Abuse Allegations Against Doug’s Church Aren’t Worth Answering
As many of you know, last week Vice magazine published a hit piece aimed at our church and church community.
In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 4 quotes from 2021 to 2026, from Blog & Mablog, Uncloseted Media and CNN, each cited to the source.
As many of you know, last week Vice magazine published a hit piece aimed at our church and church community. […] To this point we have not seen a need to get into the details in order to answer these scurrilous charges point by point. As I have said in a few other contexts, this would be like trying to chase the crows away from the road kill. One of the things we want to avoid is that of providing the reaction that these people were trying to provoke.
No, the one accusation that's out there about marital rape is an accusation that is coming from a stone-cold liar. [Spencer Macnaughton: "So, you deny those allegations that have been..."] Yeah, I deny that we've ever sanctioned marital rape. That's just flatly false... Basically, we have an aggressive stance toward this thing. Reports to the contrary, notwithstanding. This is an area where we are lied about routinely... [SM: "Why do you think it disproportionately happens in conservative Christian communities?"] I think that's false. I don't think it disproportionately happens. [SM: "You don't?"] I don't. [SM: "So the statistics are just kind of false?"] Yeah. Yeah.
[Pamela Brown: “As you well know, there have been claims that you have minimized or sort of brushed under the rug sexual abuse and violence.”] Yes, there have been claims of that nature, and I say, look at them go. Let them say what they say. It’s simply false.
[Aaron Zitner: "There are a number of women who say that the church was insufficiently active in policing and preventing abuse... What should we know about those accusations?"] If we zoom out and look at those accusations generally, as a group, there are a number of them where they're just telling lies. It is just, let's throw whatever we can at Christ Church and see what sticks. Sometimes the lies are whole cloth. Sometimes the lies are partial truths represented as the whole truth, which is an untruth. I would say to my critics, knock yourself out.