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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p><strong><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>CANON PRESS STATEMENT:</span></strong><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Canon Press has investigated the charges of plagiarism and improper citation in </span><em><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>A Justice Primer</span></em><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>, and it is abundantly clear that the editor and co-author, Randy Booth, plagiarized material</span><em><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span></em><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>in multiple instances from a number of different sources. Such negligence and editorial incompetence is a gross breach of contract and obviously does not meet Canon Press’s publishing standards. As such, we have discontinued the book, effective immediately. Refer to the author statements below for more information. We would like to specifically thank Rachel Miller for bringing this to our attention so we could take the necessary steps to immediately correct such a serious error.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>RANDY BOOTH STATEMENT:</span></strong><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>“This is a mea culpa for the citation omissions in </span><em><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>A Justice Primer</span></em><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>. A few years ago I approached Doug Wilson about a combined effort to produce a book on justice. He had begun to write some on the subject as had I. The idea was to blend the writing, and I was in charge of accomplishing this. As best I can tell, all the problems are mine and not Doug’s. As a pastor I was drawing on a wide range of materials and notes that I had collected over a number of years to use in sermons or lessons with no intention of publishing that material, thus citations were often missing in my old notes. Concerning the ‘definitions,’ I didn’t see the need to cite those sources. I have also been a student of Dr. Greg Bahnsen for over twenty-five years, and undoubtedly some of his material has found its way into sermons and Bible studies over the years, which were cut-and-pasted as I prepared for this book. Regarding the material taken from Paul Rose (2003) and Wayne Blank, I freely acknowledge that I originally collected their material but did not have it cited in my notes from years ago. This is a serious mistake on my part (not differentiating my own material from others in my research and study). While this was not intentional plagiarism on my part, nevertheless I clearly did use their words without proper citation and for this I publicly confess.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> [These comments from Randy Booth are almost identical to the excuses offered by Steve Wilkins, a co-author of Southern Slavery As It Was, who shared with Doug Wilson the ignominious disgrace of twenty-two examples of plagiarism in SAIW. Can you imagine any setting other than a corrupt church and corrupt ministry that dares to trot out the same excuse twice that “sources were mixed up over the years” and that somehow Randy Booth – not the sharpest pencil in the drawer at the best of times - was delusional to the point that he believed he had written this crap himself. The half assed apology from all three of the voices is not enough. Canon needs to return the money collected from selling this tainted book to the unwitting saps who purchased it; Randy Booth should be placed on a leave of absence from the pulpit and certainly should step down from his permanent chair on the Board of New Saint Andrews College; Doug Wilson should make a public apology for associating with and supporting bumblefarts who commit this egregious error in judgment. Now on to the finger pointing master himself.]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>DOUGLAS WILSON STATEMENT: </span></strong><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>“I was disappointed to find out today that there are serious citation problems in </span><em><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>A Justice Primer</span></em><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>. In light of this, I am completely supportive of Canon Press withdrawing the book from circulation. For further details on what happened and how, I would refer you to the statements by Canon Press and Randy Booth.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Rose Huskey<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>