I am not going to spend a great of time today answering this — it is Thanksgiving after all — but I thought I should let you know about it, and make two quick observations.
First, our FV critics are so bent on pursuing their particular “defense of the gospel” that they are willing to join forces with Intoleristas, feminists, abortion-rights advocates, lesbians, radical secularists, megadisgruntled Christians, openness theists, anonymous hacksaw bloggers, neo-Confederates, pietists, and more. This is one bizarre alliance. But always remember — where there’s smoke, there’s a smoke machine.
Secondly, please know that this ad hoc alliance has formed for one reason, and only one reason. This counterattack has been mounted because the questions I have been raising about the judicial process being applied to Steve Wilkins via Louisiana have been potent and effective questions, and to this date, unanswered. This is intended as a distraction, but I am not going to be distracted. Look at them! These are the guys assuring us that Louisiana is going to get a fair trial to the nth degree, and then they haul out an Internet muckrake. Their idea of sorting out the evidence is to gather all the mud you can, throw all of it, and if any sticks it must have been true. Suit yourselves, guys — for all the judicious believers out there you aren’t helping your case any. Not at all, in fact.
It is Thanksgiving, so let us all give thanks. Jesus said that when men curse you, and revile you, and despitefully use you, the appropriate response is to rejoice and be glad. He also said that when we have been mudgobbed and deadcatted, the particular thing He wanted us to do was to bless those involved in it. And so my hope and prayer is that Jeff Hutchinson and his family would have the best Thanksgiving day feast they have ever had, that God would profoundly bless him, his wife, his children, and all his friends. I pray that the turkey would be the very best, and that the gravy would be better. I pray for all blessings on his head, spiritual, covenantal, and temporal. And, as God is my witness, I have really and sincerely asked for this on his behalf, and not just pretended to. And amen.