"The Old Testament—with its 600 or so Mosaic laws—is the inflexible guide for the society DeMar and other Reconstructionists envision. Government posts would be reserved for the righteous, as long as they are male. There would be thousands of executions a year, with stoning a preferred method because it would turn the deaths into “community projects,” as movement theologian North has noted. Sinners in line for the death penalty would include women who commit adultery or lie about their virginity, blasphemers, witches, children who strike their parents, and gay men (lesbians, however, would be spared because no specific reference to them can be found in the Books of Moses). DeMar told me that among Reconstructionists he is considered something of a liberal, because he’d execute gays only if they were caught indulging in sodomy. “I’m happy to just drive them back into the closet,” he said.
In introducing Moore at the Trinity Chapel rally, DeMar told the crowd that he supports a “jurisdictional separation of church and state.” But he was not mounting a defense of the First Amendment so much as outlining an organizational distinction. In his book Liberty at Risk, DeMar writes that “the State cannot be neutral towards the Christian faith. Any obstacle that would jeopardize the preaching of the Word of God…must be opposed by civil government.”
Besides facilitating evangelism, Reconstructionists believe, government should largely be limited to building and maintaining roads, enforcing land-use contracts, and ensuring just weights and measures. Unions would not exist, and neither would unemployment benefits, Social Security, and environmental protection laws. Public schools would disappear; one of the movement’s great successes has been promoting homeschooling programs and publishing texts used by tens of thousands of homeschooling families. And, perhaps most importantly, the state is “God’s minister,” as DeMar puts it in Liberty at Risk, “taking vengeance out on those who do evil.” A major task for the government key Reconstructionists envision is fielding armies for conquest in the name of Jesus."
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Eventually, you can bet yer boots, they'll get around to a "Jewish Solution"
"We look forward to hearing your vision, so we can more better do our job. That's what I'm telling you." —George W. Bush, Gulfport, Miss., Sept. 20, 2005
posted on December 2, 2005 03:37:56 AM new
Thanks for the link tom. We deal with these people all the time in education. "Concerned parents" end up being activists with a very scary agenda.
edited to fix a reversal. I'm lysdexic you know....
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posted on December 3, 2005 12:45:41 PM new
Tis really amazing just how much the GOPiggy RIGHT-WING hates the US CONSTITUTION, especially the BILL OF RIGHTS!
Their dream is to establish a "Taliban-of-Jaesus" here in the good ole US-of-A...
They know that they are 100% right about EVERYTHING, and that all other religions are 100% wrong because "GOD" comes down and whispers sweet nothings into their ears...
They blither and blather about "liberty" and "freedom" and "democracy" even though they be the greatest enemy of these ideals...
THANK "GOD" (or YAHWEH or VISHNU or ALLAH or THE ULTIMATE REALITY or THE GREAT PUMPKIN or WHOEVER or WHATEVER) for our CONSTITUTION and its protections against...RELIGIOUS TYRANNY!
posted on December 4, 2005 04:54:20 PM new
I'm bumping this in the hope that EVERYBODY, especially members of the RELIGIOUS RIGHT-WING, read this very terrifying article...
Hopefully, it will instigate some deep soul-searching...
The GREATEST gift our nation's FOUNDING FATHERS left us is this truly remarkable document: the US CONSTITUTION
For just about the first time in history, certain BASIC RIGHTS were enshrined as NATIONAL LAW, based not on the WILL OF THE MAJORITY nor on the crass WEIGHT OF POWER, but rather, the dedication to the preservation of the RIGHTS OF THE MINORITY...the PROTECTION OF THE UN-POPULAR...
The amazing recognition that for the nation to tread on the rights of one group would ultimately lead to the LOSS OF RIGHTS for ALL GROUPS!
"We look forward to hearing your vision, so we can more better do our job. That's what I'm telling you." —George W. Bush, Gulfport, Miss., Sept. 20, 2005
posted on December 4, 2005 05:06:18 PM new
No, actually, the exact opposite. Sadly I believe that in their secret "heart-of-hearts," THAT is EXACTLY what they long for...
"We look forward to hearing your vision, so we can more better do our job. That's what I'm telling you." —George W. Bush, Gulfport, Miss., Sept. 20, 2005
