<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Courtesy of the <i>Nashville Scene</i> at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2016/02/22/should-we-let-this-kook-sanction-tennessees-church-schools">http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2016/02/22/should-we-let-this-kook-sanction-tennessees-church-schools</a></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><h3 class="postTitle" id="a6415194" style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Slavery Defender's Group Will Accredit Schools Under State Senate Bill</h3></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The state Senate is thinking about adding a group started by a defender of slavery to the list of recognized accreditation organizations for church-related schools.<br><br><a href="http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB1792&GA=109" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">SB1792 </a>by Sen. Brian Kelsey, R-Germantown, adds the Association of Classical and Christian Schools. It was founded by a charming guy named <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2004/doug-wilson%E2%80%99s-religious-empire-expanding-northwest" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Douglas Wilson, pastor of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho.</a> He believes in exiling gay people and executing adulterers and thinks slaves had it made in the shade in the South. And that's only scratching the surface of his repulsive views. You might say he’s on the fringe of the lunatic fringe.<br><br>He remains an ex officio member of the association's board of directors, and he’s giving the plenary talk at the association’s conference this year.<br> <br>According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Wilson has written that slavery in the South was a "life of plenty.” In a booklet titled Southern Slavery, As it Was, he wrote: “Slavery as it existed in the South … was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence. … There has never been a multiracial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world.”<br> <br>He told <i>Christianity Today</i> that he supports “exile [of] some homosexuals, depending on the circumstances and the age of the victim.” He added, “There are circumstances where I’d be in favor of execution for adultery.” Cursing one’s parents is likewise “deserving of punishment by death.”<br><br>More on Wilson: He has said a rapist should be able to make his victim his bride by paying her father. Woman “was created to be dependent and responsive to a man,” Wilson wrote, adding that feminists “rob women of their beauty in submission.”<br><br><b>Update:</b> When the bill came up in the Senate this afternoon, Sen. Jeff Yarbro, D-Nashville, asked Kelsey if he knew the association's founder thinks slavery was a wonderful thing. Kelsey obviously was taken aback and, after fumbling with the papers in his hands for a little bit, he said: "I’m not sure of the actual person." We guess he didn't have time to do a little Internet searching on this association before bringing his bill. After a couple of lame attempts to defend his bill, Kelsey postponed the vote.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Watch Wilson try to defend his views on slavery:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://youtu.be/8y0fTaMBESs">http://youtu.be/8y0fTaMBESs</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div></div></body></html>