[Vision2020] Straight from the Horses Mouth (or perhaps, elsewhere)

[Saundra Lund]

Thanks, Rose, for posting the below.  Now that the election is behind us, I
will comment on one - and only one -- part of the bigoted lies most of us
know Dough Wilson to be famous for.

 

Doug Wilson wrote:

It is not necessary to use all three of your votes, but it is important not
to use any of them in favor of Rebecca, a woman who uses exclamation marks
on her yard signs, a thing which ought not to be done.

 

And that, folks, is confirmation that whatever stones Wilson once had, he's
long since lost them and is now nothing more than a garden variety
lily-livered liar.

 

In the past, Wilson's spittle-flecked bloviations at least would have been
honest (from his perspective) if morally bankrupt.  "You must not," he would
have spewed, "vote for Rebecca Rod.  First, she's a woman, and it's
unbiblical for women to have any authority among men.  The scourge of
feminism must be stopped!  Even more importantly in this case, is that the
She-Devil is a <gasp> lesbian!  I have preached many times that God has
removed his protection from this nation for three reasons:  feminism,
homosexuality, and abortion. To vote for this Rod woman is to vote for a
candidate that will ensure that God will continue to turn His back on
America, and you will be dammed to hell for all eternity should you vote for
this "person"!"

 

We'll ignore, for a moment, the exclamation marks used in Wilson's
based-on-fact hypothetical diatribe  J

 

No matter what one thinks of the hate & incivility Wilson & his toadies
routinely spew, we could count on him to not hold back on using his Big
Three as justification for attacking community members.

 

Not anymore.  Now, he's apparently come up with a new code (similar to his
"Intolerista" label) in which using exclamation punctuation is The Scarlet
Letter, if you will, to mark those in the LGBTQ community.  What a sad ,
fat, impotent little man he's become in the sunset of his life.  I guess the
unbiblical hate that he routinely preaches has finally consumed the last of
his soul.  What a surprise . . . not.

 

What is a genuine surprise, though, is that Moscow's conservative base
apparently hasn't figured out that Wilson is a washed-up has been on the
national scene.  He's no longer respected outside a few truly fringe groups.
He is simply old news with no power outside, no national draw, no longer
able to even successfully import converts other than those with mental
health issues that make things like patriarchy attractive to the miscreants.
His message has become too offensive for respect even amongst other
conservative Evangelicals . . . yet local wingnut conservatives still think
he's something other than a bigoted hate-monger.  Behind the times much?

 

One last comment, although this one is directed at the GMA.  There are more
than a few intelligent, articulate, successful Republican business women in
Moscow, yet GMA chose to again run a white male only slate of candidates for
the City election.  What on earth is wrong with the GMA and its leadership?!

 

And, perhaps more importantly, what on earth is wrong with the Moscow's
Republican woman that they wouldn't expect a seat at Moscow's GOP table?!

 

Perhaps, just perhaps, this was the wake-up call those in the community
needed to understand that it's up to us to demand that Moscow's GOP & GMA
quit trying to set this community back 50 or more years by only allowing
white males at the table.

 

At least, that's my hope.

 

Because, unfortunately, the GMA has shown that's the direction it's
consistently driving in for Moscow.  Again, behind the times much?  I guess
so.  

 

 

 

Saundra

Moscow, ID

 

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

 

 

 

From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Rosemary Huskey
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 10:51 AM
To: 'Moscow Vision 2020'
Subject: [Vision2020] Straight from the Horses Mouth (or perhaps, elsewhere)

 


Voting in a Wobbly Canoe
<http://dougwils.com/s7-engaging-the-culture/voting-in-a-wobbly-canoe.html> 


Posted on Monday, November 4, 2013
<http://dougwils.com/s7-engaging-the-culture/voting-in-a-wobbly-canoe.html>
by Douglas Wilson <http://dougwils.com/author/admin>  

Yesterday I exhorted the saints
<http://dougwils.com/the-church/political-not-partisan.html#more-105659>  at
Christ Church to make sure that they voted in our local election tomorrow.
In the course of that exhortation I said that it was not the church's
business to descend into partisan factionalism, but that it was our
responsibility to pray that we would be allowed to "lead a quiet and
peaceable life" (1 Tim. 2:2 <http://biblia.com/bible/esv/1%20Tim.%202.2> ).
I said that we ought to be voting in the same direction as our prayers,
which means that we should be voting in the direction of civil magistrates
leaving us alone. That would include doing something about zoning
commissions that are used as a cat's paw for various intoleristas.

Having said that, I was asked several times about something I said in the
pulpit last year, <http://dougwils.com/s8-expository/pulpit-freedom-2.html>
and was also challenged online because of my recent comments
<http://dougwils.com/s7-engaging-the-culture/rabbits-should-know-what-hawks-
look-like.html>  about evangelical pastors who had voted for Obama the
second time.

The first link in the previous paragraph goes to a sermon outline I preached
on Pulpit Freedom Sunday. In that sermon I endorsed, or came close enough to
it as makes no difference, a candidate for the state legislature, a man
named Gresham Bouma. How does that fit with what I said yesterday?

I do believe that the church should stay out of partisan politics, but I
believe this on theological grounds. The rule should be a church standard,
and this means the IRS has absolutely no authority to be setting
restrictions on what ministers may say. So the first point is that this was
said as part of a nationwide challenge to the IRS. This was made possible by
the candidacy of Gresham, a well-known member of our Christian community
operating with a biblical worldview - a man who fears the Lord, is a man of
truth, and who hates covetousness (Ex. 18:21
<http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Ex.%2018.21> ). It was an exceptional
circumstance for a specific situation.

In the current race, we have candidates who represent the officious left,
and candidates who represent views more friendly to economic growth - but no
one is representing a full-orbed biblical approach to anything. To use the
power of the pulpit to lean this way or that in a wobbly canoe would be
inappropriate.

In short, to say that the pulpit should never be partisan does not mean that
it can never be personal. It can be personal, but that is rare.

On the Obama question, the question is simpler and much more
straightforward. He supports the killing of babies and therefore no
consistent Christian may support him. That is not a partisan issue, and it
only appears to be such because the Democratic Party has been captured by
bloodthirsty ghouls.

One last thing. This blog is owned and operated by me, the proprietor, and
is not supported in any way with tithe money, which means that I am
functioning here as a private citizen, albeit a noisy one in a party hat.
That means I can say I voted for Lambert instead of Chaney, and in the
council race, the voter has three votes that he can spread over four
candidates. It is not necessary to use all three of your votes, but it is
important not to use any of them in favor of Rebecca, a woman who uses
exclamation marks on her yard signs, a thing which ought not to be done. So
I voted for the three non-Rebeccas. Those who are interested in more
information can check with the Greater Moscow Alliance
<http://www.greatermoscow.org/> .

It would be nice if we could get to a place where smart growth officials
would quit giving each other awards for the achievement of empty lots, which
we already had, and which are not exactly the pyramids.

 

 

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