Lt. General Jerry Boykin Backs Out of Conference Sponsored by Institute on the Constitution (UPDATED – IOTC Appears to be Out)

UPDATE (8/9/13) – Alex Seitz-Wald also wrote about this situation and added some detail, including the fact that Glenn Beck had been promoting this conference.
See additional update following the post…
Yesterday, in my post on the radicalization of the League of the South, I linked to a conference sponsored by the Institute on the Constitution. I noted that

…several  mainstream evangelicals are speaking in September at a conference sponsored by IOTC and held at a major mega church in Texas.

If you click the links you will go to something called the Founding Faith Conference 2013 (now unavailable without a password). Until earlier today, Lt. General Jerry Boykin was slated to be a key speaker at the conference. However, I learned earlier this afternoon via a source at the Family Research Council (where Boykin is an executive vice-president) that Lt. General Boykin recently became aware of ties between the Institute on the Constitution and the League of the South and, as a result, has backed out of the conference.
For sure those ties are real. Founding Faith Conference speaker David Whitney is the chaplain of the Maryland chapter of the League of the South. At the 2013 conference of the League of the South, IOTC founder and director Michael Peroutka’s was selected to join the League’s board of directors. Then, at the end of his speech, Peroutka, pledged the resources of the IOTC to the efforts of the League.  Watch:

 
UPDATE (8/8/13) – IOTC is now missing from the sponsor page on the conference website (screen cap earlier today) and David Whitney is no longer listed as a speaker (screen cap earlier today). At this time, I don’t know what that means for the other speakers, except to note that they are still listed.
At the end of the Salon piece, Margaret Andrews supplied a statement about her response to Boykin’s departure. I can add that I contacted her on 8/6 before I wrote anything about the conference. She did not make any obvious changes until the afternoon of 8/8, after Boykin disclosed his intention to exit.
 

20 thoughts on “Lt. General Jerry Boykin Backs Out of Conference Sponsored by Institute on the Constitution (UPDATED – IOTC Appears to be Out)”

      1. Well I kinda figured. 🙂 Just pointed it out to suggest that maybe we shouldn’t assume the worst about Boykin, i.e. that he knew about the LotS connection going in and only backed out because it started getting press.
        Has Dr. Johnson also backed out?

    1. buddyglass – My understanding is that he also was unaware that the IOTC director was a board member of the League.

      1. Well I kinda figured. 🙂 Just pointed it out to suggest that maybe we shouldn’t assume the worst about Boykin, i.e. that he knew about the LotS connection going in and only backed out because it started getting press.
        Has Dr. Johnson also backed out?

  1. Mr. Van Dyke:
    Perkins is Bokin’s boss because Boykin is currently employed by Family Research Council (as Warren correctly points out).
    Perkins does have a white supremacist record. In 1996, as a Louisiana campaign manager, Perkins hired Duke’s phone bank for $90K. He and his candidate, Woody Jenkins, attempted to hide the transaction for which they were fined $90K for violation of campaign finance laws (it was settled for $3K). Moreover, Perkins has spoken before the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white supremacist organization that SPLC classifies as a hate group.
    Boykin is a crackpot (IMO). He has charged that President Obama is creating a Hitler-like cadre of Brownshirts to force Marxism down Americans’ throats. Sure Jerry – open wide. He also claims that there should be no mosques permitted in America and that Muslims do not have First Amendment religious freedoms. Shall I continue my “apology?”

    1. Use credible sources, not left-wing buttholes.
      Joe Carter, who is the webmaster for the Family Research Council, left a comment pointing to Perkins’ response to Blumenthal on the FRC website. That response said:

      Tony Perkins was the manager of the 1996 U.S. Senate campaign of Republican Woody Jenkins in Louisiana where Impact Media was contracted to make pre-recorded telephone calls for the campaign. In 1999, an unrelated federal investigation uncovered that David Duke had a financial interest in the company, which he did not report to the IRS, resulting in his conviction on federal tax evasion charges. This connection was not known to Mr. Perkins until 1999. Mr. Perkins profoundly opposes the racial views of Mr. Duke and was profoundly grieved to learn that Duke was a party to the company that had done work for the 1996 campaign.
      These facts have been widely reported in Louisiana and the reports appearing now in various partisan media are not accurate. In 2003, Mr. Jenkins published a letter in the major daily in Baton Rouge responding to a critical article that resurrected the same distortion. “[I]t is unfortunate,” Jenkins wrote, “for you to smear a good man like [then-] Rep. Tony Perkins. There is absolutely nothing about the matter that should taint Rep. Perkins. His intentions were entirely honorable, and neither he nor I have ever been ‘in bed’ with David Duke as you so crudely and unjustifiably allege.”
      The assertions made by Mr. Blumenthal are untrue and a distortion of the facts.

      As for Boykin having a “boss,” you are technically correct and I withdraw the objection. The intimation that Gen. Boykin would do as he is told contrary to his conscience is unlikely but falls within the province of acceptable slime in the current environment, just as Dr. Throckmorton could be similarly slimed as one who must do whatever Grove City College tells him to.
      Which he wouldn’t.

      1. No retraction or apology for spreading false allegations, I see. Clearly the “accuracy” door only swings one way.

  2. Mr. Van Dyke:
    Perkins is Bokin’s boss because Boykin is currently employed by Family Research Council (as Warren correctly points out).
    Perkins does have a white supremacist record. In 1996, as a Louisiana campaign manager, Perkins hired Duke’s phone bank for $90K. He and his candidate, Woody Jenkins, attempted to hide the transaction for which they were fined $90K for violation of campaign finance laws (it was settled for $3K). Moreover, Perkins has spoken before the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white supremacist organization that SPLC classifies as a hate group.
    Boykin is a crackpot (IMO). He has charged that President Obama is creating a Hitler-like cadre of Brownshirts to force Marxism down Americans’ throats. Sure Jerry – open wide. He also claims that there should be no mosques permitted in America and that Muslims do not have First Amendment religious freedoms. Shall I continue my “apology?”

    1. Use credible sources, not left-wing buttholes.
      Joe Carter, who is the webmaster for the Family Research Council, left a comment pointing to Perkins’ response to Blumenthal on the FRC website. That response said:

      Tony Perkins was the manager of the 1996 U.S. Senate campaign of Republican Woody Jenkins in Louisiana where Impact Media was contracted to make pre-recorded telephone calls for the campaign. In 1999, an unrelated federal investigation uncovered that David Duke had a financial interest in the company, which he did not report to the IRS, resulting in his conviction on federal tax evasion charges. This connection was not known to Mr. Perkins until 1999. Mr. Perkins profoundly opposes the racial views of Mr. Duke and was profoundly grieved to learn that Duke was a party to the company that had done work for the 1996 campaign.
      These facts have been widely reported in Louisiana and the reports appearing now in various partisan media are not accurate. In 2003, Mr. Jenkins published a letter in the major daily in Baton Rouge responding to a critical article that resurrected the same distortion. “[I]t is unfortunate,” Jenkins wrote, “for you to smear a good man like [then-] Rep. Tony Perkins. There is absolutely nothing about the matter that should taint Rep. Perkins. His intentions were entirely honorable, and neither he nor I have ever been ‘in bed’ with David Duke as you so crudely and unjustifiably allege.”
      The assertions made by Mr. Blumenthal are untrue and a distortion of the facts.

      As for Boykin having a “boss,” you are technically correct and I withdraw the objection. The intimation that Gen. Boykin would do as he is told contrary to his conscience is unlikely but falls within the province of acceptable slime in the current environment, just as Dr. Throckmorton could be similarly slimed as one who must do whatever Grove City College tells him to.
      Which he wouldn’t.

      1. No retraction or apology for spreading false allegations, I see. Clearly the “accuracy” door only swings one way.

  3. Let us not forget that his boss, Tony Perkins, has direct ties to David Duke
    Oh please, Mr. Hart, who is “us?”
    That’s ugly where it’s not moronic. Nobody has “ties” to the execrable David Duke and Gen. Boykin has no “boss” since he retired from the US .
    This sliming of an honorable man cannot go unanswered here in the real world. Put up or shut up, David. You owe the truth an apology.

  4. Let us not forget that his boss, Tony Perkins, has direct ties to David Duke
    Oh please, Mr. Hart, who is “us?”
    That’s ugly where it’s not moronic. Nobody has “ties” to the execrable David Duke and Gen. Boykin has no “boss” since he retired from the US .
    This sliming of an honorable man cannot go unanswered here in the real world. Put up or shut up, David. You owe the truth an apology.

  5. Let us not forget that his boss, Tony Perkins, has direct ties to David Duke
    Oh please, Mr. Hart, who is “us?”
    That’s ugly where it’s not moronic. Nobody has “ties” to the execrable David Duke and Gen. Boykin has no “boss” since he retired from the US .
    This sliming of an honorable man cannot go unanswered here in the real world. Put up or shut up, David. You owe the truth an apology.

  6. Let us not forget that his boss, Tony Perkins, has direct ties to David Duke
    Oh please, Mr. Hart, who is “us?”
    That’s ugly where it’s not moronic. Nobody has “ties” to the execrable David Duke and Gen. Boykin has no “boss” since he retired from the US .
    This sliming of an honorable man cannot go unanswered here in the real world. Put up or shut up, David. You owe the truth an apology.

  7. Admittedly, Boykin is not one of my favorite people. I would consider the very real possibility, Warren, that he knew of the connections all along. However, you made it too hot for him to get away with it. Let us not forget that his boss, Tony Perkins, has direct ties to David Duke

  8. Admittedly, Boykin is not one of my favorite people. I would consider the very real possibility, Warren, that he knew of the connections all along. However, you made it too hot for him to get away with it. Let us not forget that his boss, Tony Perkins, has direct ties to David Duke

  9. Admittedly, Boykin is not one of my favorite people. I would consider the very real possibility, Warren, that he knew of the connections all along. However, you made it too hot for him to get away with it. Let us not forget that his boss, Tony Perkins, has direct ties to David Duke

  10. Admittedly, Boykin is not one of my favorite people. I would consider the very real possibility, Warren, that he knew of the connections all along. However, you made it too hot for him to get away with it. Let us not forget that his boss, Tony Perkins, has direct ties to David Duke

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