AMERICAN TALIBAN

America's "New Ruling Taliban"?

Christian Reconstructionists Launch "Operation Potomac" Jeffrey 
Ziegler, President of the National Reform Association (NRA), a 
Pittsburgh, PA based Christian Reconstructionist organization, 
has announced plans to form a political action committee and public 
policy organization, officially entering Washington's world of 
politics. The NRA hopes that through "Operation Potomac" it can 
begin lobbying, developing political campaigns, and grooming 
potential candidates to run at the federal level. The NRA and 
Christian Reconstructionism, however, already have close ties 
to Washington. NRA members have met with several Republicans in 
the House and Senate during three trips to Washington, DC made 
since July 2000. House Whip Tom DeLay (R-TX) is reportedly helping 
NRA members organize a "biblical worldview" conference on Capital 
Hill next year, and President Bush may be considering J. Robert 
Brame III, board member of Reconstructionist group American Vision 
as a member of the National Labor Relations Board. Brame has written 
that the "only sure guide is Divinely-inspired Biblical law 
superintended by the God Who watches over His Word." 

Christian Reconstructionist ideology is the most radical expression 
of the Religious Right. Believing that the Bible should be the basis 
of government, education, and law, Reconstructionists envision an 
extremist society in which public schools, most social service 
programs, and welfare would be obliterated. According to 
Reconstructionist belief, the Bible allows liberal application 
of the death penalty for crimes including homosexuality, abortion, 
adultery, child disobedience, and witchcraft. Acceptable forms of 
capital punishment supposedly outlined in the Bible include burning, 
stoning, and hanging. Slavery is also acceptable, according to
Reconstructionists who claim  that the Bible does not outlaw all 
of its methods.

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Source: "We Are Traverse City"
http://www.wearetraversecity.com/announcements/101401.htm

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