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Bush campaign hires Christian Reconstructionist for RNC

Focus on the Family founder James Dobson urges Republican votes, says gay marriage "will destroy the Earth"

Anti-gay attack ad on Kerry - anti-marriage, implies he and Edwards are queer

Comments

[avram]

That first article does not accurately convey just how far-out loony and dangerous the Christian Reconstructionist movement is. Y’know how you and I look at Jerry Falwell and think of him as a nutty extremist Christian? The Christian Reconstructionists are the people Falwell looks at and thinks of as nutty extremist Christians. Here’s the first paragraph of “Invitation to a Stoning” from Reason Online:

For connoisseurs of surrealism on the American right, it's hard to beat an exchange that appeared about a decade ago in the Heritage Foundation magazine Policy Review. It started when two associates of the Rev. Jerry Falwell wrote an article which criticized Christian Reconstructionism, the influential movement led by theologian Rousas John (R.J.) Rushdoony, for advocating positions that even they as committed fundamentalists found "scary." Among Reconstructionism's highlights, the article cited support for laws "mandating the death penalty for homosexuals and drunkards." The Rev. Rushdoony fired off a letter to the editor complaining that the article had got his followers' views all wrong: They didn't intend to put drunkards to death.

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

it's extremists like those that give Christian's a bad name by painting anything that contradicts their way of belief as evil, etc.