<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">How right you are, Mr. Nielsen.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Here is the letter in question</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><iframe src="http://stats-newyork1.bloxcms.com/dnews.com/?title=LETTER%3A%20To%20be%20more%20winsome%20-%20Moscow-Pullman%20Daily%20News%3A%20Opinion&referrer=http%3A//dnews.com/opinion/article_e90ab77a-3e67-5e05-82b8-9ce05ba5916b.html&domain=dnews.com&uri=/opinion/article_e90ab77a-3e67-5e05-82b8-9ce05ba5916b.html%3Fmode%3Dprint" width="0" height="0" frameborder="0" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 0px; height: 0px; float: none !important;"></iframe><h1 style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><font size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LETTER: To be more winsome</span></font></h1><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><strong style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Posted: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 12:00 am</strong></p><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rebecca Rod recently (Letter to the Editor, Feb. 20) expressed her frustration with some in the Christian community when it comes to homosexuality.</span></p><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In an attempt to be more winsome on this issue, local Christians have invited to Moscow Sam Allberry, a Christian minister from the United Kingdom who speaks personally and thoughtfully on this issue. He himself knows same-sex attraction and is the author of "Is God Anti-Gay?"</span></p><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He will be speaking at the University of Idaho Student Union Building Ballroom 7:30 p.m. March 5.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I hope to see you there.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="text-align: start; outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><strong style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jayson Grieser</strong></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="text-align: start; outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow</span></p></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">And here is more information concerning Jayson Grieser, its author.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">What's the problem, Mr. Grieser? Won't Logos School provide facilities to conduct such an event!</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">How much of a donation ($) is required to gain admission to this "event"?</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I would be there, but, alas, I'll be too healthy to attend.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://nsa.edu/academics/jaysongrieser.php">http://nsa.edu/academics/jaysongrieser.php</a></span><br><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br>On Feb 26, 2014, at 10:30 AM, "Nielsen, Ralph (<a href="mailto:nielsen@uidaho.edu">nielsen@uidaho.edu</a>)" <<a href="mailto:nielsen@uidaho.edu">nielsen@uidaho.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><span>In today's (Feb. 26) Daily News there is a letter inviting us to an event in the SUB on March 5 to hear a "Christian" speaker.</span><br><span>Here are my online comments.</span><br><span>*******************************************************************</span><br><span></span><br><span>As soon as I read this letter I smelled Doug Wilson all over it. </span><br><span></span><br><span>But it identifies the sponsors as merely "local Christians" and the speaker as a "Christian minister." </span><br><span></span><br><span>But the message is the same old fear and hatred of homosexual people, based on the ignorance of bronze-age "prophets" who spoke in the name of their tribal God Yahweh (the LORD). </span><br><span></span><br><span>The speaker, Sam Allberry, is a friend of Peter Hitchens, the bigoted, "Christian" brother of the late Christopher Hitchens. Doug Wilson had him as an anti-gay speaker/chairman in the SUB ballroom last year.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Wilson has lots of tax-free money to rent a 1,000 person ballroom to spread his prejudices in the name of Christianity. His supporters will come by the busload.</span><br><span></span><br><span>As in previous events sponsored by Wilson all statements or questions not to his liking will be side-steppped or rudely ignored.</span><br><span></span><br><span>So be good to yourself and your friends, both gay and straight, and simply stay away from this painful event.</span><br><span></span><br><span>And if you want to know what Jesus said about homosexuals, don't waste your time looking in the Gospels: Jesus said not a word about them.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>=======================================================</span><br><span> List services made available by First Step Internet,</span><br><span> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.</span><br><span> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a></span><br><span> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a></span><br><span>=======================================================</span><br><span></span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>