[Vision2020] Pastor Wilson is as slippery as ever

[nickgier at adelphia.net]

Greetings:

I just returned from Wilson's response to the "My Town" documentary.  There was no panel as promised, bu just Da Man talkin'.  I may have something else to say about the evening, but I will now limit my post to two points.

First, Wilson now disassociates his Paleo-Confederacy from anything having to do with the historical Southern Confederacy.  He now says it is simply the original American republic with Senators being appointed by the states. 

He now also disagrees with the Founding Fathers about saying that only propertied males could vote.  The New Doug Wilson now says that he never said that women could not vote.  (He would now only exempt students from voting because they do not own property!) In the excerpt below and in "My Town" he of course says something very different.  

Second, again Wilson claimed that at no time did any of his institutions display the Confederate Flag or portraits of Robert E. Lee.

But our own Wayne Fox has posted a Lee portrait hanging in a Logos School Room several times on this list (please do it again), and a visiting Calvinist pastor wrote to the Daily News testifying that the Confederate flag was hanging in Wilson's office when he once visited.

And then there is Wilson's own confession in a story in the Spokesman Review, which I've excerpted below.

I've worked with reporter Shawn Vestal before on faculty union issues and he is top notch.  I called him and asked him if this is what Wilson said, and he was offended that he would ask him such a question.  "Of course Wilson said this; otherwise I would not have written it!"

Old-school Controversy surrounds New Saint Andrews College 
 
Shawn Vestal 
Staff writer for the Spokesman Review 
October 22, 2006 

Wilson echoed that comment but said he might be fairly described as 
"paleo-confederate" - favoring many ideas of the Southern confederacy, such 
as agrarian living, opposition to a strong central government, voting based 
on property ownership and a focus on traditional family and community, but 
not slavery. . . .

He acknowledges that portraits of Lee and Confederate flags have adorned 
office and school walls at times and says that he believes in some - but not 
all - of the tenets on which the Southern confederacy was built: a society 
centered around God and belief, a simple farming life as opposed to a hectic 
modern one, and an emphasis on traditional family and community. . . .

Nick Gier, Proud Intolerista
Intolerance is a virtue when one is intolerant of dishonesty, deception, evasion, bigotry, and bad manners.