Banned from seeing my kids.

My husband and I are currently ttc and the closer I get to potentially having a little one of my own, the more I think about what kind of parent I'd like to be. This often leads me to ponder the type of parents my own mom and dad were/are. I know for a fact that I would like to be a parent that teaches love, understanding, equality, tolerance, and all of that other hippie dippie stuff but I also know that is almost the opposite to how I was raised. I mean, I wasn't by any means raised to hate people but my parents did teach me that our way of living is the "right way" and everyone should conduct their lives in this particular manner. Don't get me wrong, my mom was a saint and the time she spent at the local university taught her a lot of valuable lessons in tolerance and her only sin that I can think of is perhaps spoiling me and my brothers a little too much. My dad on the other hand is, as I would describe, horrible. I love of course but I can't stand him. His views are so backwards and having a social platform, like Facebook, to spend his hate has only made matters worse. I've contemplated deleting him as my friend several times but I just can't bring myself to do it because he's my father and he is part of me. His hatred has only gotten worse since 2009 when Obama was elected president. His Facebook is just filled with posts about Obama and racist memes about Muslims and people from the Middle East. I always remind him that he's part Persian and he just yells at me and tells me not to remind him of that. It has gotten so bad that I am contemplating keeping my children away from him. My husband is in the army and next year we will be moving away and we will get first choice of where we want to go. My mom wants us to stay close but I want to be as far away from my father as possible. Anyway, I'm sorry if this post is too long but I just wanted to do a bit of a rant and see if anyone else has to deal with the same thing. I also want to know if I'm being to cruel for considering not letting him be in my kids lives. I just don't want him to poison their minds or put any kind of unnecessary stress on them.