God and Country

[GOPFighter]

This article in the New Yorker is guaranteed to ruin your day! A friend at work subscribes and said he about puked after just a few paragraphs. He's no atheist, but he hates Republicans.

http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/050627fa_fact

Patrick Henry is a Christian college, though it is not affiliated with any denomination, and it gives students guidelines on “glorifying God with their appearance.” During class hours, the college enforces a “business casual” dress code designed to prepare the students for office life—especially for offices in Washington, D.C., fifty miles to the east, where almost all the students have internships, with Republican politicians or in conservative think tanks...

...eighty-five per cent of the students at Patrick Henry homeschooled... Homeschoolers are not the most obvious raw material for a college whose main mission, since its founding, five years ago, has been to train a new generation of Christian politicians. Politics, after all, is the most social of professions, and many students arrive at Patrick Henry having never shared a classroom with anyone other than their siblings. In conservative circles, however, homeschoolers are considered something of an élite, rough around the edges but pure—in their focus, capacity for work, and ideological clarity—a view that helps explain why the Republican establishment has placed its support behind Patrick Henry, and why so many conservative politicians are hiring its graduates...

Of the school’s sixty-one graduates through the class of 2004, two have jobs in the White House; six are on the staffs of conservative members of Congress; eight are in federal agencies; and one helps Senator Rick Santorum, of Pennsylvania, and his wife, Karen, homeschool their six children. Two are at the F.B.I., and another worked for the Coalition Provisional Authority, in Iraq. Last year, the college began offering a major in strategic intelligence; the students learn the history of covert operations and take internships that allow them to graduate with a security clearance.

This overtly religious college is intent on training religious fanatics and placing them in important positions throughout the government. These are the people who will be making policy decisions in the not too distant future.

[ResistTheCoup]

1. Thanks for the link

It's depressing but something that people need to know. Most Americans don't have a clue that the religious right has hijacked the country.

www.positiveblasphemy.blogspot.com

[fshrink]

2. They also should be trained

in black ops such as causing as much destruction as possible to the evil countries. OBL should get a tenure at that training camp.

[beam me up scottie]

3. Almost time for the

Amerikkkan Taliban to assume complete control of the country.
This is how it will go down.

[Kolesar]

4. The ultimate right wing echo chamber

Indoctrinate the children with irrational dogmatic training and isolate them from the dozens of classmates and families that might broaden their experience in the world.

[YankeyMCC]

5. you're right

it did ruin my day.

Yes, yes, this should be no surprise but still does crap for the mood when to see this stuff.

[Gelliebeans]

6. Thanks

now I feel so much better :puke:

[really annoyed]

7. Saw Them On C-SPAN 3

A conservative Christian homeschooling group was talking about sending these kids to Patrick Henry, then to Liberty University (Jerry Falwell) law school - in hopes of grooming them for the "fight" against us lefties. :eyes:

They also claim that Patrick Henry students have SAT scores that rival students at Oxford.

[onager]

8. They mean Oxford, Mississippi...

:hi:

[progressoid]

9. "but pure—in their focus, capacity for work, and ideological clarity"

That's awfully scary.