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The case of Owen and the memorials, September 25th, 2023, introduction in a talk of the

G3 conference last week, Owen Stran, attempted to take a bold stand and it did not go well

for him.

He said in a hear I stand sort of way that God's love extended beyond white people.

Whoa, this unobjectionable sentiment was rightly fisked by many of the wits of Twitter

in August, Congress assembled, and together they all made merry.

The reason it was not surprising that this happened was because Stran was acting as though

there were some unnamed people out there who would in fact object to his unobjectionable

bromide, thereby revealing themselves to be bigots.

And it was a shrewd move to keep these folks largely unnamed because some of them were

likely sharing the platform with them there at G3.

What he was doing amounted to casting Russell Morelach's smear shade at advocates of

Christian nationalism.

And at just about the same time, an online ruckus exploded over some proposed memorials

on ethnic issues that the CREC is considering this coming week at our council.

For an example, here's one response.

The contention of some of the participants in this row was that the CREC was considering

doing the same thing that Owen Stran seemed to be doing, EG, performative virtue signaling

and countering to the woke.

Oh no, it was a general sentiment about all that.

And hence it became necessary to fire up my computer.

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