[Vision2020] Kimmell Still Has Not Responded

[Carl Westberg]

If the head of the Monroe, Louisiana Chamber of Commerce gave a powerpoint 
presentation praising the leadership skills of Ulysses S. Grant and included 
several photographs of the Union flag in doing so, would Steve Wilkins 
protest?  I would tend to think he would.                                    
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
           Carl Westberg Jr.


>From: Nick Gier <ngier at uidaho.edu>
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] Kimmell Still Has Not Responded
>Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:45:59 -0700
>
>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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