From: http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles6/DouthatTheocracy.php
Sadly, Rudin's book is thin on examples of significant political actors who are proposing taking any of these steps, let alone all of them. What he has instead are the Christian Reconstructionists--the acolytes of the late R.J. Rushdoony--who are genuine theocrats, of a sort, and who also rank somewhere between the Free Mumia movement and the Spartacist Youth League on the totem pole of political influence in America. Yet this doesn't prevent them from figuring prominently in nearly all the anti-theocrat anthropologies, playing the same role that international communism played for right-wing paranoiacs in the 1950s: the puppet master working from the shadows and the hidden hand behind every secular setback.
Like a diehard John Bircher poring over Dwight D. Eisenhower's speeches in search of the Supreme Soviet's marching orders, Rudin scans the utterances of evangelicals and their allies for Reconstructionist language. Did Billy Graham once advise evangelicals to run for public office and take "control" of the various branches for government? Then he must believe, with the Reconstructionists, that "all adversaries must be completely eliminated from positions of authority" and that "to achieve a divine end by any means--including cruelty, deception, and brute force--is justified." Did Antonin Scalia suggest that government "derives its moral authority from God"? Well, he doubtless intended to issue "a legal green light" to theocrats seeking "to destroy all existing political systems . . . and replace them with their own religion-soaked politicalregimes."
Perhaps most religious conservatives, Rudin generously allows, "are unaware of the potent ideology that calls for the dismantling of American democracy . . . and its replacement by an authoritarian Christian commonwealth." But then, of course, most Eisenhower voters were unaware, in the 1950s, that Ike's administration was infiltrated and controlled by Communist agents--and more fool they.
Similarly, Kevin Phillips announces that "for all practical purposes, Pat Robertson is a Christian Reconstructionist"--not because Robertson has ever identified himself as such but because his start-up university bears the sinister sobriquet Regent, an obvious reference to the Rushdoonian notion of Christians as God's viceroys on Earth. Phillips doesn't precisely accuse President Bush of being a Reconstructionist, but he notes that Bush's GOP gets an awful lot of votes from the Mormons--who have created "a de-facto establishment of religion in the inner mountain West"--and that the Bush family "has been close" to the Reverend Sun Myung Moon and his cultish Unification Church. And then there's Bush's habit of encoding "private scriptural invocations" into his speeches. Not only did the president use the biblically loaded phrases "hills to climb" and "seeing the valley below" in his 2004 convention acceptance speech, but he also mentioned the "resurrection of New York City." The resurrection. Clearly something sinister is afoot.
Also, would you be so kind as to point out when and where Huckabee instituted the stoning of adulterers and other aspects of Mosaic law in Arkansas?
I hope you are able to have a good Christmas in spite of all the theocrats running around in your fertile imagination.
Gee, I notice the poster’s home page certainly has no agenda for any particular candidate. It’s stuff like this that leads one to wonder, is it posted for a candidate, against another, or hoping to look so absurd it’s actually meant to backfire?
You spin it the way you want not all who have the title Christian are mainstream.
Some will make you skin craw how they feel about those around them that don’t think like them!
I am not talking about what President Bush, Billy Graham, Antonin Scalia, Tom Delay and many others have also been linked to Christian Reconstructionism—mostly by paranoid, leftist whackos.
This is different brand all togather!
You know the MSM don’t like the Christians right to began with, yet they are all about promoting this man and if he did get the nod how easy it would be to destroy Huck with the trail he is leaving.