[lbo-talk] The Nation: Hillary's Nasty Pastorate

[Gar Lipow]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here Ehrenreich is a liberal writing about evangelicals, as
>  breathlessly as we might have come to expect.  I certainly didn't mean
>  to imply that readers should expect any depth from her.
>
>  OMG, Hillary and Suharto, like, belonged to the same religious
>  organization!  (Hitler and most of the East Timorese Suharto killed
>  also shared a church, but we won't go there.)

OK - I have trouble believing ties between Hillary and The Family are
as close as portrayed. But I've been following the story of The Family
in passing for years, and Ehrenreich is NOT exaggerating the nature of
that organization. If anything she is understating. This is not simply
another evangelical church. It is a Christian Reconstructionist
Church. It is a core belief of the The Family that people with power
are given that power by God, and the mission of the Church is reveal
their destiny and their part in Gods plan to peopel with power. In
practice this means that a core part of their mission is to become
officials in governments, and advisers to the people at the top. That
is not part of the self-proclaimed mission of your average right-wing
evangelical church, not even of your average fundamentalist church.
The dictator members of the Family were sought out for membership by
the Family as part of its core mission.