![]() Critics complained that Wilson's lack of action had eliminated the possibility of identifying other victims in the community. One church family with young children had boarded Sitler, and others welcomed him as a visitor in their homes (Sitler molested one 2-year-old girl in a similar visiting situation in Colville, Wash.). Although the newspaper quoted none of them, many people were angry that Wilson had failed to notify families in his Christ Church for eight months after Steven Sitler confessed to him in March 2005. This summer, the Moscow-Pullman Daily News published a story on "rumors" that Wilson, who controls an extreme-right religious empire in Moscow, and his New Saint Andrews College had tried to "cover up" serial sexual molestations by a college student - molestations of very young boys and girls carried out over several years. Wilson went on to say that his Moscow-based Canon Press was issuing a corrected version of the booklet - correct in its citations, that is, but maintaining unchanged its portrayal of happy and well-fed slaves whose relationship with their masters was described as one of "mutual confidence and affection." ![]() ![]() When a local professor revealed later in 2004 that Wilson's booklet contained 22 passages plagiarized from a discredited 1974 academic treatise, Wilson scoffed again, deriding the "local Banshees" who criticized him over what he portrayed as a mere citation problem. When hundreds of students, history professors, town officials and others decried the racism and sorry scholarship of his Southern Slavery, As It Was, Wilson mocked them all publicly, scoffing at what he called the "intoleristas." He continued with a tit-for-tat attack on the "racism" of Abraham Lincoln and Ted Kennedy. ![]() Doug Wilson, pastor of a radical church in Moscow, Idaho, and co-author of an infamous booklet describing antebellum slavery as an easygoing "life of plenty," has always seemed to project a persona of smug and self-satisfied arrogance. ![]()
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