Christian Exodus has 10-year goal for state power

[highplainsdem]

http://greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051016/NEWS01/510160323/1004


Christian Exodus has 10-year goal for state power

Posted Sunday, October 16, 2005 - 6:00 am

By Dan Hoover
STAFF WRITER


Part strategy session, part pep rally and part coming-out party, Christian Exodus met in the Upstate this weekend with more enthusiasm than numbers.

One speaker suggested gunfire if government officials seek to confiscate personal firearms. Another said public education has taught generations of schoolchildren to hate America, and founder Cory Burnell said property ownership would be required for the "privilege" of voting.

Burnell said that with national power, Christian Exodus would seek to determine whether the 14th, 16th and 17th amendments to the U.S. Constitution were "ratified properly, and if not, put them up for proper ratification."

Those amendments respectively guaranteed citizenship, the vote and civil rights for freed slaves; instituted the income tax; and began popular election of the U.S. Senate.

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The good news from the article is that there aren't very many people in this movement so far.

The bad news, as always, is that there are people that loony in this country.

According to the article, one of the T-shirts they were selling had the slogan "Proud Southern Christian" above a Christian symbol of a fish encompassing a Confederate battle flag. I guess the Bush Fish wasn't a strong enough symbol for them...

[HereSince1628]

1. Confederate Restorationists hiding out as Christians?

[Whoa_Nelly]

12. Those people who would want to secede under the guise of Xtianity

Are Christian Reconstructionists. There's been a large group of these people for some time, many who have had access to the WH and have looked to find their place within the Xtian Right to push their agenda.

Cory Burnell is about as homophobic as Phelps. Naturally, he believes sexual orientation is a choice (hmmmm....so did he choose heterosexuality over his same-sex attraction desires???)

There's a ton of info through google using these keywords:

christian reconstructionists

christian reconstructionists "christian exodus"

christian exodus "cory burnell"

I hope that someday SOON this fundie movement with the intent to usurp, control and possess our nation's constitution and amendment rights gets outed for the scumbags they are, and are figuratively beaten into the ground and left for dead. But, I personally think that it's going to be many years more that due to the Dumbing Down of America and the victim mentality of people allowing themselves to be held hostage to fear, this Xtian Fundamentalism will continue to undermine separation of church and state.

[merwin]

23. This was featured on the Daily Show a few weeks back.

The guy's a complete nutcase :-)

[oneighty]

2. Note to those

Christians joining the exodus to South Carolina.

PLEASE BRING MONEY.

180

[notadmblnd]

6. and another note....

buy beachfront property. And when hurricane Jesus comes blowing through....forget you know the rest of US.

[Coastie for Truth]

7. Good!

Since we changed the Red Cross logo to a "Red Crystal" - they probably won't let us into their "state."

(See avatar for the new "Red Cross" logo)

[supernova]

3. Christianity as cult

:crazy:

And I'm very skeptical that the local SC'ilians will accept an outside takever of their homeland, even if these people do call themselves
"christians."

[MzShellG]

14. There would be a revolt..

Or a civil war. I will not be forced out.

[supernova]

18. I'm sure you natives would

give them Hell if they were to try to design their own country. ;-)

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. They want to question whether slaves should have got the vote?

Do they come with pointy white hoods? Isn't that the last group who were quite so open in their racism?

[pinniped]

5. They must have watched the "Birth of a Nation" documentary...

on AMC Friday night.

[MzShellG]

16. These are the same type

Who burn crosses and hang people in the name of 'God'. Wonder what God they worship?

[Bassic]

8. Useless freaks.

They need to be fucking arrested and sent to mental hospitals for care of indeterminate duration.

[RedRocco]

9. Greenville county must be one of their 2 target counties

Simpsonville is in Greenville county. we live in Piedmont, on the Greenville side of the river, and this disturbs me on many levels. Theres enough bible-thumping, intolerant, southern baptists here that their agenda actually has a chance

[CatholicEdHead]

10. Of course only 5 families have moved out to SC

in another link I saw on DU a few days ago. They do not have enough for a gated community much less their own "country".

[leesa]

11. I'm sorry, but why don't these people leave this country if they hate it

so much? They will be fighting with each other within minutes of forming their "country". They are simply intolerant people and they won't tolerate each other either.

[wordout]

26. They're probably on the no-fly list

[kineneb]

13. Hey, we could sell them some prime ocean-front property

in Miss. or LousA. (LA here means Los Angeles, to avoid confusion). Preferably some that is below sea level, if you know what I mean...

[Whoa_Nelly]

21. L.A. is Los Angeles

LA is Louisiana...those cute little periods help me out each time in reading articles. Sometimes though, some reporters fail to discriminate in this way, and I have to go searching for further info to determine the area in question.

You are correct in making an attempt to discriminate between Los Angeles and Loiusiana...now, if only the media would use those damn little dots to help us all out :)

[DBoon]

22. and in L.A.

there might be some prime property on top of a major earthquake fault they would be interested.

[QC]

15. Christian Exodus, like Free Republic, is based in California. n/t

[joefree1]

17. Are they associated with the Dominionist?

These "Christian Exodus" sound like a joke, however the Dominionist are a very real threat to our constitution. See this article:

To rouse themselves, they kick off the festivities with "Soldiers of the Cross, Arise," the bloodthirstiest tune in all of Christendom: "Seize your armor, gird it on/Now the battle will be won/Soon, your enemies all slain/Crowns of glory you shall gain."

Meet the Dominionists -- biblical literalists who believe God has called them to take over the U.S. government.

'Our job is to reclaim America for Christ, whatever the cost.'
more ...
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7235393?&rnd=1114275910240&has-player=unknown



http://www.ediablo.com/FightFascism.html

[tnlefty]

19. Thanks for the link to the Rolling Stone article.

I must finish reading it and then pass it around. Thanks again.

[FVZA_Colonel]

24. Oh... dear God

These people want to destroy the United States and raise up the Republic of Gilead.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. Some choice quotes from the article about dominionists

"Activists at the conference pose for photographs beside the rock and have circulated a petition urging President Bush to appoint Moore -- who once penned an opinion calling for the state to execute "practicing homosexuals" -- to the U.S. Supreme Court."

"Cass also presents another small-town activist, Kevin McCoy, with a Salt and Light Award for leading a successful campaign to shut down an anti-bullying program in West Virginia schools."

"While the dominionists rely on grass-roots activists to fight their battles, they are backed by some of America's richest entrepreneurs. Amway founder Rich DeVos, a Kennedy ally who's the leading Republican contender for governor of Michigan, has tossed more than $5 million into the collection plate. Jean Case, wife of former AOL chief Steve Case -- whose fortune was made largely on sex-chat rooms -- has donated $8 million. And Tom Monaghan, founder of Domino's Pizza, is a major source of cash for Focus on the Family, a megaministry working with Kennedy to eliminate all public schools."

"Speaking to the group, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay -- a winner of Kennedy's Distinguished Christian Statesman Award -- called Bush's faith-based initiatives "a great opportunity to bring God back into the public institutions of our country.""

[dusty64]

33. Yeah and they all

seem to control the top secret and non verifiable "voting" machines, coincidence?

[bluestateguy]

20. If they all move to South Carolina, then let 'em do it

The Christofascists can have SC, thus diminishing their hold on the other 49 states.

[FVZA_Colonel]

25. Isn't one of their "party platforms" that if they can't turn America into

a theocratic state, they will secede from the Union? I just find it very funny that in light of this they had chosen SC, as secession didn't exactly work out too well for that state the last time they tried it.

[GreenInNC]

27. Jail

They can have South Carolina. Any state that has the audacity to throw me in jail, not just once but twice, I just don't have any use for.

[ngGale]

30. LOL...but SC has been...

throwing people in jail for years. I think they invented 'speed traps' on the way to the beach to catch we NC people.
I can't see them fitting in with the 'in crowd.'

:hi:

[GreenInNC]

31. McBee

McBee, SC is the worst but neither one of mine is for speeding. One was for protesting at Ft. Jackson and the second time was at the Savannah River nuke site.

[NVMojo]

29. can we show them the door??

[northzax]

32. good luck with that, folks

enjoy your hell hole of a pseudo-theocracy. Maybe the rest of us will do ourselves a favour and not bother fighting to keep you this time.

by the way, anyone anyone who says the Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol of heritage, and not a hate symbol, should be fighting tool and nail to rip it out of these people's hands. They're using your heritage to preach hate, what are YOU going to do about it? otherwise, don't complain when I call it a hate symbol.