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<DIV><FONT size=2>Good point.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>What I'd like Bouma to address is what he thinks the current
status of state - church separation is and in what way and how he would
seek to change it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>Wayne A. Fox<BR>1009 Karen Lane<BR>PO Box 9421<BR>Moscow, ID
83843</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><A href="mailto:waf@moscow.com">waf@moscow.com</A><BR>208
882-7975<BR></FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=reggieholmquist@u.boisestate.edu
href="mailto:reggieholmquist@u.boisestate.edu">Reggie Holmquist</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=deco@moscow.com
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">Art Deco</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 21, 2010 3:58
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020]
Postcardgate</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>You know what would be interesting? If we made a list of
all the theocratic-leaning legislation that has been introduced and/or passed
in the Idaho legislature in recent years, and asked Bouma how he would have
voted on those specific pieces of legislation and how he would vote on similar
pieces of legislation in the future.<BR><BR>-Reggie<BR><BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Art Deco <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</A>></SPAN>
wrote:<BR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Postcardgate</SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Before saying some
not-well-organized-but-need-to-be-said things below, please let me
make three obvious statements.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">1.<SPAN> </SPAN>I
do not know who sent the infamous postcards.<SPAN> </SPAN>(I did
not get one, but that may be due to a post office error combined with
another factor if one was sent to my rural address.)<SPAN>
</SPAN>There are many rumors, allegations, and a few facts flying
about this incident.<SPAN> </SPAN>It is too early to label this
incident a hoax, or if it is a hoax, what kind.<SPAN> </SPAN>I
believe the local press has been premature and irresponsible in
labeling the incident a hoax at first blush.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">2.<SPAN> </SPAN>I
do not approve or condone anonymous/forged campaign material (if this
is what it is) even when that material may contain statements, though
inflammatory, at least some of which appear to be true.<SPAN>
</SPAN>I hope the perpetrator(s) is/are caught and exposed before the
election.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">3.<SPAN>
</SPAN>If Bouma's religious beliefs reflect the way he thinks about
political issues (and they appear to do so) then it is not only
dishonest but cowardly for him not to reveal his religious beliefs and
how they influence his political positions. <SPAN> </SPAN>Voters
ought not be tricked into buying a pig in a poke.<SPAN> </SPAN>A
previous post on this subject:</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><A
href="http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2010-October/072051.html"
target=_blank>http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2010-October/072051.html</A></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Investigation</SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">I hope that the sheriff's office is going
to an objective, thorough job investigating Postcardgate.<SPAN>
</SPAN>I hope this is not going to be another Sitler style whitewash
and cover-up motivated in part by the sheriff's religious values
rather than his professional duties.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">There is no reason to except the
so-called victim, his associates, and other organizations supporting
his candidacy from suspicion.<SPAN> </SPAN>Bouma appears to be
reaping benefit from the incident as it is being used both to raise
money and sympathy for him.<SPAN> </SPAN>Some of the material
appearing on the postcard appeared on Vision 2020 and other places
before the mailings occurred.<SPAN> </SPAN>The postcard may have
been an attempt to set a backfire.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">This is a case where the investigation
could be greatly expedited and reach the correct result if the county
prosecutor calls for and uses a Magistrate's Inquiry.<SPAN>
</SPAN>Although some people, especially those belonging to certain
churches/cults who believe in Covenantal Dishonesty (it's alright to
lie, even under oath, if it appears to promote God's will), there may
be some people of good conscience that will tell the truth under oath
regardless.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">I don't know what the focus of the
investigation is, but I hope that no time is spent on copyright
violations given the free use provisions of the copyright
laws.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><A
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use"
target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use</A></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">For one thing it appears that Bouma has
not suffered a pecuniary loss, but has actually reaped a pecuniary
benefit.<SPAN> </SPAN>For another, campaign material freely used
and distributed by a candidate is part of political expression/debate
process and is generally exempt from copyright protection.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The postcards appeared to be printed on
either a home printer or a commercial printer using a mail
merge.<SPAN> </SPAN>If you Google</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; COLOR: red">"laser printer"
identification</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">, for example, you will find that for
some printers there is a way to not only identify the kind/brand-name
of the printer a document was printed on, but also in some cases, the
actual individual printer.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Almost all of us hope that all who have
actual evidence (not just fanciful speculation) will communicate it to
the LCSD as quickly as possible.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Real Issue</SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Although the stealth postcards, no matter
who produced and sent them, may be a underhanded, possibly criminal
trick, a much more important issue is at stake.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The anonymous nature of the postcard and
the kneejerk, panic-stricken, overly irrational response to it should
not be allowed to act as a clever smokescreen.<SPAN> </SPAN>The
issue here is Bouma's ability, desirability, and fitness to serve as a
state senator.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">What are Bouma's religious beliefs, how
do they affect his political opinions, how do they affect his attitude
toward certain classes of voters (gays and Mormons, e.g.), and why
does he not have the honesty and courage to reveal and to discuss how
his religious beliefs determine and affect his political
positions?</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Here are some direct quotes from Lloyd
Knerr, pastor of Freeze Church, which <B>Bouma attends and has given
sermons</B>.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">_____________________________________</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0.5in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The religions that
parade under the banner of Christianity are innumerable. I can't help
but think of Mitt Romney standing in front of the cameras the other
day and saying, “Absolutely LDS are Christians. We're as much
Christian as any other main-stream denomination. We believe that
salvation is only through Jesus Christ and we worship Him as our
Lord.”</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0.5in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0.5in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><FONT face="Times New Roman">After Ron Huckabee's
comment this week about Mormons believing that Jesus and Satan were
brothers, I had to read through the chapter on Mormonism in Kingdom of
the Cults. Not only do they indeed believe that Jesus and Satan were
brothers, they deny the Virgin Birth, the sufficiency of Christ's
death on the cross to atone for all sins and such things as God was a
man once just as we are. He achieved such a state of holiness in his
flesh that he was rewarded by becoming the god of this planet. He
showed up here as Adam and later impregnated Mary, who conceived and
produced Jesus. He also had a few kids with the other Mary and her
sister Martha.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0.5in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0.5in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><FONT face="Times New Roman">He [Paul] says, 6
They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over
weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all
kinds of evil desires, 7 always learning but never able to acknowledge
the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these
men oppose the truth — men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith
is concerned, are rejected. 9 But they will not get very far because,
as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.
NIV Did you ever wonder why the J.W.s and the Mormons and their ilk
always do their legwork in the middle of the day? It's because the
women are normally home alone. Every family that I personally know of
who has been indoctrinated by one of these groups has been because the
wife was first deceived.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT
face="Times New Roman">>> </FONT></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0.5in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Glenn Beck is a
Mormon.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">I want to take a couple of minutes and give you
a little information on Mormonism and then decide if you want Beck’s
god to take back America.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0.5in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The Mormon god was
once a human being just like you or I.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">He was born of a human man and woman on a
distant star called, “Kolon.”</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0.5in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><FONT face="Times New Roman">His parents gave him
the name, “Elohim.”</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">He lives, with his thousands of wives, on this
star, “Kolon.”</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">He supposedly lived such a righteous, Mormon
life that he was elevated to become the god of his own world, which
was to be called “Earth.”</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">This god and his wives produced millions of
spirit children.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">All of the gods of the heavenly realms gathered
together to decide which of “Elohim’s” children would be chosen to
become the savior of Elohim’s planet called Earth.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0.5in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><FONT face="Times New Roman">It boiled down to his
two eldest sons, Jesus and Lucifer.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0.5in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Yes, that
Lucifer.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0.5in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Each gave his
campaign speech and Jesus was chosen.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Lucifer was so angry that he took 1/3 of all
the spirit population of Kolon to go to earth with him to oppose his
brother Jesus.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0.5in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><FONT face="Times New Roman">These became his
demons.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Those who remained neutral in the battle
between Jesus and Satan were cursed to be born with black
skin.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0.5in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><FONT face="Times New Roman">This is the Mormon
explanation for the negro race.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Those good, Mormon spirits who supported Jesus
would be born with white skin.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Elohim and one of his many spirit wives came to
earth and begot Adam and Eve.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Many years later, Elohim came to earth and had
sex with the Virgin Mary, who begot Jesus in human form to give his
spirit a body.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">The Mormons teach that Jesus took three wives,
Mary, Martha and Mary Magdalene and fathered many children with
them.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">After Jesus’ death and resurrection, He came to
the Americas and evangelized the Indians.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">I could go on and on about the blasphemy and
the heresy of the Mormon religion, but suffice it to say that when
Glenn Beck tells you that you serve the same god that he does, he’s a
liar.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">I am appalled at the number of Christians who
follow this false prophet.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">He believes that the Constitution of the United
States was directly inspired by God and elevates it even above
scripture.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">He believes that the Mormon church was sent to
earth to protect that Constitution.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">He believes that the salvation of America and
the preservation of our Constitution will only come from the Mormon
church.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">If you think a man’s religion doesn’t make any
difference, the day will come when you will realize that you have been
sadly mistaken.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">I would guess that 90% of estimated half a
million people who attended that rally in D.C. would call themselves
Christian.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">If that’s true, the church in America today is
in greater danger than I ever believed.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0.5in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Solomon was right;
there’s nothing new in this.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Satan and his minions have been rebelling
against the true God since the very beginning and they will all
ultimately fail.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">He has been sending his prophets into the world
since day one.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT
face="Times New Roman">>> </FONT></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">To support homosexual marriage is to call God a
liar.<SPAN> </SPAN>Any church that proclaims different is a
church of Satan.<SPAN> </SPAN>Any person who condones homosexual
marriage is anti-God and anti-Christ.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">______________________________</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The above crackpot quotes are just a few
of what you will find at the Freeze Church website.<SPAN>
</SPAN><A href="http://freezechurch.org/home.html"
target=_blank>http://freezechurch.org/home.html</A></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">For more information go to the church
website and do a site Google search on "abortion"</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Repeat:<SPAN> </SPAN>Freeze Church
is the Church Bouma attends and has given sermons.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">[Sidebar:<SPAN> </SPAN>The
so-called Reverend Lloyd Knerr said of Vision 2020 in the
<I>LMT</I>:</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 5pt 0.5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Knerr said. "And they take them out of context,
twist the wording a little bit, and make it sound like we're all a
bunch of narrow-minded bigots spewing hate and venom at the Freeze
Church."</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">I hope the normal, mentally healthy
reader can appreciate the extreme irony of Knerr's statement to the
sympathetic reporter from the <I>LMT</I>, especially the "bigots
spewing hate and venon (sic)" part.<SPAN> </SPAN>I also hope
that the normal, mentally healthy reader can see the disconnection
between Knerr's sermons and his statements to the
<I>LMT</I>.<SPAN> </SPAN>I greatly fear that Knerr does not
understand what the words "liar" or "give false testimony" means – not
a trait one would generally admire in a pastor.]</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Does candidate Bouma believe the
religious claims of his pastor, the pastor of a church in which Bouma
himself sometimes preaches?</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Does Bouma hold Mormons and gays in the
same kind of hateful contempt as his Pastor Knerr does?</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Bouma, like all the rest of us, is free
to believe in, act upon, and defend his religious credo.<SPAN>
</SPAN>His First Amendment rights are not in dispute.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">What is in dispute is:</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">1.<SPAN>
</SPAN>What exactly are Bouma's religious beliefs, how does justify
belief in them, and how will these beliefs influence his actions,
stands, and votes as a state senator representing a plurality of Latah
County which most likely do not agree with these beliefs, and some of
whom would find themselves satanized by Bouma?</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">2.<SPAN>
</SPAN>If Bouma is unwilling to answer the above question, then does
such dishonesty, stealth, and cowardice render him unfit for public
office.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">For a number of obvious reasons I
personally do want someone who is dishonest and cowardly to represent
me in the state legislature no matter what their views are.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></B> </P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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