Yesterday,
December 8, 2003, the homosexual political organization Action Wisconsin
sent out a news release in which excerpts from the speakers at a Wisconsin
Christians United conference
were taken out of context--in one case, grossly out of context--and then
used to support a claim that WCU supports the murder of homosexuals.
Shortly after the conference, WCU made available to the public through
WCU's web site tapes and CDs of the five hours of speeches given at the
event. That is not exactly something a group bent on propagating murder
would do. Action Wisconsin officials received those CDs and have admitted
to listening to them to extract excerpts. They are now planning on the
press finishing their dirty work for them. This morning, WCU e-mailed the
following letter to Action Wisconsin, notifying them that we expect them
to come clean on the lies they have publicly spread and to publicly
apologize or we will take legal action. We are also making complimentary tapes
or CDs of the conference available to the media.
To Action Wisconsin:
I trust you read my note yesterday. To aid you in issuing your
clarification and apology today, I again point out that you know full
well that Pastor Storms was not pretending to shoot gay people. You
heard the audio of his speech, as you have admitted. You know that Grant
was preaching on the biblical story of Jonathan and his armor bearer.
You know that when he said, "Boom, boom, boom," he was
speaking of Jonathan fighting the Philistines. You know that his comment
on "McDonald's" was simply a preaching technique using a
modern motif. You know that he then went on to use that story as an
analogy for how Christians must fight our spiritual, political, and
religious battles without fearing the odds against us. You also know
that all of the speakers at the WCU conference dealt with the political
and religious agenda of the homosexual movement. In addition, they not
only made many analogies regarding spiritual warfare but also spoke to
the need to share the gospel with individual homosexuals.
To publicly lead the public to believe that two Christian pastors were
reveling in the fantasy of shooting gay people is reprehensible and
going a bridge too far legally. Not only that, but to also present
Pastor Storms and me as potential assassins is to put both of us, not to
mention our families and churches, in more danger. We already receive
our share of documented death threats, and in my case, even physical
assaults from the "gay community." Your personal character
assassination of us could certainly lead someone to go one step further
out of a perceived need to protect gay people. There are several other
clarifications of your press release and your letter to Senator Mary
Panzer which it would be wise for you to make. I have spoken with Grant,
and he joins me in insisting that you make this matter right
immediately. We realize there is probably not much we can do about your
juxtaposing us alongside neo-Nazi groups and the Ku Klux Klan; but your
blatant, systematic misrepresenting two Christian pastors as
cold-blooded killers urging others on to murder is something we will not
tolerate. You may rest assured that we are going to pursue this matter
legally. If you think for one moment that we are going to put up with
Action Wisconsin purposely spreading the lie that we are in favor of
murdering gay people and that we even acted out such murder in public,
you are very sadly mistaken.
Pastor Ralph Ovadal
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