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If you didn鈥檛 know it already, this is Constitution Week across the country. Smack dab in the middle in Ohio, the Daniel Cooper chapter of the (DAR) wanted to do something special this year to commemorate the 226-year-old document. But what? The group wasn鈥檛 exactly sure. 鈥淚 haven鈥檛 read the Constitution since high school, many decades ago,鈥� chapter head Betsey Taylor told Hatewatch.

Probably most Americans could make the same confession, so the women of the Daniel Cooper chapter decided to take a 12-week Constitution course and invite everyone in their Dayton, Ohio-area community 鈥� from teenagers to grandparents 鈥� to join them. But it isn鈥檛 the traditional civics-class version of the Constitution course they hope to share. The class Daniel Cooper has signed up for and is promoting is a highly controversial lecture series offered by the far-right Institute on the Constitution (IOTC).

IOTC was founded by Michael Peroutka, a Maryland lawyer who sits on the board of the , a racist neo-Confederate group that advocates for a second Southern secession and a society dominated by 鈥淓uropean Americans.鈥� The league wants to form a 鈥済odly鈥� nation, run by an 鈥淎nglo-Celtic鈥� (read: white) elite that would establish a Christian theocratic state and politically dominate black people and other minorities. Peroutka was also the 2004 presidential candidate of the , a far-right, theocratic third party.

,鈥� writes Warren Throckmorton, a psychology professor who studies and blogs extensively on public policy, mental health, sexual identity and religious issues and has been closely following IOTC鈥檚 attempts to plant its flag in Ohio. 鈥淗e believes along with the League of the South that this 鈥榬egime鈥� will collapse leading to secession or some other situation.鈥�

A flyer announcing the lecture series promises 鈥渢o introduce you to the Constitution of the United States of American, our Biblical heritage and limited government.鈥�

鈥淏eginning with the Bible,鈥� the flyer continues, 鈥測ou will learn the origins of law and government. Next, stories of America鈥檚 discovery, settlement and evangelization from exciting, primary sources you never saw in school!鈥�

The series is scheduled to begin tonight at Grace Lutheran Church in West Carrollton, a 20-minute drive from Springboro, Ohio, where a revolt this past summer by parents and alumni forced the local school board to cancel the same 12-week program the DAR chapter is promoting and a one-day seminar offered by an outfit called the National Center for Constitutional Studies.

that the courses 鈥渆mbroiled the district in controversy over what opponents called a religious interpretation of the subject,鈥� and that the groups offering the courses 鈥渉ave been criticized as 鈥榯ea party leaning鈥� and religiously oriented.鈥�

Before the parent upraising, the Springboro school board had planned to offer the courses during the summer to parents, students and staff. The board reportedly wanted to evaluate the courses for possible inclusion in its schools. In June, according to the Dayton Daily News, the ACLU of Ohio announced it 鈥渨as investigating the board鈥檚 actions as part of an overall plan to push a religious agenda in the public school district.鈥�

A month later, the board cancelled both courses.

Taylor, the regent, or head, of the Daniel Cooper DAR chapter, said she was not aware of the protests in nearby Springboro nor did she know about the connection IOTC has to the League of the South or what the League stands for. 鈥淧ersonally, I just love history,鈥� Taylor said. 鈥淲e鈥檙e not sponsoring the group. We鈥檙e sponsoring a class on the Constitution. If it gets to be political, our participation will stop.鈥�

The regent said that as the chapter discussed ways to commemorate the Constitution this year, a member, Georgene Bonsteel, suggested the chapter, which has 109 members, sign up for the lecture series. Bonsteel, Taylor said, was one of several chapter members who had previously taken the course and recommended it. According to the IOTC website, more than 250 鈥渟tudents鈥欌�� in Ohio graduated from the course last year.

Bonsteel told Hatewatch that she did know about the parent protests in Springboro and the school board鈥檚 decision to cancel the courses. 鈥淚 think it鈥檚 terrible,鈥� she said, 鈥渢hat there are factions in this country that don鈥檛 believe in doing things correctly and erroneously accuse patriotic organizations of doing what is not right.鈥�

Like Taylor, however, Bonsteel said she did not know anything about the League.

鈥淩ight now, they want to secede?鈥� she asked.

The answer is yes.

Bonsteel said that would not change her mind about offering the course to her DAR sisters and anyone else.

鈥淭here is nothing that would keep me from being involved in this wonderful, Constitution information classes,鈥� she said. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 all it is.鈥�

In an interview with Hatewatch today, Throckmorton, a conservative evangelical who teaches at a Christian liberal arts college, said the IOTC connection to the League of the South should make 鈥渁nyone run in the opposite direction.鈥� The League, he said, 鈥渨ants to take us back to before the Civil War.鈥�

Throckmorton 鈥� who recently wrote an important book debunking theocratic claims about Thomas Jefferson and the foundation of the United States 鈥� said that while the course does provide some accurate information about the Constitution, much of it is distorted history and 鈥減ro-Confederate鈥� propaganda. He said people who sign up for the course apparently believe they are getting hidden information, the inside scoop they were never told about in school.

鈥淭he reason they haven鈥檛 heard it before,鈥� he said, 鈥渋s because it just isn鈥檛 so.鈥�