{"id":35639,"date":"2018-03-13T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/?p=35639"},"modified":"2018-03-13T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T13:22:00","slug":"pastor-doug-wilson-the-civil-authorities-cant-be-trusted-with-sexual-abuse-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2018\/03\/pastor-doug-wilson-the-civil-authorities-cant-be-trusted-with-sexual-abuse-cases.html","title":{"rendered":"Pastor Doug Wilson: The Civil Authorities Can’t Be Trusted with Sexual Abuse Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Controversial Idaho pastor Doug Wilson, who himself has a checkered past dealing with sex abusers in his church, has written a blog post<\/a> about Rachael Denhollander, convicted gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar\u2019s first accuser (Nassar was convicted of sexual abusing hundreds of gymnasts). Wilson\u2019s post goes in directions I would not have suspected\u2014namely, most of Wilson\u2019s post is actually a screed against Boz Tchividjian, a grandson of Billy Graham and Liberty University professor who runs a sex abuse investigation and prevention resource ministry, Godly Response to Abuse in a Christian Environment<\/a> (GRACE).<\/p>\n

Wilson opens his blog post with this:<\/p>\n

When it comes to dealing with the carnage left by out-of-control lusts, our culture is having a hard time of it. I am speaking specifically of sexual abuse and its aftermath.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So let\u2019s be clear\u2014Wilson calls sexual abuse \u201cthe carnage left by out-of-control lusts.\u201d This is precisely the problem. Sexual abuse is about power, not about \u201cout-of-control lusts.\u201d That Wilson views sexual abuse as simply \u201cout-of-control lusts,\u201d however, may help explain his history of justifying child sex abusers in his own church\u2014and his insistence in letters he has written to judges in these cases that the perpetrators are cured and completely better now, and not at all a danger.<\/p>\n

Wilson has no idea how sexual abuse actually works.<\/p>\n

Many churches heal the wound lightly, saying that it is a \u201cspiritual\u201d matter, something to be taken care of \u201cinternally.\u201d Victims are often told glibly to \u201cforgive,\u201d as though an \u201call-better\u201d forgiveness for sexual assault came in a cardboard box, like Band-Aids do. At the same time, other Christians naively assume that the \u201ccivil authorities\u201d have their act together on this, which they frequently do not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is absolutely true that civil authorities don\u2019t always have their act together\u2014many rapists and sexual abusers are never convicted, whether due to lack of evidence or due to, well, other things. A judge described<\/a> Natalie Greenfield\u2019s rape, at age 14, by a man ten years her senior as a\u00a0\u201chomeschool teenage love affair\u201d and sentenced her abuser to only four months in prison.<\/p>\n

But this isn\u2019t what Wilson is talking about, is it? We know that\u2019s not what Wilson is talking about<\/a> because he wrote a letter<\/a> to the judge claiming (falsely) that Natalie\u2019s father had permitted the two to be in a courting relationship (he had not) and had invited Wight to move in with the family (Yes, Wight was living with Natalie\u2019s family when the abuse occurred, but that\u2019s on Wilson. Wilson runs a college and a seminary, and does not provide dormitories for either; instead, he encourages families in his churches to put up his students as boarders).<\/p>\n

In his letter to the judge in the case, Wilson wrote that Wight was guilty for his crime \u201cno matter what circumstances actually set up the temptation\u201d\u2014here again we get the idea that sexual abuse is the result of \u201cout-of-control lusts\u201d\u2014but that\u00a0\u201cI do not believe that this situation in any way paints Jamin as a sexual predator.\u201d Not a predator, just that out-of-control lusts thing\u2014he had moved in with his 14-year-old girlfriend (in Wilson\u2019s false portrayal of the situation), how was he supposed to help himself? It\u2019s understandable, really.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see what happened to Wight after the judge sentenced him to only four months in prison, due in part to Wilson\u2019s portrayal of the situation:<\/p>\n

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Mr. Wight spent four months in the North Idaho Correctional Institution in Cottonwood and was on probation for just under three years before requesting and receiving an early release. He was subsequently convicted of perjury for lying under oath at his probation release hearing by claiming that he had never violated the terms of his probation despite the fact that he began regularly breaking the alcohol prohibition term since shortly after his release from prison. Concurrent with the perjury case, Mr. Wight was also in court for and convicted of battering his wife, who subsequently divorced him. (Full battery and perjury a davits in reference section; together they paint quite the picture of a man with utter disregard for both everyone around him and for the law).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

After years of physical and emotional abuse (often in front of their children), Wight\u2019s wife left him and divorced him. The abuse is described in an affidavit at the end of this<\/a> document. This is what comes of Wilson\u2019s interpreting sexual abuse as \u201cout-of-control lusts\u201d and thus missing all of the warning signs that something was very wrong\u2014something that had nothing to do with mere sexual desire.<\/div>\n

But this sort of miscarriage of justice\u2014Wight\u2019s short term for his abuse of Natalie Greenfield\u2014is not what Wilson is referencing.<\/p>\n

Here is how Wilson discusses the civil authorities:<\/p>\n

Our cultural degradation really does create a dilemma for responsible believers who care about protecting victims. Remember we live in a time when our civil authorities have thrown their full support to homosexuals \u201cmarrying,\u201d the bloody fruitlessness imposed by the abortionist\u2019s bloody instruments, the selling of the pieces afterwards, boys transitioning to girls, and vice versa. The iniquitous muddle goes all the way up. We cannot assume we live in a time when sexual abusers can simply be handed over to righteous civil authorities.<\/strong> Our civil authorities have taken the lead in mandating various forms of sexual abuse.<\/strong> Our current civil establishment is a travesty. The thing is a royal mess.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For all the horrors of Wilson\u2019s viewpoint here\u2014his equation between sexual abuse and marriage equality, abortion, and trans rights\u2014I really wish he was suggesting that sexual abusers are let go too often. At least then he would be recognizing a thing that actually occurs. But he\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

Have a look at what he says about the rules of evidence:<\/p>\n

I have been referring to the rules of evidence. By them I mean things like due process, the presumption of innocence, the right to confront your accuser, the requirement of two and three witnesses, hearing both sides before making a determination, and so forth.<\/strong> These principles are deeply embedded in our legal system, which in turn was Christian in its origins. They have been badly corroded in recent years, but they are still functional and still most necessary. But because they are deeply embedded in our legal system, they are part of the establishment. They are part of the \u201cway things are.\u201d This means they are an essential element in what feminists like to call the patriarchy. As far as the climate of the times is concerned, they are part of the oppression.<\/p>\n

So for a certain class of person, the principles of justice, the rules of evidence, are themselves sexual offenders, and should be put on a registry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He\u2019s not suggesting that the civil authorities, by approving things he views as sexual abuse, such as marriage equality (?!), are willy nilly all about sexual abuse. Instead he seems to be suggesting the latter\u2014that the civil authorities are too quick to convict sexual abusers without adequate evidence, without giving abusers the right to cross-examine their accusers, and so forth. And then there\u2019s the witness requirement\u2014sexual abuse is by it\u2019s very nature typically hidden. \u00a0You frequently will not have multiple witnesses.<\/p>\n

The core of Wilson\u2019s argument does not make sense. He says the the civil authorities have led the way in condoning various forms of sexual abuse\u2014but also, apparently, that the civil authorities are too quick to convict in other forms of sexual abuse. If that is his contention, why connect the two at all? What does civil authorities\u2019 sanctioning of same-sex marriages have to do with their treatment of child sexual abuse cases? Wilson seems to be suggesting that the civil authorities are too easy on sexual abuse in some cases (marriage equality, apparently) and too hard on it in others. What connection is he actually drawing on between the two?<\/p>\n

And then Wilson adds this:<\/p>\n

We live in a time when it is possible for a sexual predator employed by a church to molest a bunch of kids, get caught, get quietly fired, and then set up shop down the road at another church. That does happen; it can happen. It happens in Roman Catholic churches and it happens in evangelical churches. We also live in a time when it is possible for a well-respected minister with a fine reputation to be forced to step down from his ministry because twenty-five years earlier some junior high kids were playing grabass at a church-sponsored youth camp. And the cabin counselor, barely out of high school himself, dealt with it by means of a brusque and inadequately-trained \u201cknock that off or I\u2019ll tell Smitty.\u201d In short, we live in a time when people do stupid things and we also live in a time when they do dark things. We have to deal with both idiots and orcs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I tried looking up the second case referenced here\u2014the claim that a minister was forced to step down because he told junior high kids \u201cplaying grabass at a church-sponsored youth camp\u201d to knock it off\u2014but I couldn\u2019t find any such case. What exactly is \u201cgrabass\u201d anyway? Is he talking about consensual sexual activity? Or is he talking about kids being harassed or molested by other kids? The fact that he doesn\u2019t see fit to differentiate makes me wonder if he can tell the difference.<\/p>\n

Let me know if any of you can find a reference to a pastor being let go in the situation described above, because I couldn\u2019t find any such thing. At this point I suspect that Wilson made it up whole cloth.<\/p>\n

The real problem with Wilson\u2019s post\u2014and I didn\u2019t even get into his claims that Boz Tchividjian is biased toward seeing sexual abuse where there is none, and shouldn\u2019t be trusted with an investigation\u2014is his post\u2019s effects on those reading it. What message does the pastor or evangelical layman glean from Wilson\u2019s post? They learn that the civil authorities should not be trusted to adequately handle sexual abuse cases.<\/p>\n

Such distrust of civil authorities in turn has two results: First, it will make the pastors and laypeople reading his post less likely to report sexual abuse to the civil authorities. Second, it will make the pastors and laypeople reading his post more likely to give individuals convicted of sexual abuse the benefit of the doubt. Neither of these are positive outcomes.<\/p>\n

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The real problem with Wilson’s post—and I didn’t even get into his claims that Boz Tchividjian is biased toward seeing sexual abuse where there is none, and shouldn’t be trusted with an investigation—is his post’s effects on those reading it. What message does the pastor or evangelical layman glean from Wilson’s post? They learn that the civil authorities should not be trusted to adequately handle sexual abuse cases.<\/p>\n

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