McClintock Advisor Looks to Bible as Basis for Law

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According to an LA Times Article:

Quote:

John Stoos, a key advisor in the gubernatorial campaign of Republican state Sen. Tom McClintock, has a dream:

"I dream of the day when a strong Christian majority is elected to a city council somewhere in America. This council could then pass a resolution declaring that abortion is now illegal in their city," Stoos wrote this year in a conservative religious journal.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-stoos30sep30,1,3369929.story?coll=la-headlines-california

This is followed by other tidbits, such as suggesting Jews would not be comfortable in a Christian America.

Who is this Chalcedon Group?

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1. Found these web sites

http://www.chalcedon.edu/

Chalcedon Foundation

Based in Vallecito, California, this think tank promotes “Christian Reconstructionism,” the belief that all laws should be based on biblical law. Among the past accomplishments it touts are the conversion of influential Jewish leaders to Christianity and regular financing of right-wing causes. Its founder, Rousas John Rushdoony, reportedly advocated the death penalty for “practicing homosexuals.”

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=4431

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2. How big/influential are they?

Sounds pretty scary. How many people really sign on to "Christian Reconstructionism?". Any really influential (in the * cabinet)?

Are they a fringe cult group, or have they obtained some power in the right wing?

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3. Very scary -- it ties in with electronic voting

http://www.talion.com/election-machines.html

Vested interests: ES&S was given its grubstake (while operating under the name American Information Systems) in 1984 when the billionaire Ahmanson family injected enough cash to get ahold of a 68 percent ownership. This wealthy family has been instrumental in making the Republican Party take a hard right turn — pouring money into conservative Christian candidates and right-wing agendas.

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Howard Ahmanson, a savings and loan heir long involved with Christian Reconstructionisn, a faction of the Religious Right at its most extreme. Identified with Rousas J. Rushdooney's Chalcedon Foundation, Christian Reconstructionism takes the extreme view that conservative Christians should take "dominion" over U.S. society and replace democracy with theocracy… The Ahmanson family donated $1.5 million to the Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture's research and publicity program to "unseat not just Darwinism but also Darwinism's cultural legacy"