I guess the Idaho Aryan Nation moved a little further south

This is just too much not to bring to your attention.

One of Cary Christian School's booklets that students are reading repaints Southern slavery in a more positive light. The principal says he's only exposing students to different ideas: the 'Southern perspective' versus the 'Nothern perspective'.

Let me present you with some excerpts from Southern Slavery: As It Was:

* "Slavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with pervasive racial animosity. Because of its dominantly patriarchal character, it was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence." (page 24)

* "Slave life was to them a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes, and good medical care." (page 25)

* "But many Southern blacks supported the South because of long established bonds of affection and trust that had been forged over generations with their white masters and friends." (page 27)

* "Nearly every slave in the South enjoyed a higher standard of living than the poor whites of the South -- and had a much easier existence." (page 30)

School defends slavery booklet

The authors of Southern Slavery: As It Was? None other than Idaho's own Douglas Wilson, a 'pastor' in Moscow, Idaho. Want to hear some other choice opinions of his?

The world as Wilson sees it is divided not by race but by religion — biblical Christians versus all others. As he says in one of his books, "[I]f neither parent believes in Jesus Christ, then the children are foul — unclean."

"Government schools" are godless propaganda factories teaching secularism, rationalism, and worse. Wilson's congregants are instructed to send their children to private Christian schools (like the one he started) or to home-school them.

Woman "was created to be dependent and responsive to a man," Wilson writes. Feminists seek "to rob women of their beauty in submission." Women should only be allowed to date or "court" with their father's permission — and then, if they are Christian, only with other Christians.

If a woman is raped, the rapist should pay the father a bride price and then, if the father approves, marry his victim.

Homosexuals, Wilson says, are "sodomites," "people with foul sexual habits." But the biblical punishment for homosexuality is not necessarily death, Wilson says in trying to distance himself from Reconstruction. Exile is another possibility.

Cursing one's parents is "deserving of punishment by death," Wilson adds. "Parental failure is not a defense." And Christian parents, by the way, "need not be afraid to lay it on" when spanking, he says.

Indeed, "godly discipline" would include spanking 2-year-old children for such "sins" as whining. (On a similar note, Dabney called opposition to whipping wrongdoing slaves "Godless humanitarianism.")

Taliban on the Palouse?

Of course, even in South Carolina, look who's been elected to the state board of education panel:

Neo-Confederate name to state education board

After reading all that, how about a nice look at a couple of sites devoted to fighting against hate and intolerance? Arm yourselves now with knowledge and the courage to stand by your convictions. It's going to be a bumpy ride.

Tolerance.org and the Southern Poverty Law Center