For GodÂ’s Sake: PAUL KRUGMAN - And More by PAUL KRUGMAN - THE NEW YORK TIMES Friday Apr 13th, 2007 KRUGMAN: The infiltration of the federal government by large numbers of people seeking to impose a religious agenda is one of the most important stories of the last six years.
THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AND MORE --> OP-ED COLUMNIST For God’s Sake By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: April 13, 2007 In 1981, Gary North, a leader of the Christian Reconstructionist movement — the openly theocratic wing of the Christian right — suggested that the movement could achieve power by stealth. “Christians must begin to organize politically within the present party structure,” he wrote, “and they must begin to infiltrate the existing institutional order.” Today, Regent University, founded by the televangelist Pat Robertson to provide “Christian leadership to change the world,” boasts that it has 150 graduates working in the Bush administration. Unfortunately for the image of the school, where Mr. Robertson is chancellor and president, the most famous of those graduates is Monica Goodling, a product of the university’s law school. She’s the former top aide to Alberto Gonzales who appears central to the scandal of the fired U.S. attorneys and has declared that she will take the Fifth rather than testify to Congress on the matter. The infiltration of the federal government by large numbers of people seeking to impose a religious agenda — which is very different from simply being people of faith — is one of the most important stories of the last six years. It’s also a story that tends to go underreported, perhaps because journalists are afraid of sounding like conspiracy theorists. But this conspiracy is no theory. The official platform of the Texas Republican Party pledges to “dispel the myth of the separation of church and state.” And the Texas Republicans now running the country are doing their best to fulfill that pledge. . . And there’s another thing most reporting fails to convey: the sheer extremism of these people. You see, Regent isn’t a religious university the way Loyola or Yeshiva are religious universities. It’s run by someone whose first reaction to 9/11 was to brand it God’s punishment for America’s sins. . . Next week Rudy Giuliani will be speaking at Regent’s Executive Leadership Series. --MORE-- http://mparent7777-3.blogspot.com/2007/04/for-gods-sake-paul-krugman.html Labels: 'Christian' Right, attorneys, Bush, Giuliani, government, News, Pat Robertson, Paul Krugman, Politics, religion, Republicans Pentagon opens civilian claim files against military: Chilling accounts of fatalities Related ACLU Releases Files on Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq: See story and link to database following this story. http://mparent7777-3.blogspot.com/2007/04/pentagon-opens-civilian-claim-files.html Where You Want This Killin' Done? http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/04/where-you-want-this-killin-done.html ROVE KEPT DELETING EMAILS AFTER FITZGERALD SAID DON'T http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/04/rove-kept-deleting-emails-after.html How an ex-Mossad chief, a German uberspy, and a gaggle of top-dollar GOP lobbyists helped Kurdistan snag 15 tons of $100 bills http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-ex-mossad-chief-german-uberspy-and.html White House Email and Espionage http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/04/white-house-email-and-espionage.html ISRAEL ATTEMPTS TO SILENCE HIZBOLLAH MEN THAT CAPTURED ISRAELI SOLDIERS INSIDE LEBANON http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/04/israel-attempts-to-silence-hizbollah.html Stop melding anti-Zionism and anti-semitism http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/1205 VIDEO- Israeli Army demolishes Palestinian homes in South Hebron http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/04/video-israeli-army-demolishes.html Report: “68 women gave birth on checkpoints, 33 infants and 4 women died” http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/04/report-68-women-gave-birth-on.html Medical experiments on Palestinians in Israeli prisons up 15% http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/1197 N.J. Governor Critical After SUV Crash http://mparent7777-3.blogspot.com/2007/04/nj-governor-critical-after-suv-crash.html And More http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/ http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/ http://mparent7777-3.blogspot.com/ http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/blog/38 --------------------------------- Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail
