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A Semitic Jew from the lowest social caste in Palestine who was of dubious parentage, worked as an itinerant laborer, was homeless as an adult, mixed freely with and loved those he was religiously forbidden to and socially not supposed to, and who, while living under Roman occupation, nonetheless preached radical, active non-violence AND equated himself with Yahweh, declaring He was the long-awaited Messiah and the gateway to eternal life while eschewing the power of temporal politics -- yeah, it was an unlikely, although I believe prophesied, start for the One I worship. <br><br>But those who followed Christ then not only experienced real persecution -- as opposed to the profound oppression of, say, not being allowed to meet for Bible Club on school property -- but also exercised a measure of courage and discernment utterly lacking in those individuals and congregations among whom the Klan and others like them flourished. Any man, movement, message or ministry that embraces or acknowledges Jesus Christ as its head has to demonstrate behavior that agrees with his Gospel and his teachings. It's not equivocal, it's not difficult, it's not an ethical dilemma beyond the capacity of any layperson. And it's not optional. <br><br>By that simple standard, no Christian man or woman or child above the age of, say, five, can walk with Christ and march with the Klan. They can remain Baptist deacons, go to Bible study, lead a prayer group, evangelize the neighbors and bake cookies for the Ladies Auxiliary, but that has nothing to do with walking with Christ. Any hate, and a doctrine that requires hate on the basis of any ontological characteristic or expressed idea, is antithetical to Christianity.<br><br>That it's so often found a toehold in Christiandom is tragic beyond words and obscene beyond comprehension.<br><br><font style="" color="#8064a2"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><font style="" face="Verdana">Keely<br>www.keely-prevailingwinds.com<br></font></font></font><br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: debismith@moscow.com<br>To: kjajmix1@msn.com; moscowcares@moscow.com; vision2020@moscow.com<br>CC: fritzknorr@gmail.com; wmsteed@ci.moscow.id.us; sscott@ci.moscow.id.us; marilynbeckett@gmail.com; nchaney@ci.moscow.id.us; helen.yost@vandals.uidaho.edu; dzeiger@uidaho.edu; jeannemchale@hotmail.com; wkrauss@ci.moscow.id.us; foc@friendsoftheclearwater.org; dcarscallen@ci.moscow.id.us; cpenni@gmail.com; tlamar@ci.moscow.id.us; tbrown@ci.moscow.id.us; ponysnpups@gmail.com; lin@wildblue.net; bhaverstick@yahoo.com; jbradish@roadrunner.com; loisb@q.com; emilypoor@gmail.com; sperrine@potlatch.com; chicory@wildblue.net; aaronament@moscow.com; alchidester@juno.com; basketmakeart@yahoo.com<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The Ku Klux Klan Seeks Members From the Palouse<br>Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 19:31:35 -0500<br><br>
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<div><font face="Arial">The historical Jesus (Esau) would be anathema to these
people. He would not look like them, think like them, or have a message like
this. He likely would look like our those now targeted as Muslim Terrorists,
would accept everyone, was a Jew, and preached loving kindness. Yet religious
groups still lead the way in usurping Him as the way to Heaven. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Sad. Glad I am an enlightened Pagan.......</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Debi R-S</font></div>
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<div style="background:#e4e4e4;font:10pt arial;font-color:black"><b>From:</b>
<a title="kjajmix1@msn.com" href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">keely emerinemix</a>
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<div style="font:10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="moscowcares@moscow.com" href="mailto:moscowcares@moscow.com">moscowcares@moscow.com</a> ; <a title="vision2020@moscow.com" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a> </div>
<div style="font:10pt arial"><b>Cc:</b> <a title="fritzknorr@gmail.com" href="mailto:fritzknorr@gmail.com">fritzknorr@gmail.com</a> ; <a title="wmsteed@ci.moscow.id.us" href="mailto:wmsteed@ci.moscow.id.us">wmsteed@ci.moscow.id.us</a> ; <a title="sscott@ci.moscow.id.us" href="mailto:sscott@ci.moscow.id.us">sscott@ci.moscow.id.us</a> ; <a title="marilynbeckett@gmail.com" href="mailto:marilynbeckett@gmail.com">marilynbeckett@gmail.com</a> ; <a title="nchaney@ci.moscow.id.us" href="mailto:nchaney@ci.moscow.id.us">Nancy
Chaney</a> ; <a title="helen.yost@vandals.uidaho.edu" href="mailto:helen.yost@vandals.uidaho.edu">helen.yost@vandals.uidaho.edu</a>
; <a title="dzeiger@uidaho.edu" href="mailto:dzeiger@uidaho.edu">dzeiger@uidaho.edu</a> ; <a title="jeannemchale@hotmail.com" href="mailto:jeannemchale@hotmail.com">jeannemchale@hotmail.com</a> ; <a title="wkrauss@ci.moscow.id.us" href="mailto:wkrauss@ci.moscow.id.us">wkrauss@ci.moscow.id.us</a> ; <a title="foc@friendsoftheclearwater.org" href="mailto:foc@friendsoftheclearwater.org">foc@friendsoftheclearwater.org</a>
; <a title="dcarscallen@ci.moscow.id.us" href="mailto:dcarscallen@ci.moscow.id.us">dcarscallen@ci.moscow.id.us</a> ; <a title="cpenni@gmail.com" href="mailto:cpenni@gmail.com">cpenni@gmail.com</a> ;
<a title="tlamar@ci.moscow.id.us" href="mailto:tlamar@ci.moscow.id.us">tlamar@ci.moscow.id.us</a> ; <a title="tbrown@ci.moscow.id.us" href="mailto:tbrown@ci.moscow.id.us">tbrown@ci.moscow.id.us</a> ; <a title="ponysnpups@gmail.com" href="mailto:ponysnpups@gmail.com">ponysnpups@gmail.com</a> ; <a title="lin@wildblue.net" href="mailto:lin@wildblue.net">lin@wildblue.net</a> ;
<a title="bhaverstick@yahoo.com" href="mailto:bhaverstick@yahoo.com">bhaverstick@yahoo.com</a> ; <a title="jbradish@roadrunner.com" href="mailto:jbradish@roadrunner.com">jbradish@roadrunner.com</a> ; <a title="loisb@q.com" href="mailto:loisb@q.com">loisb@q.com</a> ; <a title="emilypoor@gmail.com" href="mailto:emilypoor@gmail.com">emilypoor@gmail.com</a> ; <a title="sperrine@potlatch.com" href="mailto:sperrine@potlatch.com">Sally
Perrine</a> ; <a title="chicory@wildblue.net" href="mailto:chicory@wildblue.net">chicory@wildblue.net</a> ; <a title="aaronament@moscow.com" href="mailto:aaronament@moscow.com">aaronament@moscow.com</a> ; <a title="alchidester@juno.com" href="mailto:alchidester@juno.com">alchidester@juno.com</a> ; <a title="basketmakeart@yahoo.com" href="mailto:basketmakeart@yahoo.com">basketmakeart@yahoo.com</a> </div>
<div style="font:10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 02, 2012 3:07
PM</div>
<div style="font:10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] The Ku Klux
Klan Seeks Members From the Palouse</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Tom, once again we're indebted to you and "Moscow Cares," as well
as "Not On The Palouse," for your work in keeping us all posted about the
hate-driven threats to freedom, civility, and decency that arise from the
worst elements of society. This is chilling -- not that Tom Trail,
a decent man if ever there was one, received it (as opposed to, say, my
hairdresser receiving it), but that such filth continues to propagate.
<br><br>I've said it before, I'll say it now, and I'll probably say it 'til
the day I die: The Christian Church, the Body of Christ in the United
States, is largely responsible for the birth, growth, and continued presence
of the Klan and other white supremacy groups. Virtually every
manifestation of the Klan, from its inception in the 1920s as an
anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish "fraternity," was begun by white, male "Christians"
who trumpeted their Baptist or Methodist or Holy Temple of Perpetual Glory
membership -- and went unchallenged by the Gospel-loving disciples among
them. This cancer could have been excised early on if the Church had
been committed to the truth of the Gospel and cast its lot with Christ rather
than wallowing in waters of privilege, hate, ignorance, violence, and
bigotry. But it wasn't; in fact, it was "Christians" who helped in
its spread, and its the Church now that is left with the uncomfortable reality
that its silence then and its largely impotent reaction to hate now has left a
stain on the Body of Christ that will last 'til the end.<br><br>This happened
on our watch. Versions of it that pop up here and there, particularly in
the area we all live in, continue and flourish. The growth of racial,
sexual, classist bigotry is undeniable -- and where it's found in the "Church"
that claims the name of Christ, it must be confronted by others who claim the
Name. <br><br>My Church -- not my individual congregation, but the
Christian Church in the U.S. -- has been guilty of allowing what our Savior
never would. How odd it is that breaking from the silence and
acquiescence to evil too often found in the institutional Church might well,
for some of us, be a significant step in moving closer to Christ. It's
my duty and my privilege, then, as a Christ-disciple, to fight this 'til the
very end. I don't want to have to explain to Him on judgment day why I
felt that "tolerance" or silence or rationalizing it all away was the path I
chose.<br><br><font color="#8064a2"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><font face="Verdana">Keely<br>www.keely-prevailingwinds.com<br></font></font></font><br><br>
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From: moscowcares@moscow.com<br>Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:54:13 -0700<br>To:
vision2020@moscow.com<br>CC: fritzknorr@gmail.com; wmsteed@ci.moscow.id.us;
sscott@ci.moscow.id.us; marilynbeckett@gmail.com; nchaney@ci.moscow.id.us;
helen.yost@vandals.uidaho.edu; dzeiger@uidaho.edu; aaronament@moscow.com;
loisb@q.com; foc@friendsoftheclearwater.org; dcarscallen@ci.moscow.id.us;
cpenni@gmail.com; emilypoor@gmail.com; tbrown@ci.moscow.id.us;
ponysnpups@gmail.com; lin@wildblue.net; bhaverstick@yahoo.com;
jbradish@roadrunner.com; wkrauss@ci.moscow.id.us; tlamar@ci.moscow.id.us;
sperrine@potlatch.com; chicory@wildblue.net; jeannemchale@hotmail.com;
alchidester@juno.com; basketmakeart@yahoo.com<br>Subject: [Vision2020] The Ku
Klux Klan Seeks Members From the Palouse<br><br>
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<div>Greetings -</div>
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<div><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size:large;font-family:Arial">On March 31, 2012, Idaho State
Representative Tom Trail received the following introduction and membership
application. The envelope and its contents indicate that it had
originated from an office of the Ku Klux Klan, <span>an organization
based on hate, in defiance of everything the people of Latah County know and
believe of Representative Trail.</span></span></div>
<div><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size:large;font-family:Arial"><span><br></span></span></div><img id="ecxC9B08FF0-C53E-4A05-8476-4FCC41EB0D6D" alt="image.jpeg" src="cid:6306CC9FAE51433B9FC49F3A0A3E5E78@OwnerPC" height="264" width="600">
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<div><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size:large;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span> <span class="ecxApple-style-span"><img id="ecx782FADEE-2AD3-46A2-A308-68551B04C061" alt="image.jpeg" src="cid:C912C8A1C34D467F8F5C6477524DF56E@OwnerPC" height="769" width="600"></span></div>
<div><span class="ecxApple-style-span"></span> </div><img id="ecxDCE47CD6-1EE6-4BCC-B5E2-2A7E037E1851" alt="image.jpeg" src="cid:065218C48D0C4C7F8D040DB89E4CE786@OwnerPC" height="774" width="600">
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<div>Downloadable copies of the flyer and envelope may be accessed within the
"Not On The Palouse" website at:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.notonthepalouse.com/Klan_Flyer_033112.htm" target="_blank">http://www.notonthepalouse.com/Klan_Flyer_033112.htm</a></div>
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<div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . ,</div>
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<div>"Moscow Cares"</div>
<div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com" target="_blank">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div>
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<div>Tom Hansen</div>
<div>Moscow, Idaho</div>
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<div>"If not us, who?</div>
<div>If not now, when?"</div>
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<div>- Unknown</div>
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