I’m told that I hate Dr. John Dehlin, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., and seek to destroy his character. And, since everybody knows that I’m a viciously hateful person who never writes anything substantive but who specializes, instead, in mean-spirited personal attacks, there’s considerable plausibility to that claim.
In this case, however, it’s not true. I’m posting about Dr. John Dehlin now (and over the past two or three days or so) not because I care much about what he’s up to — I actually don’t deliberately follow him at all, think about him quite rarely, and post about him even less than I think about him — but because there’s a controversy that involves him and Scott Gordon, who is a friend of mine. A controversy that, by the way, Dr. John Dehlin summoned into existence.
I like Scott Gordon, I heard his supposedly horrendous remarks in Sweden, and I think he’s being unjustly maligned. So I rise not for an attack on Dr. John Dehlin, whom I typically ignore, but in defense of a gentle, mild-mannered friend who doesn’t deserve the attacks he’s receiving from certain folks.
As, it seems, does Stephen Smoot, who — despite his unfortunate political liberalism — is also a good guy, and who has posted a very lucid, calm piece on this entirely silly “scandal”:
“John Dehlin and the Art of Selective Outrage (#GordonGate)”
Posted from Logan, Utah
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