, Kerry Becker: >position of compelling the City of Moscow to enforce its own zoning <BR>>laws? We have city administrators who are paid hefty
salaries to <BR>>ensure that the law, as written, is enforced without prejudice. At <BR>>present, the law is not enforced against members of the Wilson <BR>>Church. It is enforced against others. Why is this? Is it because <BR>>the city staff fear the empty cries of religious persecution? Or is <BR>>it because they're tapped out in the brains department? No one can <BR>>or should care what god you worship or what church you attend when <BR>>you break the law, but in the City of Moscow, we do care. New St. <BR>>Andrews is a serial zoning violator. Why is it located in the <BR>>Central Business District, contrary to zoning ordinance and contrary <BR>>to the Comprehensive Plan, without penalty? The law has been <BR>>changed by the Moscow City Council so that
Doug's school can stay in <BR>>its present location. How, exactly, is that persecution? It looks <BR>>to me like a hell of a big favor.<BR>><BR>>The Unitarian Universalist Church has been advised by the city that <BR>>they cannot expand at their present location. I would suggest that <BR>>they go ahead and expand anyway. They should thumb their collective <BR>>noses at the city and begin building. Once they're done, they can <BR>>say, echoing Doug Wilson's logic, "We're here. We've spent a lot of <BR>>money. We're great neighbors. Why are you persecuting us? It's <BR>>because we're liberal, isn't it? It's because you hate our open <BR>>theology." Tell me: do you think that would work? No, me neither. <BR>>The
UUs are law abiding. They actually care about secular <BR>>government.<BR>><BR>>Finally, why should anyone feel obliged to demonstrate to you or <BR>>Robert Sentz or Doug Wilson that they are "without bias" before <BR>>taking action against yet another flagrant violation of the law? <BR>>You ask "what other group is doing it?" I'll toss this question <BR>>right back at you. What other group has persistently, repeatedly, <BR>>and openly flouted the law in the way that Christ Church has done? <BR>>Have the Catholics or the Mormons or the Presbyterians established <BR>>an educational institution in the Central Business District? Have <BR>>the Lutherans claimed tax exemptions to which they were not legally <BR>>entitled? Have the Baptists (Southern, Free Will, or American)
<BR>>organized multi-student boarding houses in R-1 residential zones <BR>>AFTER having been told by the city more than 6 years ago that said <BR>>boarding houses are not allowed and are not legal? The answer is <BR>>no; none of these other religious groups have done this, and I have <BR>>to say that the Jews and the Muslims, the Methodists and the <BR>>Wiccans, all seem to have been behaving themselves as well.<BR>><BR>>I don't know Diane Baumgart, the woman who filed the petition <BR>>against these boarding houses, gathering more than forty non-Huskey <BR>>signatures in the process. I admire her courage and her fortitude, <BR>>though, because she's about to be hit with the water cannon of Doug <BR>>Wilson's ready lachrymosa. It'll be boo-hoo, poor us, while the <BR>>serrated edges fly and the snotty,
offensive "good soldier" cracks <BR>>flare. Lost in it all will be the fact that no one should pay good <BR>>money for a single-family house in an R-1 zone only to find that an <BR>>illegal student flop house has sprung up next door. No one should <BR>>have to put up with her quiet, peaceful street being turned into the <BR>>site of a borstal: cars everywhere, no ready parking, students <BR>>driving up over one's lawn, tossing trash onto the grass, coming and <BR>>going at all hours, and making the sort of racket that only a group <BR>>of 18-21 year olds can make.<BR>><BR>>(And, please, don't give me a load of old rubbish about how we're <BR>>not talking about ordinary students here but good Christian kids <BR>>with nice haircuts and Wally Cleaver sweater vests. If you do, I'll <BR>>be obliged to publish
an annotated list of all the lovely preachers' <BR>>daughters I dated back in the day. Those Southern girls can sure <BR>>put away the bourbon.)<BR>><BR>>Here is the world according to Doug Wilson and NDW, the hot air <BR>>apparent:<BR>><BR>>1. Christ Church does not respect secular law.<BR>>2. Christ Church breaks secular law all the time.<BR>>3. Christ Church is a law unto itself.<BR>>3. If we "infidels" insist on the enforcement of secular law, this <BR>>will be treated as a form of religious persecution. Unless, of <BR>>course, we can find a Zoroastrian or a Hindu or a Buddhist to punish <BR>>for doing exactly same thing as the Christ Church culprit.<BR>><BR>>Imagine if law enforcement had to follow the Wilson model in all its <BR>>actions. We couldn't prosecute a Baptist DUI until we could pair
<BR>>the culprit with a drunk-driving Methodist. Speaking of which, do <BR>>you know the difference between a Baptist and a Methodist? A <BR>>Methodist will say hi when he meets you in the liquor store.<BR>><BR>>Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment<BR>>www.joanopyr.com<BR>><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></div><br clear=all><hr> <a href="http://g.msn.com/8HMBENUS/2734??PS=47575" target="_top">Save time by starting a search from any Web page with the MSN Search Toolbar-FREE!</a> </html>