Liars are usually clever — you have to give them that. And one of the things the really smart ones know how to do is to use the last lie you caught them in as a basis for getting you to believe the lie they are currently telling. Douglas Wilson
Pastor Douglas Wilson of Christ Church, Moscow, writes from experience. He knows as well as anyone that lie begets lie, once a liar forsakes the truth. For example, Mr. Wilson defended 23-year-old Jamin Wight from a rape charge by arguing he had been in a “secret courtship” with his victim, and therefore Mr. Wilson contends that Wight actually participated in “sexual behavior” with a 13-year-old girl.
Mr. Wilson told his first lie (of this scandal) when he fabricated the so-called “secret courtship,” and he told his second lie when he described Wight’s criminal conduct as “sexual behavior.” In his words, he used his first lie as a basis to explain his second lie . . . so on and so forth. And we know these are lies because neither the parents nor their daughter knew about this “secret courtship,” and the physical violations committed by Wight hardly constitute “sexual behavior.”
So to prove the veracity of his lies, Mr. Wilson told a third lie by invoking the names of various persons whom he claims witnessed this so-called “secret courtship.” He named —
- The criminal, Jamin Wight.
- The minister who defended the criminal, Doug Wilson.
- A complete stranger who does not know any of the principals — Rosemary Huskey.
Of this last person, Mr. Wilson wrote, “Other witnesses on the fact of the secret courtship are available as well, including even Rose Huskey.”
Rose Huskey tried to correct Mr. Wilson’s statement by leaving a comment on his blog, but he did not approve it. That is, he blocked it from appearing, which was not an accident. It required effort.1 So she posted it here, on MoscowID.net:
Doug, you have the first amendment right to peddle your malarkey on your blog. However, justice demands that you correct any errors that it may contain. When you claim I am a “witness” to the (non-existent) courtship between Jamin and Natalie Greenfield you know that your statement is not true.
I was present in Latah County District Court on May 12, 2006, to witness Jamin Wight’s sentencing. I witnessed a confessed felon admit his guilt while blubbering like a baby. Arguably, your letter of support for the miscreant helped mitigate his sentence. I witnessed a loving father stand by his daughter to comfort and support her. I witnessed you sitting on Jamin’s “side” of the courtroom.
I am not a “witness” to a “secret courtship” or any courtship between Jamin Wight and Natalie Greenfield. How could I? — I have never met either of them or their families. I gladly take the eyewitness testimony of Natalie and her father that there was no courtship. There was grievous sexual molestation; I am certain of that. And you should be too.
Rose Huskey
“Violence covers the mouth of the wicked.” — Proverbs 10:6
Doug Wilson is pretty clever — you have to give him that. He knows how to use the last lie you caught him in as a basis for getting you to believe the lie he is currently telling. And he has rigged the system so that when his lies catch up to him, no one can do anything about it. They just have to eat it.
Rosemary Huskey did not witness a “secret courtship.” She saw the civil magistrate send one of Doug Wilson’s parishioners to prison for behaving just like his pastor — and that’s not a secret.
1 Mr. Wilson uses a third-party service to host his comments and one of the selling points of this platform is that it’s spam free. This means that the blog owner (Mr. Wilson) must manually assign any given comment to the spam filter, if he does not delete it outright or ignore it. And if a site owner does ignore a comment, the platform calls the comment to his attention with a large brightly colored circle on the navigation menu of the interface, to ensure it can’t be missed. It was no accident that Rose’s comment did not appear. Nevertheless it’s likely that if called to account he will play stupid and say, “Oh, it got spammed somehow. . .”
Doug plays a thug with some really odd sunglasses (did he borrow Nancy’s?) and a baseball bat he used to smash clay pots. He doesn’t look intimidating he looks like an aging, silly old man who really doesn’t pack the goods anymore — just another in the long, pathetic line of feckless gits, except for the really evil parts that can’t be overlooked by any thinking person.
Rose Huskey
If you don’t believe this lie is true, just ask the blind guide — he saw it too!
By this I mean — Even if someone believes Wilson’s lies, one may well ask, hmm… Secret Courtship. . . What does this mean, and how would it change our understanding of what happened, if it were true, which it’s not. He can’t mean secret from Natalie and her parents (though it was) so he must mean secret from Doug. Must “biblical” courtship be pastor-approved? In his “Her hand in Marriage” book, he writes, “The beauty of biblical courtship is that it never leaves women unprotected.”
Why was Natalie not protected, since it was a courtship? (My answer — for the same reasons Sitler’s Moscow victims weren’t protected — including Kirk-approved boarding of students with families with children.) But what might Wilson say?
Maybe that it was UNBIBLICAL courtship. Unbiblical how? Suitor of questionable character? Seminary student . . . Future pastor . . . Kirk approved . . . Not a sexual predator . . . Nope — all good there! Suitee too young? Mature . . . Good looking . . . 8 inches taller than suitor (never ever true, but I’m generalizing, doncha know — don’t you dummies understand generalizations? You need to retake your ESL classes [something I really said]) . . . Nope — all good there! Didn’t ask father for hand? Nope — oh — father — that’s it! Father a reprobate who wanted to move to Couer d’ Alene! Appalling! How unbiblical can you get!! Abusive! Anyone who’s ever been to Coeur d’Alene will understand how abusive moving there would be!
Of course — even if all Doug’s lies were true — can you imagine any Christian parents, while approving their daughter’s (of any age) courtship (which these didn’t) assuming this might include “fisting”?
“Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”
“Thy baseball bat and thy sunglasses they frighten me.”
“Come unto me all who are weary and heavy-laden and I will give you rest.”
“Crawl before me all who are delirious and easily faked out and I will smash what sense of reality you still have.”
“Suffer the little children to come unto Me”
“It matters little how or how many children have suffered. Just make sure you cover for me.”
“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father but by Me.”
“I am way overweight, a boob and a liar. Let no man use common sense in regard to me.”
“Apart from Me you can do nothing.”
“Depart from me and you are subhuman.”
So the sunglasses and baseball bat are supposed to represent “Douglas J. Wilson, Big Bad Enforcer”? He looks like one of the more pudgy members of YallQaeda.
Sludge puts the “fat” in “fatuous” ya know.