Tagged “Christ Church”
Blog & Mablog: “An Open Letter from Christ Church on Steven Sitler”
Moscow-Pullman Daily News: Convicted sex offender granted permission to live with his child
Moscow-Pullman Daily News: Christ Church minister explains opposition to same-sex marriage
[Vision2020] Status Hearing Steven Sitler
[Vision2020] Sitler Travis Wedding
About a month ago I published an email on V2020 addressed to Doug Wilson and his elders regarding the forthcoming marriage of Steven Sitler and Katie Travis. I specifically named the elders so that in their daily out and about in Moscow you would know who they are and what they represent. Now, I will answer some of the questions that I (rhetorically) asked them. (They didn’t bother to answer me.) A degree of culpability for supporting this sacrilegious “marriage” covers all of them, but some actors are more deeply involved than others. . . .
Child abusers are unwelcome
Serial child molester Steven Sitler was sentenced to life imprisonment several months ago. He served no hard time. He spent most of his incarceration in the local jail. His plea agreement says: “the volume and extent of acts by the defendant are greater than the investigator’s documentation” and “similar acts occurred in connection with minors now residing in other states.” Note the plurals. . . .
Moscow–Pullman Daily News: Prosecutor: Sitler arrested on allegations of voyeurism
Moscow–Pullman Daily News: Advocate: Sex offender’s early release may be indicative of larger problem
Intelligence Report: Idaho Pastor a Hard-Liner, With an Exception or Two
Doug Wilson is no normal pastor. He is a biblical hard-liner, a man who in numerous books and speeches is quick to advocate the most draconian punishments of the Old Testament for all kinds of offenses, some quite minor. And that applies to the Sitler case directly, judging from what Wilson wrote in his 1999 book Fidelity: “When we are dealing with young children who are abused by adults (pederasty, child porn, etc.), the penalty for those guilty of the crime should be death.” Except . . .