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A look inside the wacky world of Bob Jones University
BoJo & the Council for National Policy
According to the National Education Association, one organization stands out as
"the principal coordinating body -- and funding mechanism -- for political projects of
religious conservatives." It's "a highly secretive coalition which represents the
entire
spectrum of New Right corporate executives, TV preachers and former high ranking
government and military leaders." You may never have heard of it -- there is no
website, and its membership, meetings, and policies are confidential. Whatever your
opinion of Hillary Clinton, she was right about this: There is a "vast right-wing
conspiracy," and its name is the Council for National Policy ("CNP").
Founded in 1981 by BoJo alumnus Tim LaHaye (Left Behind author and co-founder
of the Moral Majority) and backed by several billionaires, including Texans Nelson
Bunker Hunt and T. Cullen Davis (both John Birch Society members), CNP's 500 or
so members constitute "a virtual who's who of the Hard Right." Examples in no
particular order are listed below:
Howard Phillips in CNP speech as quoted here
"There is really only one sound, overriding purpose for political participation, and
that
is to fulfill our Biblically mandated office to be elders in the gates, even as we are
mindful that civil government represents only one area of governance with God's
Kingdom...Yes, there IS a special role for CIVIL government. As spelled out in the
Book of Romans -- it is to be a ministry of justice and a terror to evildoers. I do not
propose that civil government can ever be an instrument of salvation. That is a
matter of grace and faith."
Bob Jones III
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BoJos one and all
Tim LaHaye
Beverly LaHaye
Edwin Meese
Former U. S. Attorney General
Donald L. Folkers
L. L. Bean
Gary Bauer
Family Research Council; Presidential Candidate
Richard "Dick" Armey
Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Rep.
Phyllis Schafly
Eagle Forum
Tommy Thompson
Secretary of Health & Human Services
Richard Viguerie
Fund-Raiser for right-wing causes
John K. Singlaub
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Of Iran-Contra fame
Oliver North
Tom DeLay
Majority Whip, U.S. House of Rep.
Pat Robertson
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Televangelists
Jerry Falwell
Nelson Bunker Hunt
Billionaire; once gave $1 million to the Moral Majority
Trent Lott
Senate Republican Minority Leader
Richard DeVos
Amway Corp.
Paige Patterson
Engineered fundamentalist take-over of Southern Baptist Convention
John Belk
Belk's Department Stores
Dan Burton
Congressman who repeatedly investigated Clinton
Donald Wildmon
American Family Association
Richard Schoff
Lincoln Log Homes; reputed former KKK leader in Indiana
Howard Phillips
Presidential candidate, U. S. Taxpayers Party
D. James Kennedy
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"Christian nation" theocracy zealots
R. J. Rushdoony
"I predict that one day before the end of this century the Council [for National
Policy]
will be so influential that no President, regardless of party or philosophy, will be
able
to ignore us or our concerns or shut us out of the highest levels of government." [In
October, 1999 George W. Bush addressed the CNP. His campaign refused to
released the text of his remarks.]
Woody Jenkins (later elected to Congress) to Newsweek in 1981
In addition to the numerous high-level Republicans who hold CNP membership, the
organization's Executive Director, Morton C. Blackwell, is himself a member of the
Republican National Committee. For an idea of how effective the CNP has been at
getting its political appointees named to high office in Republican administrations,
read this.
CNP not only coordinates the political strategies of various religious right groups, it
also serves as a conduit for ultra-conservative cash. The Heritage Foundation, Free
Congress Foundation, Christian Voice, Concerned Women for America, Eagle
Forum, Family Research Council, Christian Coalition, Federalist Society, Focus on
the Family, and many others all work with and through CNP, channeling and
receiving money according the CNP's coordinated and secretive political agenda. Not
surprisingly, many of these groups' leaders maintain membership in CNP.
Consider this: George W. Bush is president because the Supreme Court voted along
party-lines, led by Justice Antonin Scalia. At least two Justices, Scalia and Thomas,
are members of the Federalist Society, a CNP-affiliated group. In one of his first
policy decisions after taking office, Bush announced he would end the American Bar
Association's role in pre- screening federal judicial nominees. Prospective judges will
now be screened by the Federalist Society. I believe the Supreme Court majority
installed Bush, not necessarily as a power-grab for the presidency, but as a power-
grab for their own judicial branch -- to insure that the next round of federal judges
appointed to the bench will be arch-conservatives.
The BoJo - Moonie - Scientology Connection
In 1995 Parents Involved in Education held a news conference in Washington, D.C.
on the issue of children, schools, and psychiatric drugs such as Ritalin. This media
event was organized by Carolyn Steinke, who sits on the board of the Citizens
Council for Human Rights, an admittedly Scientology-affiliated group. That same
year, Steinke received a CCHR award.
Participants in Steinke's news conference included Beverly LaHaye's Concerned
Women for America, Phyllis Scafly's the Eagle Forum, Gary Bauer's Family
Research Council, and the Rutherford Institute among others. These groups are all
affiliated with CNP and their leaders also hold CNP membership. As does Bob Jones
III.
Has Jones disavowed these Scientology-mongers and withdrawn from CNP? No.
Has Jones repudiated Beverly LaHaye as he has, for example, repudiated gay
alumni? No. Has Jones threatened to have LaHaye arrested if she returns to the
BoJo campus in spite of the school's warnings that alumni who make common cause
with cults are unwelcome? There is no indication that he has.
Turning now to Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, the Columbia
Journalism Review reports that Dr. Robert Grant has accepted Moonie money for his
American Freedom Coalition. In fact, it is reported that the AFC is a joint venture
between Grant and the Unification Church. Moon is also believed to have bailed out
Jerry Falwell's Liberty University in the early 90's when the school was millions in
debt. Even BoJo's most prominent alumni, Tim and Beverly LaHaye, have taken
Moonie money and served as Moon functionaries according to this Christian website.
Grant, Falwell, and the LaHayes are CNP members. And so is Bob III.
Bob Jones, Jr. labeled Falwell "the most dangerous man in America" and claimed
that his Moral Majority, by including Catholics, Mormons and Jews, would lead to the
"one world church of Antichrist." (An Island in the Lake of Fire, p.108). But Bob III
has
not let this dissuade him from joining Falwell in the CNP -- an organization composed
of Catholics, Jews, Mormons, and supporters of Scientology and the Moonies.
The justification given for BoJo's interracial dating ban, before it was eliminated,
was
that racial mixing could lead eventually to a one-world government of the antichrist.
Yet Jones doesn't seem to realize that the CNP's agenda and its wacko clique of
Christian theocrats, Republican plutocrats, military elite, and ultra-conservative
billionaires is much more likely to bring that about than is interracial marriage. Nor
is
he apparently concerned that his association with the CNP and with Scientology and
Moonie sympathizers might appear hypocritical to those who have heard him
castigate others because of their religious associations, political beliefs, sexual
orientation, or other peccadilloes.
Further reading: >>>Hot linques<<<
Council for National Policy Unofficial Information Page
CNP Member Profiles
Group Watch: Council for National Policy
Council for National Policy: Background
Godly Men with a Dominionist Agenda
Bad Alliances in Defense of Christian Culture
Alliances between Evangelicals & Moonies
John Birch Society & the CNP
A senior member of the vast right-wing conspiracy speaks candidly
Council for National Policy behind Clinton investigations, impeachment
Yet another page exposing the CNP's agenda
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