Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Does Martin Luther College Monitor Facebook Posts from Their Students?

Zachary Stowe, Martin Luther College, WELS, graduate

Forwarded from Stowe's Facebook account.

https://www.facebook.com/zak.stowe?fref=ts

Zak Stowe I submitted a request for advise (sic) from the ACLU by placing a LGBT Harassment Claim 11 hours ago · Like Zak Stowe This has gone too far 11 hours ago · Like Caitlyn Mahlum Awesome, good idea. His last blog update clearly shows harassment. the ACLU isn't something for McCreepinstein to want to mess with. 6 hours ago · Like Daniel Schallert I fear dude'll kinda take any sort of legal action as proof of the world hating him, which would thus be proof of the holiness of his work. Though it would also be hilarious if one of the WELS's rabid detractors were eventually forced into silence by an unholy, damned-straight-to-hell-no-questions-asked gay man and the ACLU. 5 hours ago · Like · 2

It is not libel or slander to quote someone verbatim when I have the copy of the email and its particulars. That is especially true when the same email is foolishly posted on the gentleman's Facebook account for all his friends to see.

Normal people would see slander in Zak's email to me. I see it as the sign of a troubled person who never got the spiritual guidance he needed in WELS.

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From "K" - who is anonymous.

On your latest blog post, I understand you copied the quote from his email, but do at lease correct this part

"while he was posting on a gay porn site:"


He was clearly being inflammatory there to make his point, Grindr isn't actually a porn site, it's just a dating app like any other dating app. While I won't question whether or not you can say the rest, I hope you can at least see that that isn't fair.

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GJ - I did not post the entire email because it was lewd, obscene, and disgusting. If the readers saw the entire email, they would agree that the point of the email was insulting, slanderous, and unbecoming a recent graduate of a Christian college.

Perhaps dating via a gay website is normal in WELS, but I doubt it. 

WELS headquarters got into big trouble when the FBI raided it for Joel Hochmuth's computer files.