I was telling some friends last night that I felt really sorry for Rose Huskey. She has spent countless hours doing her best to stop anything to do with Christian ministries in Moscow (Logos School, NSA, Christ Church, etc.) and she has succeeded at nothing. Too bad she couldn’t have all of those hours of her life back and done something redemptive with them instead.
Here’s what she wrote yesterday before the CUP hearing for NSA:
Once again the New Saint Andrews scheme machine is churning out the same tired old ideas to recreate Oxford on the cheap (minus the authenticity and breadth of knowledge in the celebrated British original) on Main St. in Moscow. I sent the following note to the BOA – which I would like to share with V2020. If you are planning to attend the hearing go early as you can bet the entire student body of NSA will be there (probably not wearing the silly Harry Potter gowns however.)
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In the note to the BOA I included a list of boarding houses from 2005 Christ Church directory. I will not attach that here because if some home owners have moved from the homes listed in the church directory I would not want some innocent family tarred by the previous owners brush.
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These holy go pious jackasses really know how to represent Christianity in a powerfully good way, don’t they?
The application emphasizes the music conservatory and other space as an adjunct educational building to the existing NSA building. As Saundra Lund correctly points out, when it comes to the any organization affiliated with Christ Church, aka the Kirk, there is generally more to the story. Currently the Kirk and NSA are forced to rent space from the Nazarene Church and other local facilities when conference space, the annual “balls,” graduations, and social events are required. Logos Gym, understandably, just doesn’t meet all those extraneous needs although it is apparently just fine for church services. By emphasizing the educational aspects that would be provided at a remodeled CJs and brushing aside other social uses the building space offers we are once again presented with an old and familiar Kirk antic, it’s called telling only part of the truth.
Perhaps it was the case that the applicants feared that BOA might be less inclined to grant a conditional use permit if a social gathering hall was a significant factor in the conditional use permit application. And then, obviously unwritten but without doubt there is the unique pleasure that sly dog trickery brings – after all what could be more delightful, short of poking a finger in the eye of every non-Kirker citizen in Moscow, than knowing that their tax free property status is underwritten by all of us. I profoundly hope that they are denied that opportunity.
And this:
Moscow is on the edge of a precipice – shall we just go ahead and change the name of Main Street to Hate Street and hand the key of the city to Doug Wilson et al, or do we begin to reclaim what we appear to have lost?