here is another interview with Jeff Sharlet posted by Hissyspit about one week ago:
MSNBC The Rachel Maddow - July 16, 2009: 'Hypocri-C Street'
MORE interview with Jeff Sharlet about "The Family." The scandal revelations "just won't stop, they won't let us take a break, will they?" says Sharlet.
Sharlet speaks with Rachel about the new accusations that marital infidelity took place within the C Street house. Soon-to-be-ex-wife of Congressman Chip Pickering is suing "the other woman" and has alleged that "some of the wrongful conduct on the part of" Pickering's mistress "occurred and accrued in the 1st Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, as well as Washington D.C. at the C Street complex,"... as in the building, "the church."
Sen. John Ensign and South Carolina Gov. Sanford are linked to the residence. RACHEL: "Another member of The Family who lived at C Street, Nevada Sen. John Ensign, as you know, had an affair with a campaign staffer whose husband he also employed. Beyond the affair, what is now emerging is a big fat complicated money trail of payments to the mistress and to her family from Ensign and Ensign's family, and that's the part where creepy starts to make googly eyes at criminal.
"... There's a level when you are at the C Street house, It's almost like a fundamentalist frat house," says Sharlet. The members of "The Family sees their oath to one another as more important than their accountability to the public."
"In the core of The Family, they actually reject the idea of morality for their members. They believe that morality is a secular construct, that morality is something made by man for little people like us, and that if you are part of God's chosen, as we've been talking about - what The Family believes that they are the sort of New Chosen by God - morality, ethics, these things don't apply to you. That doesn't mean that they endorse adultery, it just means that they're not paying attention as much to it. And then you combine that to a, frankly, fairly misogynist viewpoint. They subscribe to an idea of male headship. In some of their documents, Doug Coe, the leader of the group, was actually advising another member on what to do with his wife, who the member felt was demonically possessed, and Doug Coe said that's quite possible. The symptoms, were, and there's just no way to make this sound respectable, the symptoms were that the woman was complaining that she wasn't sexually satisfied by her husband. That was, to them, a symptom of demonic possession. I mean, it sounds crazy and it would be silly, if it weren't happening right in the middle of Washington with these men who are so powerful - who are congressmen and then lobbyists in this revolving door that seems to be facilitated by The Family."
link to youtube video posted by Hissyspit:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=385&topic_id=338358'
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