<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Totally agree 100%! I was not a happy camper, knowing my taxes will be used in this manner. <br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 25, 2023, at 9:27 AM, Roger Hayes <rhayesmoscowid@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">A religion of sorts dictated by one man's desire for power built on a foundation of hate. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 8:25 AM Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div>Courtesy of today’s !Moscow-Pullman Daily News with special thanks to Moscow’s own Keely Emerine-Mix.</div><div><br></div>—————————————————<div><br></div><div><strong style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Giving up rights for others</strong></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I was saddened to hear that the city of Moscow has settled with Christ Church deacon, failed County Commissioner candidate, and Doug Wilson acolyte Gabe Rench and another couple after their arrest during one of Wilson’s Christ Church “hymn sings” during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. My personal engagements with Rench assure me that he is gloating and feels fully vindicated now that he has collected a settlement from the city for what he calls a violation of his First Amendment rights. He is entitled to that; after all, he won.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:16px;line-height:27px">Or did he? As a citizen, he should have been held to the City’s reasonable mask mandate, and the hymn sings were not a spontaneous act of public worship but, rather, a calculated stiff middle finger not only to the City, but to its residents nearby. The rebelliously unmasked crowd lustily singing were engaged not only in reckless disregard for their own well-being and that of their neighbors, but also engaged in hateful disregard of the commandment of the God they presumed to worship.</p></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:16px;line-height:27px">Christians are commanded to obey reasonable orders from the state. We are also taught by the Lord Jesus to consider the well-being of others as more important than our own, even giving up our rights for the good of others. Wilson and his beholden toadies like Rench may have won this battle, but it is clear that they continue to lose their war against sin, licentiousness, and contempt for their neighbors. I fear for Rench when he finds out that the God of righteousness does not settle His disputes with those who willingly transgress — and do so in His name</p><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:16px;line-height:27px">Keely Emerine-Mix</p></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:16px;line-height:27px">Moscow</p></div></div></div><div>—————————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><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" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.net" target="_blank">http://www.MoscowCares.net</a></span></div><div><br></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>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></div></div>=======================================================<br>
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