Reply #152: Here is just a little of what Biblical/Christian Reconstruction is about:

[Carl Brennan]

Footnote 3: Source 4 - Reason Magazine November 1988 <http://reason.com/9811/col.olson.shtml> "Getting Cozy with Theocrats" by Walter Olson...

Christian Reconstructionism...Among Reconstructionism's highlights, the article cited support for laws "mandating the death penalty for homosexuals and drunkards." The Rev. Rushdoony fired off a letter to the editor complaining that the article had got his followers' views all wrong: They didn't intend to put drunkards to death. Ah, yes, accuracy does count. In a world run by Rushdoony followers, sots would escape capital punishment--which would make them happy exceptions indeed. Those who would face execution include not only gays but a very long list of others: blasphemers, heretics, apostate Christians, people who cursed or struck their parents, females guilty of 'unchastity before marriage,' 'incorrigible' juvenile delinquents, adulterers, and (probably) telephone psychics. And that's to say nothing of murderers and those guilty of raping married women or 'betrothed virgins.'

"...Mainstream outlets like the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post are finally starting to take note of the influence Rushdoony and his followers have exerted for years in American conservative circles...Prominent California philanthropist Howard F. Ahmanson Jr., who has given Rushdoony's operations more than $700,000 over the years..."



http://www.panix.com/~hncl/HectorsJournal/archives/000275.html
Many of you may already be familiar with what Christian Reconstructionism is about, but here's the short version: They believe the vote should only belong to Christians, and that the American government and laws should be explicitly governed by their fundamentalist interpretation of Scripture.
again, from "Onward Christian Soldiers."
......radical ideas must be gently and often indirectly infused into their target constituencies and society at large. The vague claim that God and Jesus want Christians to govern society is certainly more appealing than the bloodthirsty notion of justice as "vengeance" advocated by some of the Reconstructionists. The claim that they do not seek to impose a theocracy from the top down--waiting for a time when a majority will have converted and thus want to live under Biblical Law--is consistent with Reconstructionists' decentralist and anti-state populism, which they often pass off as a form of libertarianism. Even so, there is an inevitable point when the "majority" would impose its will. North bluntly says that one of his first actions would be to "remove legal access to the franchise and to civil offices from those who refuse to become communicant members of Trinitarian churches." Quick to condemn democracy as the idea that the law is whatever the majority says it is, North et al. would be quick to cynically utilize a similar "majority" for a permanent theocratic solution.
from "A Generation of Reconstructionists," <http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v08n1/chrisre2.html> Part 2 of Frederick Clarkson's "Christian Reconstructionism: Theocratic Dominionism Gains Influence" <http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v08n1/chrisrec.html>
To summarize: a principal owner of a major provider of election machines and software has ties to an organization that seeks to advance an ideology of disenfrancisement, tyranny, murder, and expansionism. His firm is providing many of the machines that are supposed to implement our representative democracy (such as it is.) Meanwhile, the ideology spreads in a disorganized, partial, but highly effective way.



This my friends it what happens when Christianity spreads its lovy dovyness.:eyes: