On 11/6/08, Aurora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Howard F. Ahmanson Jr: During a 1985 interview with the Orange County > Register, Ahmanson summarized his political agenda: "My goal is the total > integration of biblical law into our lives." - - Max Blumenthal > > At *TUYA <http://tu-ya.blogspot.com/>*** - With Videos added: *Who Is The > Mystery Man Behind Cal's Prop 8? Who else funded > it?*<http://tu-ya.blogspot.com/2008/11/who-is-mystery-man-behind-cals-prop-8.html>("Spiritual > Warfare") > Max Blumenthal <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal> *Huffington > Post* > > Posted November 4, 2008 | 02:14 AM (EST) > > Who Is The Mystery Man Behind Prop > 8?<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/who-is-the-mystery-man-be_b_140801.html> > > Who is funding California's Prop 8, the country's most controversial ballot > measure? The Mormons' donations are well known, and are a source of outrage > among the church's more moderate elements. But little attention has been > focused on two of the proposition's biggest individual donors: Elsa > Broekhuizen, the mother of Blackwater founder Erik Prince, and Howard F. > Ahmanson Jr., the reclusive theocratic millionaire who inherited $300 > million from his philanthropist father at age 18. > > When I profiled Ahmanson in a 2004 > article<http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/01/06/ahmanson/index.html>for > Salon.com, I became the first journalist in 20 years to interview him. > Yesterday I resurrected my reporting for The Daily > Beast,<http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-11-03/the-man-behind-proposition-8/>updating > it to cover Ahmanson's recent machinations, particularly his role > in Prop 8. As I wrote, Ahmanson few Americans have heard of Ahmanson -- and > that's the way he likes it. His extreme politics and eccentric personality > reveal the draconian underside of a ballot measure billed by its proponents > as "pro-family." > > During a 1985 interview with the Orange County Register, Ahmanson > summarized his political agenda: "My goal is the total integration of > biblical law into our lives." > > Though Ahmanson's rhetoric has softened over the years, his politics are > derived from the radical Christian Reconstructionist theology of R.J. > Rushdoony, a far-right theologian who advocated replacing the US > Constitution with biblical law. "God's government prevails," Rushdoony > wrote, "and His alternatives are clear-cut: either men and nations obey His > laws, or God invokes the death penalty against them." Those eligible on > Rushdoony's long list for execution included disobedient children, unchaste > women, apostates, blasphemers, practitioners of witchcraft, astrologers, > adulterers, and, of course, anyone who engaged in "sodomy or homosexuality." > > Rushdoony was the father Ahmanson never had, bringing him to radical > right-wing Christianity not long after the anxiety-ridden, > Tourette's-afflicted scion of wealth checked out of the Menninger Clinic. > Ahmanson bankrolled Rushdoony's religious empire; in return, Rushdoony made > Ahmanson a board member of his think tank, Chalcedon, which to this day > advocates theocratic revolution in the United States. Ahmanson and his wife > were at Rushdoony's bedside when he died in 2001. > > (Read the full story on Ahmanson > here<http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-11-03/the-man-behind-proposition-8/2/> > ). > > My article is accompanied at the Daily Beast by a new video by Michael > Wilson, creator of the brilliant documentary, Silhouette > City.<http://www.silhouettecity.com/>Wilson also co-produced my video > documentary about Sarah Palin's belief in > spiritual warfare, "In The Land Of Queen > Esther."<http://maxblumenthal.com/2008/10/in-the-land-of-queen-esther-the-youtube-version/> > > On November 2, Wilson went to San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium to cover "The > Call," <http://www.thecall.com/> an 80,000-strong Pentecostal rally for > Prop 8. The Call organizer, Lou Engle, gathered his troops together for > several days of fasting and prayer to stop what he called the "sexual > insanity" of Prop 8 opponents. The rally culminated with Engle imploring his > fervent crowd to become martyrs, to be willing to lay down their lives for > the cause. > > (Click > here<http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-11-03/the-man-behind-proposition-8/>to > see Wilson's video.) > > The defeat of Prop 8 would be a nightmare for the Christian right. As Tony > Perkins of the Family Research Council said of the ballot measure, "It's > more important than the presidential election... We will not survive [as a > nation] if we lose the institution of marriage." > > But behind the Christian right's panicked pleas for preserving "traditional > marriage" lies a more deep-seated fear. California's rejection of Prop 8 > would represent a decisive repudiation of the theocratic fantasy outlined by > Rushdoony and mainstreamed by Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, Lou Engle and > countless evangelical minions. Ahmanson has spent what he could to keep his > mentor's dream alive, but the movement's nightmare may arrive nonetheless. > *Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no > right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of > rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities."* > > *TABLED LIST OF DONORS IN SUPPORT OF CAL'S PROP 8 FROM > TIPS-Q<http://tu-ya.blogspot.com/2008/11/who-is-mystery-man-behind-cals-prop-8.html> > * > > > *"Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, > suppress minorities and still remain democratic."* > ** > *The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.* > -- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn > > *Any law which violates the indefeasible rights of man is essentially > unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.* > Maximilien Robespierre > > *In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.* > Mahatma Gandhi > > *It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed > by a majority.* > Lord Acton > >
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