“Do your schools support neo-Confederate and Christian nationalist views? Yes or No? MY SCHOOLS? I DON'T HAVE ANY SCHOOLS . . . . OKAY, OKAY. WE REPUDIATE ALL ICKY VIEWS. NEVER HEARD OF 'EM.”  Wilson ’s full caps in his reply to my questions, posted on Vision2020 on December 9, 2003 at http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2003-December/005891.html.

One of Wilson’s Moscow graduates is principal of Carey (NC) Christian School and he was forced to withdraw Wilson’s booklet Southern Slavery as it Was, whose co-author is a founding director of the neo-Confederate League of the South.  For more see www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/slavepage.htm.

DW: Though I am on the board of ACCS (Association of Classical and Christian Schools ) I am an ex officio member, meaning that I don't have a vote. There are about ten other members of the board who do vote. I have not been on any accreditation visits. Gier knows not whereof he speaks.

NG: John Calvin was not a citizen of Geneva and could not vote, but he was the absolute authority and all things moral and theological.  The Provost of the University of Idaho is an ex officio member of the Faculty Council and because of that Council members rarely ever vote against the administration.  Defending Wilson on this point, Dale Courtney states on his blog that these schools are not required to read or assign Wilson 's writings.  But the Cary Christian School Board must "have read, and be able to articulate the key concepts and principles of Recovering The Lost Tools of Learning by Douglas Wilson, Crossway Books."  I would like the e-mail addresses of all the other schools so that I can check to see if this is really the only Wilson school that makes this requirement. It's too bad that I can't trust Wilson if he says that it is.

8.  Not many CEC churches, even in the South, support neo-Confederate views, but one of Wilson ’s best friends Steve Wilkins is a founding director of the neo-Confederate League of the South (LOS).  The LOS has been declared a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the LOS is taking more control of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, who just elected Kirk Lyons to its national executive board.  An outspoken racist, Lyons was married by neo-Nazi Richard Butler in 1990, when Butler still had his compound in Hayden Lake . 

DW: Neo-Confederate, etc. But Gier has an interesting way to finally nail me on this one. One of my best friends is Steve Wilkins (true). Steve is a director of the League of the South (was true). The LOS has been infiltrating the Sons of Confederate Veterans (I dunno). The SCV just elected Kirk Lyons to its national executive board (did they?). Lyons is an outspoken racist and was married by Richard Butler of the Aryan Nation in 1990 (whoa). And Richard Butler was once involved in a love triangle with Kevin Bacon and Jennifer Lopez. Okay, I made up the last one.

NG:  Again Wilson does a clever dance around this one.  If Wilson is not a neo-Confederate, why is it that it is Lee's birthday, not Washington's or Lincoln's, that is celebrated in Logos School ?  Why is it that Lee portrait is proudly displayed in classrooms and the Confederate flag displayed at social functions?  Why is it that a conservative Presbyterian minister wrote to the Moscow Pullman Daily News that he saw a Confederate flag in Wilson 's office, along with other Civil War memorabilia?  And why is it that Wilson wrote an editorial for Credenda Agenda supporting the general idea of succession?