RawStory: “GOP bill would allow group founded by anti-gay slavery defender to accredit Tennessee schools”

The Tennessee state Senate on Monday was scheduled to consider a GOP-sponsored bill that would allow church schools to be accredited by a Christian organization founded by Douglas Wilson — an evangelical theologian who has defended the institution of slavery, called for the execution of adulterers and has said LGBT people should be exiled.

The Nashville Scene reported that state Sen. Brian Kelsey (R) had sponsored SB1792 to add Wilson’s Association of Classical and Christian Schools to the list of accreditation organizations for church-related schools.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Wilson is the author of the book Southern Slavery, As It Was.

“Slavery as it existed in the South . . . was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence,” a passage from the book reads. “There has never been a multiracial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world.”. . .

Wilson has cautioned against interracial marriages of “extremely diverse cultural backgrounds” even though he agrees that the Bible does not forbid it. And he has suggested that exile could be a better solution than the death penalty for dealing with homosexuality.

“There are circumstances where I’d be in favor of execution for adultery,” Wilson reportedly told one Christian publication.

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  1. There are many sad, troubling aspects to this. One being that so many perfectly fine, non-Wilsonistas living in Moscow (the vast majority) continue to perceive “Pastor” Wilson as an odd, “perhaps” even crackpot Moscow “Pastor”, and believe him to be, although one who espouses a strange, head shaking worldview, an ultimately benign, harmless presence in our town. What they fail to realize is that with every negative spotlight cast on “Pastor” Wilson, the national perception will be that this extremely extreme pseudo Pastor, and his litany of incredibly offensive, bigoted, hateful, disgusting statements and actions, represents Moscow itself. And that hurts, because this creature does not, has not, and never will reflect the community standards of my hometown.

  2. “”Wilson has cautioned against interracial marriages of “extremely diverse cultural backgrounds”…”

    But marriages between his followers and convicted child molesters? No caution there. He says he’d proudly do it again in a heartbeat — and pray for many babies, too. He would never dissuade anyone from a lawful marriage. His elders will gladly play matchmaker in that case, but they frown upon marriages between the races, regardless of how well slavery contributed to the greatest intimacy and harmony between the races the world has ever known.

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