<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<font size="+1">With hardly abated breath one awaits the next
headline:<br>
<br>
Serial rebutting gets community's pastoral goat<br>
<br>
Ken<br>
<br>
</font><br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/19/2016 3:24 AM, Moscow Cares
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote
cite="mid:F1D0B6B8-01AF-4243-84D5-23F3960667DA@moscow.com"
type="cite">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
<div><span></span></div>
<div>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
<div><span></span></div>
<div>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
<div>Courtesy of today's (April 19, 2016) Moscow-Pullman Daily
News.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>--------------------------------</div>
<div>
<h1 id="blox-asset-title" style="font-size: 30px; outline:
0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 400;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
line-height: 34px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span
class="blox-headline entry-title" style="outline: 0px;
margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);
line-height: 38px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Pastor rebuts statements by victim of child
abuse</span></h1>
<p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;
line-height: 24px; background-image: none; float: none
!important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255,
255, 0);">Christ Church was not involved in the
sentencing of a pastor-in-training about 10 years ago
for felony injury to a child, Doug Wilson, senior pastor
of Christ Church in Moscow, wrote Monday in an email to
the Daily News.</span></p>
<p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;
line-height: 24px; background-image: none; float: none
!important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255,
255, 0);">He was responding to a story, "Survivors:
'Listen to me,' " on Page One of the April 15 edition.</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; line-height: 24px; background-image: none; float:
none !important;"><span style="background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The victim in the case,
Natalie Greenfield, who spoke April 14 at the
University of Idaho, detailed her seduction as a
13-year-old by the man who was 10 years older. She was
quoted as saying that "Christ Church fought for him
tooth and nail."</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; line-height: 24px; background-image: none; float:
none !important;"><span style="background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The Greenfields could have
insisted on going to trial, and they were the ones who
decided not to," Wilson wrote. "My understanding is
that the reason they decided not to is because Jamin
(Wight) had journals in his possession, written by
Natalie, that he could have used in his defense in
open court."</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; line-height: 24px; background-image: none; float:
none !important;"><span style="background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She alleges the church told
her parents not to go to trial, and church members
wrote to the court on her abuser's behalf and brought
her own character into question.</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; line-height: 24px; background-image: none; float:
none !important;"><span style="background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"A plea deal was settled,
which Christ Church had nothing to do with," Wilson
wrote. "The reason Jamin 'got off light' was entirely
due to the arrangement the Greenfields made with the
state of Idaho."</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; line-height: 24px; background-image: none; float:
none !important;"><span style="background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wilson wrote, "Jamin deserved
the punishment he received, and I happen to believe
that he could have received a stricter punishment
without any injustice.</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; line-height: 24px; background-image: none; float:
none !important;"><span style="background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"So if you want to blame
someone for the sentence, then you need to limit your
candidates to the state of Idaho and the Greenfields,"
he wrote.</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; line-height: 24px; background-image: none; float:
none !important;"><span style="background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He wrote that Natalie's
father might object to that account of things.</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; line-height: 24px; background-image: none; float:
none !important;"><span style="background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wilson went on: "He is
(literally, not just figuratively) a flat-earther. And
the reason for bringing this up is NOT because
flat-earthers deserve to have their daughters abused,
but rather because flat-earthers ought not to be
trusted when it comes to what constitutes reasonable
evidence."</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; line-height: 24px; background-image: none; float:
none !important;"><span style="background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Greenfields were members
of Christ Church. Wight, of Potlatch, stayed at their
house in Moscow's Fort Russell neighborhood, but he
attended Trinity Reformed Church, headed at the time
by Peter J. Leithart, a faculty member at New Saint
Andrews College.</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; line-height: 24px; background-image: none; float:
none !important;"><span style="background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Leithart wrote of that time
in a Facebook posting in September.</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; line-height: 24px; background-image: none; float:
none !important;"><span style="background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Of Jamin Wight, he wrote, "I
allowed him to manipulate me. A number of the things I
said about Jamin to the congregation and court at the
time his abuse was uncovered were spun in Jamin's
favor.</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; line-height: 24px; background-image: none; float:
none !important;"><span style="background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I trusted his account of the
circumstances more readily and longer than I should
have, and conversely I disbelieved the victim's
parents," Leithart wrote. "I didn't appreciate how
much damage Jamin did, and I was naive about the
effect that the abuse had on the victim's family."</span></p>
</div>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>--------------------</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Case #2005-02500 (Jamin Wight)</div>
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Jamin_Wight/">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Jamin_Wight/</a></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------------------</span><br>
<br>
<div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255,
0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255,
0);"><br>
</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255,
0);">"Moscow Cares" </span></div>
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.moscowcares.com/"
style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font
color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255,
0);"> </span></div>
<div>
<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><br>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br>
<fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset>
<br>
<pre wrap="">=======================================================
List services made available by First Step Internet,
serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a>
=======================================================</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
</body>
</html>