Tagged “students”

[Vision2020] Status Hearing Steven Sitler

Moscow Vision 2020

This morning I sat in a nearly empty courtroom and listened to arguments regarding the June 11th marriage of Steven Sitler and Katie Travis. The Department of Corrections unambiguously stated that they did not support this marriage. . . .

Intelligence Report: Idaho Pastor a Hard-Liner, With an Exception or Two

Southern Poverty Law Center

Doug Wilson is no normal pastor. He is a biblical hard-liner, a man who in numerous books and speeches is quick to advocate the most draconian punishments of the Old Testament for all kinds of offenses, some quite minor. And that applies to the Sitler case directly, judging from what Wilson wrote in his 1999 book Fidelity: “When we are dealing with young children who are abused by adults (pederasty, child porn, etc.), the penalty for those guilty of the crime should be death.” Except . . .

New West: “Two Child Molestation Scandals Break Over Moscow’s Christ Church”

New West

For 18 months, a serial child molester named Steven James Sitler called Moscow home. He boarded with a Christ Church family. He attended Doug Wilson’s New St. Andrews College. How did the community and members of Christ Church learn of Steven Sitler’s crimes? On a local blog and, later, on an Internet community chat group. What’s wrong with this picture? Everything. . . .

Moscow-Pullman Daily News: Christian college defends actions amid rumors

Moscow-Pullman Daily News

Accusations that New Saint Andrews College kept knowledge of a sex offender and his activities under wraps has put college officials on the defensive. . . .

Lewiston Morning Tribune: Church officials say rumors about sex offender are ‘ludicrous’

Lewiston Morning Tribune

Christ Church Pastor Douglas Wilson and Roy Atwood, president of New Saint Andrews College, Tuesday denied rumors a sex offender was harbored by the church and his crimes hushed up. . . .

[Vision2020] Divisivness Must Stop (2)

Moscow Vision 2020

If those who consider the term “government schools” to be divisive would step back from their posture of taking offense for a moment, they might realize that the term “government,” whether used divisively or not, is the descriptor that most accurately reflects the nature of the thing being discussed. . . .