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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>I have sent the letter below to Doug Wilson, pastor of Christ Church. I have also notified him that</span></strong> I will post on V2020 any of the ugly remarks and threats I receive from various and sundry anonymous toadies allied with the Kirk. It will be just another way to bring a little light into the darkness.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'>An open letter to the Elders of Christ Church, Moscow Idaho<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'>Greetings to Christ Church Elders Dale Courtney, Dr. John Grauke, Matt Gray, Ed Iverson, Mike Lawyer, Csaba Leidenfrost, Ben Merkle, Jim Nance, John Sawyer, Wes Struble, Matt Whitling, and Gordon Wilson, and Pastor Doug Wilson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>According to the <a href="http://www.christkirk.com/christchurch/constitution.htm">Christ Church constitution</a>: “<i>Under Christ, the authority of the local church is the board of elders or presbyters in session. The elders are collectively responsible for ruling/shepherding</i> [the flock].” How does this spiritual responsibility square with the wedding bans announced repeatedly in recent <a href="http://www.christkirk.com/documents/Samuel1.pdf">church bulletin</a> [s] concerning the June 11, 2011 marriage of former New Saint Andrews student and convicted pedophile, <a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/CR_2005_02027/">Steven Sitler</a>? The publishing of the marriage bans strongly suggests that this union has received the approval and support of the elders, and most especially your pastor, Doug Wilson. It also serves as a cruel example of your willingness to brush aside and minimize the pain this man has caused in your faith community. What a squalid illustration of petty, tin-pot ecclesiastic power run amok.<o:p></o:p></p><h1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>How does this engagement meet your own biblical courtship standards? Did Miss Travis’ father interview and approve of Steven Sitler as a worthy choice for his daughter? Does he fully understand Steven Sitler’s long history of dozens upon dozens of pedophilic attacks? Have you shared your intimate knowledge of Steven Sitler’s transgression with her home church pastor? If not, why not? Perhaps one of you is acting <i>in loco </i></span><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>parentis </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>for her - is this how you guard and protect her as a father?</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'> In truth, don’t all of you represent her spiritual fathers? Who among you would permit Steven Sitler unsupervised, unlimited, parental control over your children or grandchildren? Which of you would allow/bless the union of your daughter or granddaughter to Steven Sitler? By what standard do your protect your daughters and granddaughters, but not the daughters of other men? Who among you is defending/urging this marriage, and why is he doing so? <o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>It is to be hoped that none of you have been told that marriage is the prescription for curing pedophilia – it’s not. It is to be hoped that none of you have been told or believe that psychiatric therapy, or prescription drugs prevent pedophilic behavior – they don’t. It should be abundantly clear to you that repentance (even if sincere) does not cancel out or erase the offense. How will you know what harm might occur to children born from this marriage? Do you consider Steven Sitler’s (potential) children so disposable that you can easily abrogate your responsibility for the any future acts of pedophilia he might commit in the comfort and convenience of his own living room? <o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>What parallels can be drawn between Matthew <span class=reftext><a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/27-24.htm"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>24</span></a>:27 and your own tacit </span>acquiescence to this marriage? <i>“When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal> Mrs. Nancy Wilson has written on the <a href="http://www.feminagirls.com/2008/07/06/stick-to-your-duties/#more-262">duty of a wife to respect her husband</a>. You probably remember that it began “Women want to be led. Of course, we don’t always act like it. In fact, sometimes we resist it like crazy. But despite all this, God has created woman to be led by her husband, and He has created in the woman the desire for strong male leadership.” Where and to what to you imagine Steve Sitler will lead his wife?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Because you profess the doctrine of scriptural inerrancy, how do you think Matthew 18:5 applies to your public approval of this marriage? “<i>But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and [that] he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” </i>Do you feel righteous and manly when you look into the innocent eyes of your own children and grandchildren and pretend to be a godly man who defends the innocent? Your acquiescence<b> </b>in this abomination<b> </b>is cowardly and despicable. Shame, shame, shame on all of you. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rose Huskey<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>