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I am not even trying to be funny on this title. Wilson and his ilk are what is wrong with religion and wrong with this country. He is a hell of a lot more dangerous than Jrod or the Duggars. We should be on our 500th thread about these people.

I think most FJ people are aware of Doug Wilson's (Moscow, ID fundie Reformed Godfather of Christ Church) vigorous defense of two convicted and unrepentant pedophile, and his continued online attacks against the victim of one of the pedophiles. Wilson, who has also been caught out in multiple cases of plagiarism, is the all-powerful founder and head of the Christ Church and the utterly unaccredited New St Andrew's Seminary in Moscow, ID and seems to control about half the town's population. Natalie Greenfield, now grown and married and a mother of three, has spoken openly and candidly of Wilson's manipulations of her parents and herself as a young teen, when it was discovered that seminarian Jamin Wright, in his 20s and boarding with the Greenfields, had groomed and abused Natalie as a young teen. Wright has since reoffended. Wilson was also the officiant at the wedding of Steven Sitler, a convicted pedophile in Wilson's congregation, to a young woman also in the church. Sitler was considered at very high risk for reoffending and his probation officer filed a warning with the court that the couple intended to have children and this was a bad, bad idea. Since then, Sitler has reoffended with his own infant son. Wison not only refuses to take any responsibility for creating a church environment where victims were villified and abusers forgive immediately, he's also been on a bizarre crusade to "prove" that there was no abuse of Natalie Greenfield. Due to arrest records and court records, he cannot argue that 20-something Wright had not had a sexual relationship with Greenfield, who had barely reached her teens. Wilson's position is that the relationship was approved by Natalie's parents (they have denied this), that Natalie could not have been abused because she was quite tall for her age, and also that Natalie could not possibly have been abused because her husband - who she met years after the abuse - made a performance art video as part of his MFA thesis in which he appeared nude. That last one requires some dazzling leaps of logic. Anyway, someone keeps very good track of the developments in the various cases and the histories of the crimes (and Doug Wilson's involvement) on a website, moscowid.net. They've posted a link today to a 400 page meticulously researched and documented report on the two cases and Wilson's unwavering support of both pedophiles. The document contains email exchanges with Wilson, as well as interviews with law enforcement and the local prosecutor. I've kept up with the Wilson mess because it's mind-boggling that this man claims to be the victim of evil feminists and God-haters and at the same time proudly defends his documented record of enabling the sexual assault of minors. So, if anyone is trapped inside on a rainy Saturday, the report is available on the moscowid.net website in PDF format, titled "Analyzing Douglas Wilson’s Handling of the Steven Sitler and Jamin Wight Cases." Just don't eat first, because what this man has done will make you nauseous.

Doug Wilson fires a shot across the bow: https://www.facebook.com/dougwils/posts/10215377083353059?__xts__[0]=68.ARC4yaE1T9uar1k6BQI6kUMnEsNW8MVjA6a_EbDrMNB58B8jMeVPkK36NHQ9QI-c04lC58lv22WjSZpxNaE_5edWsjgtQG3KMOVynzkFwswNYFmtoTDjccO2ZUvM8LXzqoz8YGg&__tn__=-R James McDonald waits a whole week to subpost his displeasure, leading me to believe there was sustained prodding from his “bride”: https://www.facebook.com/james.mcdonald1/posts/10216595142929522?__xts__[0]=68.ARAm7kMsy_Zaj1G2N0AjxuvWQpjrVTV7hw1kDBZ2ALrmqdQKROC73Djh0ImpjayP_nTQc3MOdtHHXZFob2ITY2DXcgnZY0PRygCJBWBOkUnLAAHDhR7h3lZ9iyKXhCOSyEjFsMQ&__tn__=-R

I tried to search for the last thread about him, but couldn't find it. Anyway, he says he'll probably be okay. https://dougwils.com/resources/personal/the-obedience-of-cancer.html?platform=hootsuite