Fred Thompson's Christian Nationalist Pander

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Fred Thompson's Christian Nationalist Pander
By Frederick Clarkson Tue Jun 05, 2007 at 10:16:14 PM EST

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When prospective GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson auditioned at a recent meeting of the secretive, far right Council for National Policy, he probably did not have to wonder which buttons to push. The CNP has, since 1981, been a key conservative movement leadership network, dominated by the religious right. As a man who entered electoral politics as moderate, he has been at some pains to establish his conservatie bona fides. And these days if you want to show the religious right that you are one of them, one of the things you do is to let them know you share their Christian nationalism. Thompson, whose unofficial campaign is on a fast track, was quick to make a transcript of his remarks available to The National Review Online.

Our founders established an independent federal judiciary to decide cases, not social policy. Yet more and more that is exactly what it is doing. Roe v. Wade is a classic example. And nowhere is it more apparent than with regard to the issue of church and state.
Many federal judges seem intent on eliminating God from the public schools and the public square in ways that would astound our founding fathers. We never know when a five to four Supreme Court decision will uphold them. They ignore the fact that the founders were protecting the church from the state and not the other way around.

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...Thompson was to be introduced at the CNP meeting by none other than Richard Land, a leader in the fundamentalist cabal running the Southern Baptist Convention -- who is now positioning himself as moderate.

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http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/6/5/221614/8213

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... Thompson’s misguided assertions probably went over well with the theocrats at the CNP. That secretive group has been plotting behind closed doors since 1981 to turn our nation into a fundamentalist theocracy.

News reports indicated that Thompson was to be introduced at the May 12 CNP meeting at the Ritz Carlton in Tysons Corner, Va., a suburb of Washington, D.C., by none other than Richard Land, chief lobbyist of the tax-exempt Southern Baptist Convention. Land and other fundamentalist leaders are desperately searching for a GOP candidate who can successfully carry the Religious Right flag into the battle in 2008.

Land thinks Thompson is the chosen one, calling him a “southern-fried Reagan.” Unfortunately, Land’s erstwhile colleague, James Dobson of Focus on the Family, has declared that Thompson is “not a Christian,” which complicates any immediate coronation. Dobson seems to be tilting toward former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who confessed on Dobson’s show to moral failings in his marriage and repented of them.

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http://blog.au.org/2007/05/17/law-error-fred-thompson-misunderstands-high-courts-churchstate-rulings/