<div dir="ltr"><div>I might misunderstand, but from what I read, this Tennessee State Senate Bill that would have added the Association of Classical and Christian <em><strong><font color="#6a6a6a">Schools</font></strong></em> (ACCS) to a list of <em><strong><font color="#6a6a6a">accreditation</font></strong></em> bodies, would only apply to schools in Tennessee?</div><div><br></div><div>Of course, I wondered how many schools located where are accredited by the ACCS.</div><div><br></div><div>According to their website ( <a href="http://www.accsedu.org/members__by_state/accredited_members">http://www.accsedu.org/members__by_state/accredited_members</a> ), below is a list of schools, one close by in Spokane, Washington, and even one in Memphis, Tennessee.  </div><div><br></div><div>What difference would Tennessee state recognition, or the lack thereof, of the ACCS make if ACCS accredits schools in Tennessee anyway?</div><div><br></div><div>What regulatory power would the state of Tennessee have over an ACCS school that would be added by the fact that the state does not list the ACCS as an accreditation body?  </div><div><br></div><div>So what if Tennessee does not recognize the ACCS?  They accredit the schools anyways!</div><div><br></div><div>This news story from Americans United for Separation of Church and State discusses the possibility of "voucher plans" that Tennessee ACCS recognition might allow, or have allowed:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/way-down-in-dixie-tenn-lawmaker-proposes-state-recognition-for-schools-with">https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/way-down-in-dixie-tenn-lawmaker-proposes-state-recognition-for-schools-with</a></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"><font color="#000080">As reported by <em>Nashville Scene</em></font><font color="#000080">,</font></a> S.B.  1792 would have added ACCS to a list of accreditation bodies recognized by the state. This by itself would not have necessarily entitled ACCS-affiliated schools to public funding, but state legislators are currently debating a voucher bill that would have altered the situation</div><div>---------------------------------------</div><div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<br></div><div><br></div><div><table style="width:885px;height:384px;text-align:left;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="3"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Ad Fontes Academy</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.adfontes.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">Centreville, VA</font></a></span><br><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: May 2002 </span></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Annapolis Christian Academy</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.aca-cc.org/" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">Corpus Christi, TX</font></a></span><br><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since May 2009 </span></td><td valign="top"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Bayshore Christian School</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.bayshorechristian.org/" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">Fairhope, AL</font></a></span><br><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since October 2015 </span></td><td valign="top"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold"><em><strong>Bloomfield Christian School</strong></em><br></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a href="http://www.bloomfieldchristian.com/"><font color="#000080">Bloomfield Hills, MI</font></a></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold"><br>Accredited since: April 2013</span></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><em><strong>Cair Paravel Latin School</strong></em><br><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.cpls.org/" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">Topeka, KS</font></a><br>Accredited since October 2014 </span></td><td valign="top"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><em><strong>Cary Christian School</strong></em><br><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.carychristianschool.org/" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">Cary, NC</font></a><br>Accredited since May 2002 </span></td><td valign="top"><em><strong>Cedar Tree Classical Christian School</strong></em><br><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.cedartreeschool.org/"><font color="#000080">Vancouver, WA</font></a><br>Accredited since: November 2012</td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><em><strong>Covenant Christian Academy</strong></em><br><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.covenantchristian.net/"><font color="#000080">Colleyville, TX</font></a><br>Accredited since: April 2016</td><td valign="top"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Evangel Classical Christian School</span><br><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://evangelclassical.org/wordpress/" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">Alabaster, AL</font></a><br><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: February 2010</span></td><td valign="top"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Faith Christian Academy </span><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic">(Conservatory)</span><br><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.fcaclassical.org/" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">Kansas City, MO</font></a><br><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: April 2016</span></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Geneva Classical Academy</span><br><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://genevaclassicalacademy.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">Lakeland, FL</font></a><br><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: September 2015</span></td><td valign="top"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Grace Academy of Georgetown</span><br><a href="http://www.gracetx.org/"><font color="#000080">Georgetown, TX</font></a><br><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: November 2014</span></td><td valign="top"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Hickory Christian Academy</span><br><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.hickorychristianacademy.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">Hickory, NC</font></a><br><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: January 2015</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Logos School</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.logosschool.com/"><font color="#000080">Moscow, ID</font></a></span><br><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: January 2000</span></td><td><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Mars Hill Academy</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.marshill.edu/"><font color="#000080">Mason, OH</font></a></span><br><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: October 2005</span></td><td><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Petra Academy</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.petraacademy.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(1,93,133)">Bozeman, MT</span></a></span><br><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: June 2010</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Providence Classical School</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.pcsclassical.org/"><font color="#000080">Spring, TX</font></a></span><br><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: April 2006</span></td><td><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Providence Classical Christian School</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.pccs.org/"><font color="#000080">Kirkland, WA</font></a></span><br><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: June 2004</span></td><td><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Regent Preparatory School of Oklahoma</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.rpsok.org/" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">Tulsa, OK</font></a></span><br><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: November, 2011</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Regents School of Austin</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.regentsschool.com/"><font color="#000080">Austin, TX</font></a></span><br><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: April 2000</span></td><td><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Regents School of Oxford</span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.regentsofoxford.org/"><font color="#000080">Oxford, MS</font></a></span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: October 2013</span></td><td><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Riverbend Academy</span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.riverbendacademy.org/"><font color="#000080">Ormond Beach, FL</font></a></span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: September 2009</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Rockbridge Academy</span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.rockbridge.org/"><font color="#000080">Millersville, MD</font></a></span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: October 2003</span></td><td><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Schaeffer Academy</span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.schaefferacademy.org/"><font color="#000080">Rochester, MN</font></a></span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: June 2006</span></td><td><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">St. Stephen's Academy</span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><a href="http://ststephensacademy.com/"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><font color="#000080">Beaverton, OR</font></span></a><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: February 2012</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Tall Oaks Classical School</span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.talloaksde.org/" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">New Castle, DE</font></a></span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since:  April 2009</span></td><td><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">The Ambrose School</span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.theambroseschool.org/"><font color="#000080">Meridian, ID</font></a></span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: May 2006</span></td><td><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">The Oaks: A Classical Christian Academy</span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.theoakscca.org/"><font color="#000080">Spokane, WA</font></a></span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: January 2007</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">The Paideia School of Tampa Bay</span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><a href="http://paideiatampa.com/"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><font color="#000080">Tampa, FL</font></span></a><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: March 2013</span></td><td><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Trinitas Christian School</span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" style="color:rgb(1,93,133)" href="http://trinitaschristian.org/default.aspx" target="_blank">Pensacola, FL</a></span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: May 2010</span></td><td><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Trinity Christian School</span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.tcsopelika.org/"><font color="#000080">Opelika, AL</font></a></span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: Nov. 2012</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Veritas Academy</span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.veritasacademy.com/"><font color="#000080">Leola, PA</font></a></span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: December 2002</span></td><td><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Veritas Christian Community School</span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" style="color:rgb(1,93,133);font-size:100%" href="http://www.veritasccs.com/">Sierra Vista, AZ</a></span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: February 2012</span></td><td><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Veritas School</span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.veritasschool.net/"><span style="color:rgb(1,93,133)">Newberg, OR</span></a></span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: October 2007</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Veritas School</span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" href="http://www.veritasschool.com/"><font color="#000080">Richmond, VA</font></a></span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: January 2013</span></td><td><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Westminster Academy</span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" style="line-height:1.5;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px" href="http://www.wamemphis.com/"><font color="#000080">Memphis, TN</font></a></span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: April 2002</span></td><td><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Whitefield Academy</span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a class="ews_cb_href_properties" style="line-height:1.5;font-size:14px" href="http://www.whitefieldacademy.org/"><font color="#000080">Kansas City, MO</font></a></span><br style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%">Accredited since: February 2013</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p> <br></p></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Moscow Cares <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:moscowcares@moscow.com" target="_blank">moscowcares@moscow.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div>Courtesy of the Southern Poverty Law Center at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2016/schools-association-rejected-after-founder’s-past-surfaces" target="_blank">https://www.splcenter.org/<wbr>fighting-hate/intelligence-<wbr>report/2016/schools-<wbr>association-rejected-after-<wbr>founder’s-past-surfaces</a></div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------<wbr>---</div><div><h1 style="margin:0px;padding:3rem 1em 0.5em;text-align:center;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-transform:uppercase;line-height:1.2;font-family:"Knockout 28 A","Knockout 28 B",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:64px;font-weight:normal;border-bottom-color:rgb(236,236,236);border-bottom-width:4px;border-bottom-style:solid">SCHOOL'S ASSOCIATION REJECTED AFTER FOUNDER’S PAST SURFACES</h1><p style="margin:0px 0px 2em;line-height:2"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Knockout 31 A","Knockout 31 B",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:36px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Thirteen years ago, an evangelical minister in Idaho who was about to headline a “history” conference at the University of Idaho at Moscow ran head-on into a massive political firestorm. The cause was a book pastor Douglas Wilson had co-authored that offered up an unusual take on antebellum American slavery.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 2em;line-height:2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Thirteen years ago, an evangelical minister in Idaho who was about to headline a “history” conference at the University of Idaho at Moscow ran head-on into a massive political firestorm. The cause was a book pastor Douglas Wilson had co-authored that offered up an unusual take on antebellum American slavery.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 2em;line-height:2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Slavery as it existed in the South … was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence,” according to <i>Southern Slavery, As It Was</i>. “There has never been a multiracial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world.” And there was this: “Slavery was to them [slaves] a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes and good medical care.”</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 2em;line-height:2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">An uproar ensued, with the presidents of two local universities, numerous editorials, scores of letters to the editor, participants in several rallies and any number of other sources condemning Wilson’s sorry scholarship. Historians pilloried Wilson for a rose-colored version of slavery as it never was.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 2em;line-height:2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Earlier this year, Wilson, in a form, was back.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 2em;line-height:2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">In February, the Tennessee state Senate considered a Republican bill that would have allowed church schools to be accredited by the Association of Classical and Christian Schools — started by Wilson years before to accredit such schools as his own Logos school in Moscow. The association’s site still carries Wilson essays like “Nurturing Masculinity,” and includes in its recommended readings an essay by R.L. Dabney, a Confederate chaplain who once described black people as a “morally inferior race,” a “sordid, alien taint” marked by “lying, theft, drunkenness.”</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 2em;line-height:2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Wilson has also called for the execution of adulterers, said LGBT people should be exiled, argued that a rapist should be able to pay his victim’s father in order to make her his bride, and said women are made to depend on men. He no longer has an official position with the association, but Raw Story reported that he was to give the group’s annual conference plenary speech earlier this year.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 2em;line-height:2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">In the end, Wilson’s comments came to public attention, and the bill offered by state Sen. Brian Kelsey (R-Germantown) went down to defeat. Apparently, Wilson’s views were too much even for conservative lawmakers.</span></p></div><div>------------------------------<wbr>---<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 style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" target="_blank"><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><div>"When people sin, everybody has to pay."</div><div> </div><div>- Doug Wilson (June 7, 2002)</div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><br>==============================<wbr>=========================<br>
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