Sex and power inside "the C Street House"

Sanford, Ensign, and other regulars receive guidance from the invisible fundamentalist group known as the Family

If sexual license was all the Family offered the C Street men, however, that would merely be seedy and self-serving. But Family men are more than hypocritical. They're followers of a political religion that embraces elitism, disdains democracy, and pursues power for its members the better to "advance the Kingdom." They say they're working for Jesus, but their Christ is a power-hungry, inside-the-Beltway savior not many churchgoers would recognize. Sexual ... Full Story »

Posted by Dwight Rousu
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Subjects: Politics, Living, Religion
Topics: Republicans, Religion and Politics, Republican Nomination, Sex
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Jul 21, 2009 - 8:14 PM PDT
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Jul 21, 2009 - 8:14 PM PDT
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by Dwight Rousu - Jul. 21, 2009

Sharlet reports a moral pit of the worst order, pretending to be Christian, but empowering the worst of the worst in American politics. Almost unbelievable, and a must read.

These are people who all must be voted out of office. Their primaries and final runoffs all need good contestants and good financing. An exorcism at the ballot box.

Pryor explained to me the meaning of bipartisanship he’d learned through the Family: “Jesus didn’t come to take sides. He came to take over.” And by ... More »

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