Reply #12: The May Harper's has an excellent article related to this:

[callous taoboy]

There is a mega-church in Colorado Springs, CO whose members are called "New Lifers." The air force academy in Colorado Springs feeds right into this mega-church. These folks are drawing the battle lines, people. If you live in a large city you are evil. Boys are given purity rings to signify virginity until marriage. The pastor, Pastor Ted, blends economic theory with religion so that within the church there are many different cell groups you can belong to: anti-abortion cells, anti-gay cells etc. Something for everyone. Pastor Ted would be the CEO and he has a strict heirarchy of team leaders and then people under them and so forth. New Lifers are programmed at this site, then are dispatched throughout the country to organize New Life churches. Pastor Ted talks to * or one of his aides every
Monday. It was a fascinating glimpse into one of the scariest movements on the planet.