The Letter Without Signatures
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N T H E “as
soon as the mistake was pointed out” “But
as soon as the mistake was pointed out, we realized the mistake,
apologized, and dropped it.” — Doug Wilson, February 15, 2006 SUMMARY In
December 1993, the CEF elders refused to sign a letter of apology
drafted by Doug Wilson. Doug Wilson is the first eyewitness to this
event because he wrote the letter and he heard the elders say, “No, we
will not sign this letter.” On the night of March 4, 2003, during a
HOH meeting, Doug Jones bore witness that the CEF elders did in fact
sign the letter without signatures. Doug Wilson knew
that Doug Jones bore false witness, and Now
Wilson
calls his false witness a “mistake.” Yesterday [February 15, 2006] he blogged, “But as soon as the mistake was pointed out, we realized the mistake,
apologized, and dropped it.” You be the judge. Pin the tail on the
point in time when Wilson & Jones learned of their “mistake” and
“apologized.” March
4, 2003 HOH
meeting, Doug Jones publicly states that Terry Morin and the elders
signed the letter without signatures. Doug Wilson attended the meeting
and failed to correct Jones’ mistake. March
7, 2003 The
“The
affidavit of Terry Morin itself has to be called into question not only
for being an unbiblical accusation against an elder by not having two or
three witnesses but also for revealing the conflict with the letter he
signed on December 17 affirming Doug Wilson’s good character and
fitness for office.” March
25, 2003 “More
importantly, we believe it especially correct to claim that no
discipline was accomplished because the December 17, 1993 letter signed
by all the elders closes with the claim, “finally, it is important to
note that no action anticipated in the Dec. 5 letter has been
implemented.” March
26, 2003 E
Free elders to “In
the process of our research we identified a couple of items that may be
worthy of your further investigation. First, we could not find anything
to verify that the minutes Doug referred to were formal, approved
minutes of the elder meeting. Secondly, regarding the letter dated
December 17, 1993, written to the head of households: We were unable to
find a copy of the letter signed by all four elders indicating the elder
board’s approval of that letter. If you have such documents, we would
appreciate you sending us copies.” April
9, 2003 E
Free elder Bill Twigg visits Doug Jones, who says that the Christ Church
Judicial Committee is “backing off the minutes and the letter.” (You
can confirm this with Bill Twigg at mcctwigg@turbonet.com
or (208) 882-2445.) April
11, 2003 E
Free elder Bill Twigg visits Doug Jones who informs Twigg that the
“minutes” and the “letter without signatures” are “invalid
documents.” (You can confirm this with Bill Twigg at mcctwigg@turbonet.com
or (208) 882-2445.) April
14, 2003 E
Free elder Bill Twigg visits Doug Wilson & Doug Jones, who concede
that they owe Terry Morin “restitution, or something to that
effect.” (You can confirm this with Bill Twigg at mcctwigg@turbonet.com
or (208) 882-2445.) May
6, 2003 E
Free writes to “Bill
[Twigg] reported to us that Doug Wilson and Doug Jones . . .
acknowledged that the letter dated December 17 was misrepresented
as a letter authorized by the elders when it was not. Neither apology
nor seeking Terry’s forgiveness has occurred during the three to four
weeks since these acknowledgements were made.” May
14, 2003 “With
reference to the second paragraph of your May 6, 2003 letter, we have
not altered the website claims of the “Preliminary Reply” concerning
the June 25, 1993 and December 17 1993 documentation because, as Doug
Jones informed Bill Twigg and Bill Twigg wrote down (we understand how
this could be lost in the shuffle), we are waiting for answers to our
questions. . .” June
3, 2003 E
Free writes to “You
appear upset that we have not answered questions in your letter to us on
March 25, 2003. We are waiting for you to provide us with some evidence
that Doug’s notes were minutes and to see if you can verify that the
December 17 letter was signed or approved by the elders at that time, as
requested in our letter to you on March 26, 2003. If you have provided
this documentation, then we missed it, so please submit it to us
again.” June
12, 2003 July
3, 2003 E
Free to “You
have presented documents as being authentic, although they are not. At
one time Doug Wilson acknowledged that these documents may not be
authentic, but later he backed away from that position. This approach to
withholding truth is troubling to us.” July
[no date], 2003 July
31, 2003 “We
have become convinced that these documents were merely proposed but
never approved by the session back in 1993 in any way that can be
demonstrated. We committed the sin of haste in our search of church
records and mistakenly and unintentionally used documents that had not
borne the demonstrable approval of that early session. In this revision,
then, we have removed all appeals to the ‘minutes’ of June 25, 1993,
as well as a proposed letter of December 17, 1993. . . . We hereby ask
Terry Morin’s forgiveness for saying he apologized for something he
didn’t. That was wrong of us and done in sinful haste.” Posted by Michael Metzler - 2/16/2006 8:00:44 PM |
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