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Dear Editor:

Pam writing to express my
disappointnient at the “straw-
man” character ass;
the Rev. Dr. Don Faris in the
Nov. 19 North Shore News
Mailbox.

Having met ccumenically
with Don weekly for many
years at the North Shore
Clergy Prayer Group, I don’t
recognize the stereotyped pic-
ture that his critics have paint-
ed of Don,

Far from being “cranky” as
suggested by his UCC col-
league Rev. Art Griffin, I have
experienced Don as sepresent-
ing the best of the United
Church heritage of gracious-
ness and forbearance. Having
spent ame as a United Church
missionary in Zambia, Africa
and then completing his doc-
torate at Edinburgh, Don sym-
bolizes the United Church
vision of breadth, scholarship,
and world concern, As a for-
mer Minister of Education for

ination of

MAIL Box:
Countering criticism of reverend

the Saskatchewan NDP gov-
ernment, Don's bold critique
brought a breakthrough: in the
backward alcoholism treat-
ment policies.

The United Church
Observer described Don as
“Canada’s Bravest Politician.”

His books Trejan Horse
and The Homosexual Challenge
proved once agiin that Don is
not atraid challenge
entrenched cultural sterco-
types. :

Don Faris is not objecting
to biblical usage of feminine
similes relating to God. What
Don and many other christians
are concerned about is the
intentional subversion of the
Trinitarian nature of God.

To make baptizing in the
name of the Father, Son and
Holy Spirit an optional: mode
is to seriously harm our ecu-
menical unity as fellow chris-
tians.

Don is right that many
other denominations would be

Cansiidate’s leiter corrected

DUE to an editing error, a

ietter published in the Dec. 3

North Shore News from
North Vancouver District

council. candidate Maureer: .

McKeon Holmes included
the paragraph:
“To say that the victors

meres mechanical & clectrical repairs
trained technician. .

won a seat because they believe
the electorate had cnough of
council shenanigans and  per-
sonal agendas would be simpli-
fying our politics to the
extreme.”

What Ms McKeon Holmes
wrote was: “To say. that the
yictors won a seat because they

ad one group supportin
them would be simplifying our

litics to the. extreme. I

lieve the electorate . had
enough of council shenanigans
and personal agendas.”

ced to begin rebaptizing

d Church people who
join their churches. The cur-
rent campaign to indoctrinate
maintine Christians in rhe wor-
ship of the Father/Mother
god/dess in our hymnbooks
and liturgies will only ultimate-
ly harm the well-being and

unity of the Canadian Church.
In short, God the Father
likes his name Who are we to
prove on Jesus’ own naming
of the mystery of God in his”
remarkable Lord’s Prayer?
Rev. Ed Hird
Vancouver
ird@telus.net

Feminist fanatics

Dear Editor: ;

I just wanted to say that J
thought Hana Mercer’s Nov.
19 Fair Comment column on
“boy bashing in schools” was
great.

fam a male student at SFU

in the Contemporary Arts pro-.

gram (which is largely female-
dominated) and I cannot seem
to escape the biases of femi-
nism no matter where I curn.
Every female teacher some-
how manages to bring the

- argument around to point out

that everything is overrun by

males.. Even when studying

patronage of the theatres in the
18th century, feminist theory

“appears to be an integral por-

tion of our course.

Or if I produce any artwork
with any sort of tall thin form
in it, I immediately am criti-
cized for producing artwork
which involv res phallic symbol-
ism.

Thus meaning that I obvi-"
ously am promoting malic:
dominance — in. 3:
(Wherher: the obj}

ject
sent aes “

foreground of a painting docs-

n't matter.) This becomes very-
wearing on the spirits, when all
I want to do is fearn but 1 am

: consistently told that “I would-

n’t_ understand the female’s
position in society as I am just
a man who has never known
any different.” _
I agree that { do not knew
_ what it is like to bea woman,
“but £ don’t wish. to. oppress
anyone and therefore I am all
for ‘equal rights berween. gen-
der, races... you name it. ©. <..
“ What T don’t understand is:
why’ feminists have co turn
absolutely everything into an
argument over: their: rights as
Contrary to popular belief.
ular at
T don’ art bakes Popul men: are”
out. to’ overpower women ‘in
they attempt to do.:
Basi it was just: nice to
ilip open the pages of the paper
and - sce: that -someozie (ev
better as a woman) 'has
‘nized what is going on i
school -systems, :and ‘in* some

rs d0, No

Yy

We look: forward: to helpin

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