Sons of Confederate Veterans going down the drain of madness. Make Dixie Great Again website.

Some time ago in a blog posting on former Sons of Confederate Veterans Commander-in-Chief Ron Wilson going to jail for running a ponzi scheme I made the following observation:

Along with some other things I have observed, which I am not going to go into here, I wonder if the SCV hasn't reached a certain stage in its history. 

This would be a stage in which normal people tend to avoid the SCV and the SCV instead more and more attracts persons who are extremists or mentally a little off or both. As the SCV becomes more explicit in its agenda SCV members who are Confederate enthusiasts but not wanting to secede or support the neo-Confederate agenda feel uncomfortable belonging, but this more explicit agenda tends to at the same time attract more extremist elements. This further shifts the SCV to a more extremist agenda and the process repeats. Perhaps this process is already underway in the SCV. 

Also, the SCV has a fair quantity of assets in terms of money and real estate. Some scammer might even now be planning to be Commander-in-Chief to get at the assets of the SCV.

Again this is a speculative thought. However, if you organized a flat earth society what type of members do you think you would attract?

https://newtknight.blogspot.com/2014/12/convicted-former-sons-of-confederate.html#.XDoB-Vw2qiM

I don't think that the idea that the SCV is going down the well of madness is that speculative anymore. The Sons of Confederate Veterans has appointed as the head of its Heritage defense Walter Donald Kennedy.

They have also started this website titled "Make Dixie Great Again."

https://www.makedixiegreatagain.com/

Nothing like mimicking Donald Trump to alienate young people. If I had to dream up a website name to help bring down the Confederacy I couldn't do better than this.

Before I discuss this further, I want to say that I couldn't be more delighted that Walter Donald Kennedy was selected to head up this effort. I couldn't ask for anything better to help bring down the Confederacy.

So who is Walter Donald Kennedy? These are the bios of the neo-Confederate Kennedy twins.

http://kennedytwins.com/bio.htm

These are their books. http://kennedytwins.com/books.htm

There is this book defending slavery and attacking the Southern Baptist Conference for apologizing for slavery.

This book sees some type of communist conspiracy during the Civil War. It is for sale by the SCV. https://scv-online-store.myshopify.com/products/books-myths-of-american-slavery-213

It has been republished with a new cover.  They offered it for sale on their website.

A lot of books seem to have disappeared from their website after I started reporting on the contents. It might be they are getting out of the book business and are selling out their inventory.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170402004358/https://scv-online-store.myshopify.com/products/books-lincolns-marxists-997

Walter Donald Kennedy has in the Confederate Veteran, official publication of the SCV, Nov./Dec. 2012, an article where Lincoln and Hitler are somehow connected. The title is "Lincoln's Band of Tyrants."

The Kennedy  twins have the perfect biographical background to bring down the Confederacy. Michael Hill, president of the League of the South, did a biographical article on them for Chronicles Magazine. They "Rolled with Ross." This doesn't mean much to modern readers, but this means they were part of a campaign in which the objective was to defect civil rights.

It might be asked by the Sons of Confederate Veterans would select such a person to be their front person in defending the Confederacy and monument to them.  You would think they would select someone without such a background who would mumble vague statements relying heavily on the words "heritage" "preservation" "political correctness" etc.

They actually believe that the public will accept their undrerstanding of history if they just have the opportunity to bring their message to the public.  They believe that the public will believe and support their understanding of history, but don't because of the media and others who have misled them. In short they are inside their delusions.

Southern Baptist Convention President joins 170 Memphis clergy asking asking to remove Confederate statue.

This is revolutionary.

This is the article online at Baptist News Global.

https://baptistnews.com/article/sbc-president-cbf-pastors-join-call-remove-confederate-statue/#.WcD0VsiGOiM

Steve Gaines, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) joined in with 170 local clergy in asking that a Confederate monument, Confederate General Nathan B. Forrest to be removed from its present location. About 100 leaders of other congregations and religious institutions were also signers.

The letter is here.

https://medium.com/@MayorMemphis/clergyletter-b1e5ae3513aa


The Southern Baptist Conference has steadily marched away from the Lost Cause interpretation of history. They have done very well, whereas the liberal mainstream denominations have been poor on this. The Episcopal Church has moved fairly well away from the Lost Cause also, but there have been no pronouncements from their national leadership.

The SBC is sending a very important message to other evangelical groups.

In 2016 the SBC adopted a resolution on the Confederate Battle Flag.

https://erlc.com/resource-library/articles/resolution-7-on-sensitivity-and-unity-regarding-the-confederate-battle-flag

In the early 1990s they had an apology for slavery.

This is an earlier blog on the topic and the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) denunciation of them.

http://newtknight.blogspot.com/2016/06/sons-of-confederate-veterans-launch.html#.WcD-rMiGOiM

The center of the Christian faith is moving to out of the Western world. The SBC realizes this.

The mainstream liberal denominations on the other hand haven't come to grasp with the issues of the Confederacy. They have their vanities about being so good on race. This web page is available for further reading. http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/churches-of-the-confederacy.html


The actions of these 170 clergy, black and white, has a seismic impact on the landscape for Confederate monuments. The fact that the Baptist News Global has sent this out will be an inspiration for other churches elsewhere to take a stand and an influence on others not to support Confederate monuments.

We wake up this morning with the politics of this issue revolutionized.

Sons of Confederate Veterans launch counter attack against the Southern Baptist Church: UPDATE, UPDATE 2

I have been writing the leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention ever since I found out that the Ashley River Baptist church hosted the Sons of Confederate Veterans event at their 2014 national convention.

http://newtknight.blogspot.com/2014/11/wrote-president-of-southern-baptist.html#.V2bTnbgrKiM

I wrote the leader of the Southern Baptists in Dallas.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154772192254829&set=a.10152829468284829.1073741826.675344828&type=3&theater

At this page you can read the correspondence with Ronnie Floyd which I copied with the entire Executive Board of the denomination and with leaders of African American Baptist denominations.

http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/southern-baptist-convention.html

I also wrote the leadership of the Texas SBC. I don't have that online.

The general campaign against hosting neo-Confederate groups is online at http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/churches-of-the-confederacy.html.

I can't say definitely that I had an impact. I think that the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is trying to move into a future in which Christianity is global and is not centered in the Western world. The SBC can't compel member churches to not host Confederate groups, but they can send a message that will discourage it. I think with my correspondence they had to reflect that sooner or later their hosting of neo-Confederate groups would become news in the United States and then globally. Elsewhere they are competing against other Christian denominations and with other religions. Imagine what their credibility would be in Asian, Africa, Latin America, and in urban minority communities in the Western world if it got out that they were hosting neo-Confederate groups and they had been written about it and they persisted anyways.

With this resolution they have plausible deniability. If some SBC church still hosts a neo-Confederate event, they can start arguing blah blah blah about their organizational structure. I think though that with their resolution any minister would have to realize that some parishioners might raise objections and that also it could lead to real conflict in their church. Regardless of their feelings they will decide that it is a conflict they don't need.

Additionally, either the SBC is hosting neo-Confederate events or they are not, as Christians say, "By ye fruits you will know them." Something like that anyways. I will certainly  make any hosting by any church known, and each time a SBC church hosts the neo-Confederates it will be bad publicity. So I think individual SBC churches are not going to want to have any involvements with neo-Confederate groups.

The great thing about this resolution is that it puts other denominations to shame. The United Methodist Church (UMC) with all their hosting of the United Daughters of the Confederacy despite being told what the UDC was about really appear to be total fakes about the issue of  racism. I am sure liberal UMC members will come up with excuses and rationalizations but if they do, they will just discredit themselves. Members of other denominations will ask their leadership how come the SBC is ahead of them on this issue. How lame does Bishop McKee's email reply to me seem now!

I am currently writing a book on the neo-Confederate movement orientated towards a popular audience. I am planning on then starting pod castings. Since I am tied up I haven't been able to push the church issue much lately, but I do plan on including in the book the issue in the chapter on enablers.

As I blogged earlier the resolution against displaying the Confederate flag is weak, but it does have a huge symbolic importance. http://newtknight.blogspot.com/2016/06/southern-baptists-full-of-stuff-and.html#.V2bTcLgrKiM

The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) Commander-in-Chief Kelly Barrow has responded.

https://www.facebook.com/Sons-of-Confederate-Veterans-Official-149308815083112/

Barrow's response doesn't include an apology for the neo-Confederate attacks on the SBC made by neo-Confederates and their books they have promoted. I made sure the SBC knew how the neo-Confederates were bashing them. I made sure the SBC knew the attack on them by Walter Kennedy in the book "Myths of American Slavery."

Barrow's response is clueless. It doesn't address the issue of the SBC reaching out to a multiracial world. Neo-Confederate have delusions about the Confederacy such that might think it would be somehow acceptable to be a Confederate identified church and still be able to reach out to a multiracial world.

I am sure the SBC is cringing that Barrow is releasing this information to the public.

Untold numbers of these SBC churches, over the years, have cultivated great relationships with SCV camps by opening their facilities for regular meetings and special occasions, not to mention the cemeteries owned by SBC churches where the remains of legions of Confederate heroes lie -- these are sites for numerous memorial services.

I don't think the SBC wants it broadcast that their member churches are in collusion with neo-Confederate groups.

Members of other denomination are going to be asking their leadership why they don't have such a resolution against the Confederate flag and they will like to think that their resolution would surely be more anti-Confederate than the SBC's.  Parishioners will ask why are they hosting a neo-Confederate group.

The SCV does have a church that is scheduled to host one of their events in Dallas during their 2016 convention. The online website for the convention doesn't mention it, but they are scheduling to have an event at a local church. Hopefully that church will re-consider. The church that is hosting the SCV event has to consider that even if they are keeping it secret it might leak out later and then they have not only hosted the event by they have conspired to hold the event.

The neo-Confederates are trying to push the Confederate battle flag as a Christian symbol.

https://confederateshop.com/shop/confederate-flags-matter-the-christian-influence-on-the-flags/

This is the SBC resolution if you missed it:

http://erlc.com/resource-library/articles/resolution-7-on-sensitivity-and-unity-regarding-the-confederate-battle-flag

Information on the Sons of Confederate Veterans regarding race.

http://www.blackcommentator.com/526/526_confederacy_sebesta_guest_share.html

UPDATE:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1207020905977838&id=147175811962358


Barrow is calling for the members to "stand down" because they are going to work behind the scenes with SBC members in the denomination. I think this will be hard to do for many of their members.

I am not so sure Barrow can control the SCV membership. One thing it is going to be fairly apparent soon that working behind the scenes isn't going to happen. The SBC when they voted on this resolution surely knew there would be disgruntled members.

The SBC just can't afford to be associated with the Confederacy. They are in competition with other denominations and with African American denominations and other denominations and religions globally. If they are seen to cave into the SCV they will really really lose credibility with everyone except a fading remnant of angry men.


UPDATE2:

At the Southern Baptist Convention a John Killian spoke out against the resolution against the Confederate battle flag.

https://baptistnews.com/article/southern-baptists-renounce-confederate-flag/

Perhaps because he is involved with the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

http://aladivscv.com/April%202016%20Alabama%20Confederate.pdf

SOUTHERN BAPTISTS FULL OF STUFF AND NONSENSE

About the Southern Baptist Resolution, less than it seems

First it is just about the Confederate battle flag. You can fly any number of Confederate flags what don't have the infamous Confederate battle flag pattern.

Also, it doesn't reject the Confederacy. It also doesn't say that the Confederate Battle flag is racist, just that some consider it so.

To quote the resolution:


"WHEREAS, We recognize that the Confederate battle flag is used by some and perceived by many as a symbol of hatred, bigotry, and racism, offending millions of people; and"

Really, it "is used by some and perceived by many as a symbol of hatred, bigotry, and racism, offending millions of people"

The resolution doesn't say it is a symbol of racism, just that others perceive it as such.

Also, it is paternalism. We are concerned about the feelings of African Americans, not the that it might poison white people.

Finally, it isn't a rejection of the Confederacy itself.

It is a stuff and nonsense resolution.The Sons of Confederate Veterans will be outraged, but it is because they want everything and all things to be entirely for the Confederacy.

This is a measure so that the Southern Baptists don't have to face the issues regarding the Confederacy. I suspect that they will continue to host neo-Confederate groups.

http://erlc.com/resource-library/articles/resolution-7-on-sensitivity-and-unity-regarding-the-confederate-battle-flag

Southern Baptist Church condemns Confederate flag, maybe United Methodist Church will get a clue

The Southern Baptist Convention has passed a resolution condemning the Confederate battle flag.

An article announcing the passage of a resolution condemning the Confederate battle flag.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/06/15/southern-baptist-convention-votes-to-condemn-confederate-battle-flag/

A background article on the Southern Baptists considering it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/06/14/at-a-historic-meeting-southern-baptists-may-consider-opposing-confederate-flag/


This resolution doesn't preclude them hosting neo-Confederate groups and they might use the resolution as a cover to continue hosting neo-Confederate groups.

Hopefully the United Methodist Church will get a clue and stop being clueless. The UMC likes to think they are all the lastest thing on racism and Christianity with fine sounding phrases, but they accommodate neo-Confederates and can't face the issue of the Confederacy.

I do think this is a huge blow against the neo-Confederates in terms of discrediting the Confederate battle flag. Many Southern Baptists will consider not flying it. It will make persons in the South who continue to fly the Confederate battle flag seem aberrant which will result in others not flying the Confederate flag. Now if you want to fly the Confederate flag you will be really fringe.

It will also surface the racial attitudes of some reactionaries who insist on flying the Confederates flag.

It will also challenge persons who are still into the Confederacy but think they are liberal or something or the progressive cutting edge. They will have to realize that they are just full of nonsense and rationalizations.

It will help me get churches to stop hosting.

This is the draft press release which goes out this coming weekend to media, social justice groups, etc. I will be printing it out in the morning and editing

Which Church is Hosting the

Sons of Confederate Veterans in 2016?

The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) is having their 2016 national convention in Richardson, TX on July 13-17, 2016 http://www.scv2016.org/. Unlike past practice, but as in 2014 the SCV is going into stealth mode and is not announcing at which church their memorial service will be.

A campaign is underway to convince churches in the Dallas, Texas area not to host or lend their facilities to the SCV. A reasonable person would see that it is a racist and extremist organization by any reasonable standard which is documented at http://www.blackcommentator.com/526/526_confederacy_sebesta_guest_share.html. The campaign to get churches not to host neo-Confederate groups is documented at http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/churches-of-the-confederacy.html and the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/events/412080045663443/.

However certain denominations have past records of hosting neo-Confederate groups.

SOUTHERN BAPTISTS: They hosted the 2014 SCV national convention. It is documented online here. http://www.timesexaminer.com/historical/1914-2014-national-reunion-of-sons-of-confederate-veterans. A letter was written to the president of the Southern Baptists and copied to all 60 plus board members. http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/southern-baptist-convention.html. There was no reply.  A letter was recently sent to the head of the Southern Baptists in Texas and all the board members and hopefully there will some response. Correspondence online at http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/richardson-texas-2016.html.

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: Historically they have frequently hosted SCV events.  (See enclosed Bar Graph.) In 2014 the former Bishop of Dallas was written but there was no reply. A letter was recently sent to Bishop Ferrell and hopefully there will be a reply. Correspondence online at http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/richardson-texas-2016.html.

EPISCOPAL CHURCH: Historically they have frequently hosted SCV events (See enclosed Bar Graph). In 2014 the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas was written and the reply was that he didn’t know of any church hosting the SCV, but he didn’t say that a church wouldn’t. Bill Murchison, contributor to Southern Partisan and former board member of the Texas League of the South is influential in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas. A follow up letter has been sent to Bishop Summer and hopefully there will be a more definitive reply. Correspondence online at http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/richardson-texas-2016.html.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: They haven’t hosted too many SCV events, but many of their churches host SCV monthly meetings (See enclosed Excel sheet). The UMC has hosted national events for the United Daughters of the Confederacy repeatedly despite correspondence asking them not to. http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/united-methodist-church.html.

The North Texas Conference Bishop McKee was written to in 2014, recently a follow up letter has been sent and hopefully there will be a reply.  Correspondence online at http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/richardson-texas-2016.html. 

PRESBYTERIAN USA:  They are in the top four of hosting national neo-Confederate convention events. (See enclosed Bar Graph.) The 1^st Presbyterian Church in Texarkana, AR, lent their facilities to the Children of the Confederacy national convention in 2015. Presbyterian Voices for Justice has raise the issue (See http://www.pv4j.org/network-news/new-network-news-june-2015.pdf) but it remains to be seen if the Presbyterian USA church will give up the Confederacy. Correspondence in 2014 went unanswered. Hopefully they will respond to a recent letter sent in 2016.   Correspondence online at http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/richardson-texas-2016.html.

OTHER DENOMINATIONS: From the Bar Graphs you can see that other denominations have also hosted neo-Confederate events. Additionally certain Christian Reconstructionist groups and reactionary Presbyterian denominations have had an affinity for the Confederacy.

The article, "The US Civil War as A Theological War: Confederate Christian Nationalism and the League of the South," in the Canadian Review of American Studies, Vol. 32 No. 3, pp. 253-284, describes these conservative denominations. (Available online at: http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/ConfederateChristianNationalism.pdf).

As some denominations stop hosting neo-Confederate groups others may step in to take their place. Remember it might be your church, ask and find out.

CORRESPONDANCE DOCUMENTED ONLINE:

As other religious leaders, denominations, churches and anti-racist groups are written to the correspondence will be online at: http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/richardson-texas-2016.html. Additionally documentation can be sent via Cloud Services to those interested.

CONTACT:

Ed Sebesta can be contacted by email at edwardsebesta@gmail.com. His curriculum vitae is enclosed. He was recently awarded the Spirit of Freedom medal by the African American Civil War Museum and is published by university presses, peer-reviewed academic journals, and Black Commentator. http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/curriculum-vitae.html. 

Wrote President of the Southern Baptist Convention and officers of the Ashley River Baptist Church and all the members of the Executive Board of the Southern Baptist Convention

I wrote a letter to Dr. Ronnie Floyd, President of the Southern Baptist Convention, all the board members of the Executive Committee as well as all the leaders of the Ashley River Baptist Church concerning the unfortunate decision of Ashley River Baptist Church to host the Sons of Confederate Veterans on their 2014 Reunion.

The letters are still working their way through the mail system as I type this post.

What is interesting is that the neo-Confederate movement has ridiculed the Southern Baptist Convention over their apology over slavery, yet the Ashley River Baptist Church has chosen to lend their facilities to a movement which mocks them.

I sent Dr. Floyd quite a bit of documentation. I think it will be somewhat surprising to the Southern Baptist to read the rather disrespectful and virulent condemnations of the Southern Baptist Church.

The letter sent to Dr. Floyd was sent by certified mail and the others were sent with proof of mailing.

The letter is as follows:

October 27, 2014

                                                                   Edward H. Sebesta

                                                                   

                                                                   edwardsebesta@gmail.com

Dr. Ronnie Floyd

President

The Executive Committee, Southern Baptist Convention

901 Commerce Street

Nashville, TN 37203-3699

Dear Dr. Floyd:

I regret to report that the Ashley River Baptist Church, a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, hosted an event for the 2014 National Reunion of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV). It is reported in the July 30, 2014 issue of the Times Examiner.  I enclose a copy, and the article can be read online at http://www.timesexaminer.com/historical/1914-2014-national-reunion-of-sons-of-confederate-veterans.

The SCV is a group which promotes what I believe and I think any rational person would believe are extremist and racist beliefs as documented in an article by myself at Black Commentator, http://www.blackcommentator.com/526/526_confederacy_sebesta_guest_share.html. I enclose a copy. I do investigative research regarding the neo-Confederate movement. My research has been published by university presses, peer reviewed academic journals, as well as by Black Commentator. My resume is online at www.templeofdemocracy.com/resume.htm. I enclose a copy.

When churches lend neo-Confederate groups the use of their facilities they not only give them support through the use of their facilities but additionally they lend the prestige and credibility of their individual church and denomination to that group. The church is also party to the enabling the agenda of the neo-Confederates.

I am disappointed in the Ashley River Baptist Church actions. The Southern Baptist churches have had a record of not hosting the national conventions of neo-Confederate groups. For national conventions from 1990 to 2014 only one Southern Baptist church had hosted the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which was First Baptist Church of Columbia in South Carolina.  For 1990 to 2013 I don’t find any record of a Southern Baptist church hosting the national convention of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. I enclose tables of hosting churches and bar graphs of the hosting by denomination.  This information can also be found online at the web page www.templeofdemocracy.com/churchesoftheconfederacy.htm.

I had had written the four denominations leading in hosting neo-Confederate national convention services not to host the SCV: Episcopalians (both factions), United Methodist, Presbyterians and Roman Catholics (See again enclosed bar graphs). There were indications that the SCV was having difficulties finding a church.

I did not write any organizations of Southern Baptists in South Carolina since I thought Southern Baptists wouldn’t do such a thing. The Southern Baptist church had seemed to be moving forward on the issue of race with such notable actions as the 1995 apology for slavery. It had seemed that the Southern Baptists comprehended that Christianity was a global effort with no one race or nation privileged over another. Yet this doesn’t seem to be the situation.

The neo-Confederate movement besides bringing back into print nearly every antebellum book defending slavery have also been publishing some modern theological defenses of slavery.

The neo-Confederates have been condemning the Southern Baptist Convention for their apology regarding slavery since the resolution was passed in 1995. (http://www.sbc.net/resolutions/899).  The notorious Southern Partisan had two condemnations published. [2^nd Quarter, Vol. 15, 1995, pp. 7 Wesley Pruden; 3^rd Quarter, Vol. 15, 1995, pp. 56 Samuel Francis. Documentation enclosed.]

Though the Sons of Confederate Veterans has not directly condemned the Southern Baptists for their resolution, they have strongly promoted and praised the writings that have condemned the Southern Baptists.

Gary Lee Roper has written a book, “Antebellum Slavery: An Orthodox View,” 2008, advocating a pro-slavery theology, in which on pages 281-82 he condemns the Southern Baptist apology and calls those who passed it “pompous ignoramus.” I enclose documentation.

This book is promoted and praised by the Sons of Confederate Veterans in their publication Chaplain’s Corps Chronicles of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. In the April 2008 issue the SCV Chaplain’s Corps praises the book and tells the readers it is a “must read.” Documentation enclosed.  (http://www.scv.org/pdf/chaplains/2008_Apr.pdf ).

The book is also sold in the SCV catalog, SCV’s online store, and in their official publication Confederate Veteran. I enclose documentation.

Walter D. Kennedy has written a book “Myths of American Slavery,” Pelican Publishing Company, 2003. The Southern Baptists are denounced for their apology on pages 88-96 in a section titled “Radical Influence in the Southern Baptist Convention,” in a chapter titled “Abolitionism Versus Christianity.” On page 89 the author states:

“The passing of the so-called Racial Reconciliation Resolution by the assembled delegates defamed and otherwise slandered the good name of Southern Baptists of the past 150 years. The resolution is nothing more than liberal double-speak for an act of cultural genocide against the South.”

Elsewhere on page 89 the resolution is called “infamous” and the author states, “The duped delegates regurgitated on cue the abolitionist (i.e. liberal) propaganda about the institution of African servitude and life in the Old South.” I enclose documentation.

This book is sold in the SCV catalog, SCV’s online store, and in their official publication Confederate Veteran. I enclose documentation.

The Southern Baptists may have apologized over slavery in 1995 but in 2014 it is aiding and abetting an organization that is promoting pro-slavery theology and a neo-Confederate ideology that condemns the Southern Baptist Convention.

One concern I have developed in investigating neo-Confederate groups is how they are enabled by mainstream organizations such as corporations, churches, government bodies and others. So I have decided to ask these groups to reconsider their relations with specific neo-Confederate groups. It is all well and good that I have written on extremist Confederate Christian nationalists for the Canadian Review of American Studies (http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/ConfederateChristianNationalism.pdf), but I have realized that the enabling of a racist historical consciousness in the general public and racist neo-Confederate groups by mainstream churches is as detrimental to America as these fringe churches referred to in my paper. The Christianity advocated by the SCV is largely similar. You can review their Chaplain’s Chronicle online at http://www.scv.org/about/chaplainsChronicle.php and http://chaplain-in-chief.com/.

In the summer of 2013 I had a successful campaign getting corporations to stop supporting the SCV as reported in a Black Commentator article which is available online at a free guest link at http://www.blackcommentator2.com/527_cover_scv_donation_loss_sebesta_guest.html. (Link is also in my online resume.) It took eight days for this campaign to succeed. I regret to say that so far the temples of Mammon were much more willing to give up neo-Confederacy than the churches of Christ.

I ask that the churches of the Southern Baptist Convention not host the events of neo-Confederate organizations.

Finally as other denominations inevitably move away from hosting neo-Confederate groups the neo-Confederate groups will seek alternatives and the Southern Baptist Convention risks being the leading church hosting neo-Confederate organizations. This transition seems to have already started.

                                                                   Sincerely Yours,

                                                                   Edward H. Sebesta

PS: My website is undergoing redesign, but there will be redirects for all the pages that were on www.templeofdemocracy.com and the web pages mentioned should be easily found. The resume will be Curriculum Vitae, etc.

CC:  See the tables on the following pages:

No	Name	Title	Mailing Address
1	Dr. Ronnie Floyd	President	The Executive Committee, SBC, 901 Commerce St., Nashville, TN 37203-3699
2	Michael W. Routt	Chairman Executive Committee	Senior Pastor Circle Drive Baptist Church, 801 N Circle Dr, Colorado Springs, CO 80909
3	John L. Yeats	Vice Chairman Executive Committee	Executive Director Missouri Baptist Convention, 400 E High St, Jefferson City, MO 65101
4	Carol A. Yarber	Secretary Executive Committee	Retired Office manager, Athens, TX
5	Shane B. Hall	Admin. Comm. Chair Executive Committee	Pastor First Southern Baptist Church, 6400 S Sooner Rd, Oklahoma City, OK 73135
6	Stephen N. Rummage	Bus. & Fin. Comm. Chair	Senior Pastor Bell Shoals Baptist Church, 2102 Bell Shoals Rd, Brandon, FL 33511
7	Benjamin F. Kelley	CP Comm. Chair	Vice President/Executive Director Baptist Health Care Foundation, Montgomery, AL
8	Debby Akerman	Executive Committee Member	Myrtle Beach, SC, WMU national President. 100 Missionary Ridge Dr, Birmingham, AL 35242
9	Kenneth W. Alford	Executive Committee Member	Senior Pastor Crossroads Baptist Church, 3001 Country Club Dr, Valdosta, GA 31602
10	James W. Averett	Executive Committee Member	Retired Southern Company, Birmingham, AL
11	Mark H. Ballard	Executive Committee Member	President Northeastern Baptist College, Northeastern Baptist College PO Box 4600 Bennington, VT 05201-4600
12	Tom Biles	Executive Committee Member	Executive Director Tampa Bay Baptist Assocaiton, 1060 W Busch Blvd, Tampa, FL 33612
13	Charles W. Boling	Executive Committee Member	Director of Missions, Williamson Baptist Assoc., 10093 Old Bainbridge Trail, Marion, IL 62959
14	Wilma J. Booth	Executive Committee Member	Retired teacher, Elgin, IL
15	Tim W. Brasher	Executive Committee Member	CEO, Scottsdale, AZ
16	Charles R. Chambers	Executive Committee Member	CFO Consultant, First Baptist, Toledo, OH
17	M. Kent Choate	Executive Committee Member	Community Groups Pastor, The Church At, Broken Arrow, OK SEND VIA HEADQUARTERS
18	Tony L. Crisp	Executive Committee Member	Eastanalle Baptist Church, 482 County Road 725, Riceville, TN 37370
19	B. Scott Davis	Executive Committee Member	Senior Pastor Pitts Baptist Chuch, 140 Pitts School Rd NW, Concord, NC 28027
20	Eddie W. DeHondt, Jr.	Executive Committee Member	Minister Rose Park Baptist Church, 5560 Buncombe Rd, Shreveport, LA 71129
21	Procopio U. DeLeon	Executive Committee Member	Senior Scientist, Laurel Springs, NJ.
22	David O. Dykes	Executive Committee Member	Pastor Green Acres Baptist Church, 1607 Troup Hwy, Tyler, TX 75701
23	J. Paul Fleming	Executive Committee Member	Executive Pastor Forestville Baptist Church, 2 Old McElhaney Rd, Greenville, SC 29617
24	Robert O. Freshour	Executive Committee Member	Pastor First Baptist Church-South Lyon, 60820 Marjorie Ann St, South Lyon, MI 48178
25	James W. Gregory	Executive Committee Member	Senior Pastor First Southern Baptist Church,1400 N 3rd E, Mountain Home, ID 83647
26	Ron F. Hale	Executive Committee Member	Senior Adult/Pastoral Care, West Jackson Baptist Church, 580 Oil Well Rd, Jackson, TN 38305
27	David A. Hall	Executive Committee Member	Senior Pastor, Oak Grove Baptist Chuch, 2106 Churchville Rd, Bel Air, MD 21015
28	David E. Hamilton	Executive Committee Member	Pastor West Heights Baptist Church, 336 W Oxford St, Pontotoc, MS 38863
29	Ted I. Haney	Executive Committee Member	Financial Planner, Lynn Haven, FL
30	Bedford F. Hanson	Executive Committee Member	Senior Pastor Mountain View Baptist Church, 4250 Poison Spider Rd, Mills, WY 82604
31	Phil Harper	Executive Committee Member	Accounting Professor, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
32	Phillip Herring	Executive Committee Member	Minister of Education, First Baptist Church, 312 Kempsville Rd, Norfolk, VA 23502
33	Timonthy Hight	Executive Committee Member	Senior Pastor Grace Life Baptist Church, 1640 Peppers Ferry Road, Christiansburg, VA 24073
34	Mike Holloway	Executive Committee Member	Senior Pastor Cook Baptist Church, 2000 Cooktown Rd, Ruston, LA 71270
35	Rebecca S. Illingsworth	Executive Committee Member	Legal Secretary/Recruiting Assistance, Royse City, TX
36	Ralph Jenkins	Executive Committee Member	Pastor Airway Hieghts Baptist Church, 12322 W Sunset Hwy, Airway Heights, WA 99001
37	William E. Kinchen	Executive Committee Member	Semi-retired insurance, Jackson, MS
38	David W. King	Executive Committee Member	Rancher, Stanley, NM
39	Bobby L. Kirk	Executive Committee Member	Farmer, Real Estate Broker, Doddsville, MS
40	Franklin D. Kovaleski	Executive Committee Member	Retired NFHS, Anderson, IN
41	Michael L. Lawson	Executive Committee Member	Senior Pastor First Baptist Church, 400 S. Travis St., Sherman, TX  75090
42	Steven W. Loggins	Executive Committee Member	Director of Missions, Mount Olive, AL
43	R. Ron Madison	Executive Committee Member	Senior Pastor Mount Zion Baptist Church, 228 Mt Zion Rd, Huntsville, AL 35806
44	Timothy D. Maynard	Executive Committee Member	Pastor Fruit Cove Baptist Church, 501 Florida 13, St Johns, FL 32259
45	Paul E. McPherson	Executive Committee Member	Retired CPA, Magnolia, AR
46	Christopher D. Metcalf	Executive Committee Member	Pastor Lihue Baptist Church, 3223 Elua St, Lihue, HI 96766
47	Terry H. Montgomery	Executive Committee Member	President/CEO Charlotte, NC
48	John H. Moore	Executive Committee Member	Retired Physician, Associate Pastor Branson First Baptist Church, 400 S Sunshine St, Branson, MO 65616
49	D. Wayne Myrick	Executive Committee Member	CEO, MG Design & Construction, Verbena, AL
50	Robert Neely	Executive Committee Member	Pastoral Associate/Sales, Spartenburg, SC
51	Timothy A. Ohis	Executive Committee Member	Pastor Believers Southern Baptist Church, 13909 West 21st St N, Wichita, KS 67235
52	L. Douglas Passmore	Executive Committee Member	Pastor First Baptist East, 3302 SE Lee Blvd, Lawton, OK 73501
53	Jeff L. Paul	Executive Committee Member	Pastor First Baptist Church, 302 S Missouri St, Archie, MO 64725
54	Pat J. Pavlian	Executive Committee Member	Mortgage Banker, Highland, CA
55	David C. Perdue	Executive Committee Member	Business, Memphis, TN
56	Michael E. Pope	Executive Committee Member	Dentist, Somerset, TN
57	Bill Price	Executive Committee Member	Vocational Evangelist, Covington, GA
58	James A. Ray	Executive Committee Member	Banker, Clearwater, FL
59	Charles Rhinehart	Executive Committee Member	Engineer, Youngsville, LA
60	Wayne Robertson	Executive Committee Member	Pastor Morningside Baptist Church, 425 Connell Rd, Valdosta, GA 31602
61	Lovina K. Rush	Executive Committee Member	Retired Commerce Bank, Holt, MO
62	Cheryl S. Samples	Executive Committee Member	Retired Educator, Dallas, GA
63	Michael L. Scifres	Executive Committee Member	Retired pharmacist, Eufaula, OK
64	Jay F. Shell	Executive Committee Member	Attorney, Batesville, AR
65	John Mark Simmons	Executive Committee Member	Senior Pastor Highland Hills Baptist Church,  615 College Dr, Henderson, NV 89002
66	Danny S. Sinquefield	Executive Committee Member	Pastor Faith Baptist Church, 2775 Shelby St, Bartlett, TN 38134
67	Rotland E. Slade	Executive Committee Member	Pastor Meridian Southern Baptist Church, 660 S 3rd St, El Cajon, CA 92019
68	John E. Smith	Executive Committee Member	Pastor Munfordville Baptist Church, 501 N West St, Munfordville, KY 42765
69	Roger L. Spradlin	Executive Committee Member	Senior Pastor Valley Baptist Church, 4800 Fruitvale Ave, Bakersfield, CA 93308
70	Robert E. Stennett	Executive Committee Member	Attorney, Scott Depot, WV
71	Michael R. Stone	Executive Committee Member	Pastor Emannual Baptist Church, 217 W Carter Ave, Blackshear, GA 31516
72	Dale R. Suel	Executive Committee Member	Senior Pastor Amherst Baptist Church, 100 Willow Ridge Dr, Amherst, NY 14228
73	Robert D. Summerlin	Executive Committee Member	Senior Pastor Lone Oak First Baptist Church, 3601 Lone Oak Rd, Paducah, KY 42003
74	Stephen K. Swofford	Executive Committee Member	Pastor First Baptist Church, 610 S Goliad St, Rockwall, TX 75087
75	Thomas B. Tucker III	Executive Committee Member	Senior Pastor Sisk Memorial Baptist Church, 115 Massey St, Fort Mill, SC 29715
76	G. Harris Waner Jr.	Executive Committee Member	Attorney, Calloway, VA
77	Jeffrey B. Watson	Executive Committee Member	Attorney, Winston-Salem, NC
78	Stanley J. Welch	Executive Committee Member	Senior Pastor West Asheville Baptist Church, 926 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC 28806
79	Bradford M. Wheeler	Executive Committee Member	Pastor Capitol Hill Baptist Church,  525 A St NE, Washington, DC 20002
80	Bill D. Whitaker	Executive Committee Member	Retired Pastor, Glasgow Baptist Church, 401 S Green St, Glasgow, KY 42141
81	Andy H. Wilson	Executive Committee Member	Executive Leader -- Ministry & Operations, First Baptist Church, Springdale, AR. 1709 Johnson Rd, Springdale, AR 72762
82	Rev. Dave Patterson	Senior Pastor	Ashley River Baptist Church, 1101 Savannah Highway, Charleston, SC 29407
83	Rev. Ron Shearer	Pastor of Education	Ashley River Baptist Church, 1101 Savannah Highway, Charleston, SC 29407
84	Rev. David Martin Sr.	Pastor of Worship	Ashley River Baptist Church, 1101 Savannah Highway, Charleston, SC 29407
85	Rev. Kent Williams	Pastor of Youth and Missions	Ashley River Baptist Church, 1101 Savannah Highway, Charleston, SC 29407
86	Ms. Lauren Thomas	Director for Children's Ministries	Ashley River Baptist Church, 1101 Savannah Highway, Charleston, SC 29407
87	Mr. Albert Jenkins	Ministry Assistant for Finance	Ashley River Baptist Church, 1101 Savannah Highway, Charleston, SC 29407
88	Ms. Lynn Chamberlain	Ministry Assistant	Ashley River Baptist Church, 1101 Savannah Highway, Charleston, SC 29407
89	Mrs. Veronica Rodoski	Ministry Assistant	Ashley River Baptist Church, 1101 Savannah Highway, Charleston, SC 29407
90	Mr. Fred Lane	Head of Maintenance Department	Ashley River Baptist Church, 1101 Savannah Highway, Charleston, SC 29407
91	Ms. Heather McDonald	Child Development Director	Ashley River Baptist Church, 1101 Savannah Highway, Charleston, SC 29407
92	Mrs. Lindsay Welch	Child Development Assistant Director	Ashley River Baptist Church, 1101 Savannah Highway, Charleston, SC 29407

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No.	Denomination	Officer	Title	Address
1	National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.	Dr. Jerry Young	President Elect	Pastor Dr. Jerry Young, New Hope Baptist Church,  5202 Watkins Dr., Jackson, MS 39206
2	National Baptist Convention of America International Inc.	Rev. Samuel C. Tolbert Jr.	President Elect	National Baptist Convention of America International, Inc., 777 S R L Thornton Freeway, Suite # 210, Dallas, Texas 75203
3	National Missionary Baptist Convention of America	Dr. Nehemiah Davis	National President	NMBCA, 6925 Wofford Dr., Dallas, Texas 75227
4	Progressive National Baptist Conventions, Inc.	Dr. James C. Perkins	President	PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION, INC., 601 - 50th Street, NE , Washington, DC  20019
5	Full Gospel Baptist Church	Bishop Paul S. Morton Sr.	Presiding Bishop	Bishop Paul S. Morton Ministries, 3350 Greenbriar Pkwy SW, Atlanta, GA 30331, United States of America
6	Full Gospel Baptist Church	Bishop John W. Walker III	Presiding Bishop-Elect	Bishop Joseph Walker Ministries, P.O. Box 330374, Nashville, TN 37203