“But 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.” Douglas Wilson

Lurking kirkers, consider this: Douglas Wilson opposes same-sex marriage, as I do, though for different reasons. (For the record, my opposition goes beyond marriage to include rhetoric. I will not use the word “gay” to describe homosexuality. It’s an Orwellian term with depreciatory connotations for the non-“gay.” I’m okay with heterosexual and homosexual, no offense intended.) The difference between Doug Wilson and me on the subject of same-sex marriage is that I admit the Bible does not expressly prohibit it. The same is true of transsexualism. No verse of Scripture forbids men or women from altering their body through sex-reassignment surgery. A strict fundamentalist hermeneutic permits both. Douglas Wilson knows this, whether he admits it or not.

This matters because of his argument for solemnizing serial pedophile Steven Sitler’s marriage to a graduate of New Saint Andrews College. When he lamented, “Don’t I need a verse or something?” he knew he didn’t have “a verse or something” that proscribes same-sex marriage or sex-reassignment surgery, but he opposed (and still opposes) them nonetheless. This highlights his double standard. The argument that Doug Wilson makes against same-sex marriage and sex-reassignment surgery is essentially the same argument that Christians use to oppose the marriage of serial pedophile Steven Sitler. Ask yourself if the following standard applies to serial pedophiles who want to marry with intent to father children:

“All the varied expressions of transgressive sexuality currently being celebrated in our culture, and now by the highest court in the land, are out of accord with God’s creational design for human sexuality, and are therefore sinful in the eyes of God. Whenever men set themselves up arrogantly to challenge God’s holy standards for sexuality, seeking to teach contrary to what God has taught us in His Word, they are vainly attempting something that is not within their authority to accomplish. We cannot bestow dignity where God has withheld it, and we cannot join together what God has determined shall remain forever separated.” (Douglas Wilson, A Response to the Obergefell Decision, June 27, 2015)

Notice that the Presiding Minister of the CREC did not quote “a verse or something” to support his disagreement with Obergefell. It’s all assertion, which, by the way, I believe is true. But it’s truer of an unrepentant child molester who wants to father children. I honestly don’t care what two consenting adults do in the sack. Not my business. If asked, I’ll give my opinion based on Scripture. But like the rest of humanity save a few hundred who “drink the Kool-Aide” in Moscow, the Sitler household literally makes me ill. That little Sitler child has not consented to live with the child molester. He cannot consent and he would not if asked (we have heard from countless victims of child abuse; their painful childhood still haunts them — none of them would have chose it). The Sitlers have forced this incomprehensible evil upon that boy, with the active support of Christ Church and the CREC, which brings us to the subject of same-sex marriage.

Douglas Wilson debated R. Clarke Cooper of the Log Cabin Republicans fifteen months after he presided over the marriage of serial pedophile Steven Sitler. They debated same-sex marriage among other things — Douglas Wilson opposing. Look at his argument:

Wilson’s main argument was based in the “slippery slope” argument, claiming if the government were to endorse gay marriage it would be inevitable that they would have to approve polygamous marriage.

“This will most certainly happen if we open the gates to gay rights,” Wilson said. “If you leave the key under the mat, you’re not the only one who can open the door.”

Wilson accused Cooper of dodging the issue and not offering a clear argument against polygamous relationships if the time came to defend marriage against them.

Cooper’s response did not offer an argument to defend the sanctity of marriage against polygamy because he said there is no support for polygamous marriage in government and he could not see there ever being any.

“There have been no bills sponsored for polygamy. Is that something that could happen? Sure, but there’s no precedent for that,” Cooper said. (Moscow-Pullman Daily News, September 14, 2012)

But on June 11, 2011, just 15 months earlier, Doug Wilson officiated the wedding of a child rapist to an incredibly naïve graduate of New St. Andrews College. He prayed with the congregation that Sitler would sire children (plural). He did this because he didn’t have “a verse or something.” No concerns about “slippery slopes.” Nothing about a “key under the mat.” And now, five years later, Steven Sitler has used that key to access the home of the child for whom he entertains deviant sexual fantasies. Douglas Wilson gave him the key.

Kirkers, the wrong slippery slope burdens your pastor.