<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">Doug Wilson:
Thy name is “Slippery”</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">Wilson’s column and mine are appended below</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">So the Rebel Flag was used only in reenactments at Logos School with a
balance of Union and Confederate student “soldiers”? (Tell us another one!) Does this mean that
the people at the 2007 picnic divided up for Civil War games, too? But the band Potatohead did not see a Union
flag for balance, did they? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">While you
were going around with your Confederate clipboard, did Doug Jones go around
with a Union clipboard for balance? Was
Jones’ views on Civil War part of the reason why he left the Church, and
presumably left town? A visiting
conservative minister saw a Confederate flag in your office, but failed to
notice a Union battle flag.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">Steve Wilkins, founding director of the League of the South, was more than
just a good friend. He was co-author of
the slavery booklet (the source of the plagiarized sections), and you joined
him writing for the neo-Confederate journal <i>The</i>
<i>Southern Partisan</i>. Calling yourself a
“paleo-Confederate” instead does not help your cause one bit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">You could have ended the controversy very easily, by agreeing with U. of
Wash. Professor Tracy McKenzie, a congregant at your own sister Christ Church
in Seattle, that your slavery booklet should be condemned. Instead you took on McKenzie, an expert on
the ante-Bellum South, and wrote <i>Black and Tan</i> in defense of your discredited
views.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">I will continue to remind you of your past as long as you remain so
intellectually dishonest and slippery about it.
The good people of the Palouse need to be reminded of your outrageous
views.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">His View: Find
a better spokesman than Gier</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">By Doug Wilson </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">Posted: Friday, June 26, 2015 12:00 am </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">Unfortunate is too mild a word to describe Nick Gier's most
recent foray into an old controversy (His View, Thursday). I do not mind a
controversy when controversy is absolutely necessary, but it really isn't
called for in this instance. Christ Church is a church that has many members
who are active in many aspects of our community life together. Most of our
involvement is welcomed by the community outside our church family, but even
more of it could be if we could persuade some diehard combatants to lay down
their arms.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">Part of Gier's "argument" was to connect me to
Steve Wilkins, who was once connected to Michael Hill, who has done something
before with the Council of Conservative Citizens, who had a website that was
cited by Dylann Roof in his horrendous attempt to set off a race war. I am
disappointed - if Gier had just gone two more rounds he could probably have
connected me to Kevin Bacon. The only part of this that had any merit or
substance is that Steve is a friend of mine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">Gier also cited the Southern Poverty Law Center, the world's
richest civil rights organization ($300 million and counting), as a reliable
source of information about hate groups. They were the same group that had to
apologize this last February for putting Dr. Ben Carson, the famed neurosurgeon
and Republican presidential candidate, in their "extremist file." The
FBI's hate crimes Web page used to link to the SPLC, but they do so no longer,
which means the FBI appears to be quicker on the uptake than Gier is.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">There are a host of other scattershot errors in Gier's piece
that would cause me to sail past my word limit in trying to answer him -
because quoting out of context takes up significantly less space than providing
the needed context does. So let me give just one obvious example under this
heading. Gier cited a quotation from me in The Spokesman-Review, where I
"admitted" Confederate flags "have adorned office and school
walls at times." To take just one instance of our "outrageous" practices
on this score, I do admit that Logos School is a school, and they teach history
classes there, and in the history classes they have shown the children pictures
of episodes from the war. In those pictures, the Union forces have had their
Union flags and the Confederate forces have had their flags. When someone
reacts to this kind of thing, they are, perhaps - and I merely offer it as a
suggestion - grasping at straws.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">As it happens, I was quoted yesterday in a CNN article on
this subject. They, unlike Gier, quoted me accurately. I said, "The
Confederate flag can mean that you are at a KKK rally, that you are looking at
a truck decal in a NASCAR rally parking lot, that you are at a Skynyrd concert,
that you are looking a commemorative calendar painted by a memorabilia artist,
that you are driving by a car dealership in rural Virginia or that you saw a
photo of Kanye West taking his confusions to a whole new level." As that
list makes plain, there are uses of the Confederate battle flag that we detest,
and there are uses that we don't detest. One of the uses I personally don't
detest would be that time I saw Joan Baez singing "The Night They Drove
Old Dixie Down" in front of one.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">But Gier's very selective quotations were designed to make
me (and our church) look sympathetic to certain attitudes that we find
detestable in the extreme. We believe, as a matter of biblically informed
conscience, that racial malice and enmity is abhorrent to God, and we reject it
as a matter of principle. We believe Jesus Christ died to bring all the races and
tribes of men into one new man, established in Christ.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">If the forces of tolerance in our community want to get away
from their intolerista reputation, I would suggest a better spokesman </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">than Nick
Gier.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><b>His View: Christ Church, neo-Confederates, tolerance</b> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">By Nick
Gier</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">| Posted: Thursday, June 25, 2015 12:00 am</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">Many people have the misconception that those who take issue
with Douglas Wilson's Christ Church and New Saint Andrews College are
condemning his religious beliefs. For me and many others this is simply not
true. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">In December 2002, I invited NSA faculty and students to attend
the regional American Academy of Religion meeting, which took place on the
University of Idaho campus in May 2003. (One year, 40 percent of the papers
were presented by faculty from conservative evangelical schools.) Then NSA
President Roy Atwood, however, said they had "better things to do,"
and our relations, fueled by heated debate about Wilson's booklet "Slavery
As It Was," got worse and worse. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">When over 1,000 people signed the full-page ad "Not in
Our Town" in this newspaper in December 2003, the issue was not
evangelical theology; rather, it was Wilson's slavery booklet, in which he and
his coauthor Steven Wilkins state: "There has never been a multiracial
society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history
of the world" (page 24). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">Wilkins was a founding director of the League of the South,
which has been declared a "white supremacist hate group" by the
Southern Poverty Law Center. LOS founder Michael Hill proposed an independent
neo-Confederacy of 15 states would have the duty to protect the values of
Anglo-Celtic culture from black Americans, who are "a compliant and
deadly underclass." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">The LOS organizes public protests in conjunction with the Council
of Conservative Citizens, whose website decries "negroes, queers and other
retrograde species of humanity." In his own manifesto Charleston shooter
Dylan Roof stated that, after he started reading the CCC website in 2012, he
"was never the same." He was particularly drawn to "pages upon
pages of black on white murders," which convinced him he had to start a
race war against all black people. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">Two UI history professors took time from their busy schedules
to refute the slavery booklet paragraph by paragraph. It was later discovered
that 20 percent of the booklet was lifted verbatim from Robert Fogel and
Stanley Engerman's "Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro
Slavery" (1974). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">In an interview with The SpokesmanReview (Oct. 22, 2007),
Wilson admitted "Confederate flags have adorned office and school walls at
times." At a 2005 picnic attended by members of Wilson's organizations,
the band Potato Head refused to entertain when they saw the Confederate flag
prominently displayed. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">Moscow's "intoleristas" proudly wear the name Wilson
has given them, and now we have big name allies all across the nation. WalMart,
Ebay, Sears, Target, Etsy and Amazon will no longer sell Confederate flags and
memorabilia. Although they have received last-minute rush orders, major flag
manufacturers will no longer produce a flag that divides people along racial
lines. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">Alabama's governor has ordered four Confederate flags be
removed from his state Capitol. A bill has been introduced in the Mississippi
legislature to excise the Rebel Flag that stands prominently in the upper
left corner of the state's flag. Unfortunately, South Carolina's legislators
will have to muster a two-thirds vote to bring down this symbol of hate and
bigotry that flies high over their Capitol. In stark contrast, the state flag
and Old Glory flutter at half-mast. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">In a 2007 essay "Take Down That Flag" in the Christ
Church journal Credenda Agenda, Douglas Jones, Wilson's former right-hand man,
argues the defeat of the Southern forces was obviously a sign of divine wrath.
Instead of repenting, neo-Confederates boast about "their proud legacy
and dwell on the sins of their accusers." Jones declares they should burn
their flag and wear the ashes as a sign of repentance. How many neo-Confederates
among us are ready to accept Jones' challenge? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif">Nick Gier taught philosophy and religion at the University of
Idaho for 31 years and is president of the Idaho Federation of Teachers.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif"> </span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div> <div style="height:auto;width:auto"> <div> <div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><div><span style="font-size:13.3333330154419px">A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. </span><br style="font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-size:13.3333330154419px">-Greek proverb</span></div><div><br>
“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance
from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not
in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it
without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your
own understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.<br>
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--Immanuel Kant<br>
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