[Vision2020] Kimmell Still Has Not Responded

[Nick Gier]

Greetings:

I've been out of town for two weeks, so I'm still catching up on a few 
issues.  I've submitted the following letter to the Daily News.

To the Editor:

In his letter (Letters, August ?) Jim Parsons claimed that Paul Kimmell had 
responded to all the allegations against him.  This is patently 
untrue.  Consider the following:

· Kimmell has been repeatedly asked to explain what the meaning and 
implication of the “oversight from the elders” of Christ Church.  I know of 
no other church or institution in Moscow that would compromise the 
conscience of any elected official in this manner.

· Kimmell has been repeatedly asked to explain why he chose Robert E. Lee 
as an example of business leadership for a town that has just been through 
a divisive debate about neo-Confederate influences in Christ Church and 
Logos School.

Kimmell’s pastor Doug Wilson has admitted to displaying the Confederate 
flag at a school function and a conservative Presbyterian has written to 
this paper attesting to the presence of the flag in Wilson’s office.

On the last page of Kimmell’s presentation he has the audacity to display 
the American and Confederate flags side by side with the strong implication 
that both are of equal worth, or that they are still in great tension. Some 
would call this treason.

Steve Wilkins, Wilson’s good friend and co-author of Slavery As It Was, is 
a founding director of the League of the South, an organization dedicated 
to the withdrawal of 15 states from the union under the banner of white 
male Calvinist authority.  Wilkins is also one of the most active student 
recruiters for New St. Andrews College and Logos School.

When traveling and I identify myself as a Idahoan, I invariably have to 
respond: “The potatoes are down south and that the Aryan Nations compound, 
thanks to the Southern Poverty Law Center, has been dismantled.”

I dread the thought of Moscow’s image being marred by people who want to 
refight the Civil War and bring alien ideas to our fine town.

Nick Gier

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