Re: That's yodeling, boys, not squealing!

[Daniel Kronemann <kron4155@uidaho.edu>]

Rock On Joan!!

Love

Daniel



On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Joan Opyr wrote:

> Let's not put Descartes before de horse, Dougs.  I haven't gone anywhere,
> squealing or otherwise.  (Perhaps you've watched
> "Deliverance" once too often?)  I included links to Credenda Agenda in my
> post so that people on this list could read your work and evaluate it for
> themselves.  Is that, in fact, the problem?  If they're like me, they won't
> stop with those links, but browse in mounting horror for hours.
>
> Please note: I don't object to your holding your views, peculiar as I find
> them.  But your right to have them, to express them, and to do your best to
> make them apply to the rest of us does not extend to a right to do so
> without criticism.  Free speech is free for me, and free for you.
>
> Far from being a modernist, I am a fully trained medievalist with a
> specialty in Anglo-Saxon poetry and the Norse sagas.  I freely admit to
> being judgmental; I've spent many years painstakingly honing my critical
> thinking abilities, and I've got the graduate loan payments to prove it.
>
> As for what I believe, I believe that women are fully equal to men, that
> blacks are equal to whites who are equal to Asians who are equal to Latinos,
> Native Americans, and the aborigines of Papua New Guinea.  (And I don't mean
> "separate but equal" in that Plessy vs. Ferguson way I found so much in
> evidence on your website.)  Furthermore, I am a Democrat, a democrat, and a
> Jew.  I'm a feminist.  I believe that there is power in a union.  I support
> gay rights, I'm pro-choice, and I kiss my picture of Emma Goldman every
> night before I go to sleep.
>
> I also believe that no one gave you or anyone else sole right to the bible
> and its interpretation.  This is the problem with self-ordination: I have
> just as much right to ordain myself a conduit for the voice of God as you
> have to ordain you.  Your authority rests on precisely the same foundation
> as mine.  Or Fred Phelps'.  (Talk about strange bedfellows.)
>
> But that's just me--I don't speak for a church, a worldview, or a
> philosophy.  I don't need to.  Disagreeing with you does not make me your
> opposition, a prophet of "modernity," or a three-legged stool.  I am an
> individual with all the rights and freedoms accorded to me by the
> constitution.  (And for that I say, "God bless that wretched slave-owning
> Thomas Jefferson.")
>
> So, you evangelize the Palouse your way, and I'll evangelize it mine.
> (Although I never made any claims to pluralism or multiculturalism, this is
> as good a definition as any.)  In the meantime, if you prefer, you can call
> me Auntie Patriarchal.
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Auntie Establishment (but not Auntie Enlightenment)
>
>
>
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