In 1991, Gordon Winrod’s son, David, established Our Savior’s Church of the Wilderness on 20 acres of land in remote Cordova Bay, Alaska, near the town of Hydaburg. Gordon Winrod told the former owner of the property that he was buying it for his son and that "We hope to build a church building in that remote place." There, David Winrod published a newsletter called Our Savior’s Cross, which the Ketchikan Daily News described as "an anti-Jew manifesto." The initial issue of the newsletter, dated May 1991, contained statements such as "The Jews are Satan’s Mystery Babylon World Government of these last days" and "The Term Anti-Semitism is a Lie."

The next issue of David Winrod’s Our Savior’s Cross was dated September 1991 and entitled "The Synagogue Of Satan." It proclaimed: "Relentless world revolution murders and enslaves whole nations. This ongoing slaughter is the work of the anti-Christ Jews, whose chief purpose is to exterminate Christianity." In November 1991, David Winrod issued a tract titled, "Do Penance, Not War." Echoing the anti-Jewish sentiments of his father, he stated in part: "Judaism is the ultimate heresy. Only by energetic resistance against the Jews can Christianity (and thus, civilization) survive, for the Jews are the source of all heresies."

In October 1992, Gordon Winrod, writing in The Winrod Letter, reported that his son had been acquitted by a court in Alaska on charges of timber theft. The elder Winrod declared of the incident: "Jewish persecution of Winrods for testifying to Jesus’s fight against the Jews is not some new thing."

In March 1996, David Winrod’s Our Savior’s Church of the Wilderness sent a bulk-rate mailing to postal customers in the southeast Alaska town of Ward Cove. The mailing consisted of the June 1994 issue of his publication, Our Savior’s Cross, on "The International Jew," and a reprint from his father’s The Winrod Letter of July 1994 entitled "The Spearhead Of Secret World Government."

For his part, Gordon Winrod sent a mass mailing to residents of Marshall, Minnesota, in January 1994 and Mountain View, Missouri, in June 1996. The latter included the June issue of The Winrod Letter, entitled "The Princes of Sodom." The anti-Jewish diatribe contained statements such as "Hypocritical Jewdicials’ ‘Courts’ are snake’s dens, where Jew synagogue and Jew magistrate are joined" and "The U.S., bewitched, is Jewish Sodom, ruled by Sodom’s Princes and Jewdicials."

Unsuspecting recipients of the Winrods’ anti-Jewish mailings have expressed surprise, shock and revulsion. That has not stopped this father-and-son team of bigots from trying to convert new audiences to anti-Semitism. Their lifelong and continuing activities remain a cause of concern for all decent people who eschew bigotry and hatred.

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