[Vision2020] Open debate

[Tom Hansen]

Thank you, Rose.

 

Your words are extremely well written and heart-felt.

 

Remember last year just prior to the "History" Conference?  Remember the
Equality Coalition headed by UI's very own Human Relations, Raul Sanchez?
Many of us here on this listserve were members of that coalition, including
an alliance of local churches.

 

One question that should be answered:  Why haven't any local churches come
to the aid of Christ Church?

 

Tom Hansen

Not On The Palouse (or Minnetonka, Minnesota, or Cary, North Carolina, or
Monroe, Louisiana), Not Ever

 

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are
dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all
exist very nicely in the same box. 

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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of DonaldH675 at aol.com
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 11:39 PM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Open debate

 

Vision 2020 is a forum for public debate.  No single member is or should be
in a position to control the conversation, set the ground rules or decide
what is or is not a matter of interest or a worthy topic. .  

 

Silence is assent.  If you doubt that, review the history of the German
people prior to World War II. Humor is a powerful weapon, even, or perhaps
especially, when it is pointed. It is one that I prefer to use in the hope
of deflecting the stones that will be literally thrown by the enthusiastic
supporters of a theocratic government, if their political dreams come true.
It is arguably easier to pretend that no threat to our community and its
citizens exist. I suppose it is less threatening (on a personal level) to
ignore the civic and social impact of a hate group than to go head to head
and toes to toes with their leadership . I wouldn't know.

 

For those that choose the path of moral cowardice, apathy, or social
convenience, based on an incredibly naive lets-all-be-friends-together
philosophy, know that you do it at the expense of those of us who will not
be intimidated, silenced, intellectually befuddled by pseudo -religious
babble.  It is not an unpleasant task to confront bigotry, racism, and
homophobia.  But it is a heavy burden to tote that load for a bunch of
self-styled liberals who have the unmitigated gall to flap their ineffective
wings like ostriches from the moral high ground of their own self-righteous
indignation when their sensibilities are wounded.

 

There is a never ending laundry lists of projects or concerns that if
solved, or in some cases, even seriously addressed, would improve the
quality of life in Moscow and on the Palouse.  All of these issues are
important.  But I can promise you that if local government and civil leaders
are guided by a philosophy that doesn't support public schools, equal
employment opportunity for women and minorities, fair and equitable property
tax, city ordinances and county statues that are drawn not form Leviticus
but Idaho and U.S. code, none of you will give a damn about getting
sidewalks shoveled when it snows.  By then, you will have more pressing
issues on your minds.

 

Rose Huskey

 

And no, Dale Courtney, you do not have my permission to cut and paste this
onto your blog site.

 

"One cannot level one's moral lance at every evil in the universe. There are
just too many of them. But you can do something, and the difference between
doing something and doing nothing is everything." Daniel Berrigan



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