Who would Jesus vote for? Meet Sam Brownback
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/9178374/gods_senator/
[excerpt]
Nobody in this little church just off Times Square in Manhattan thinks of
themselves as political. They're spiritual -- actors and athletes and
pretty young things who believe that every word of the Bible is inerrant
dictation from God. They look down from the balcony of the Morning Star,
swaying and smiling at the screen that tells them how to sing along.
Nail-pierced hands, a wounded side. This is love, this is love! But on this
evening in January, politics and all its worldly machinations have entered
their church. Sitting in the darkness of the front row is Sam Brownback,
the Republican senator from Kansas. And hunched over on the stage in a red
leather chair is an old man named Harald Bredesen, who has come to anoint
Brownback as the Christian right's next candidate for president.
Over the last six decades, Bredesen has prayed with so many presidents and
prime ministers and kings that he can barely remember their names. He's the
spiritual father of Pat Robertson, the man behind the preacher's vast media
empire. He was one of three pastors who laid hands on Ronald Reagan in 1970
and heard the Pasadena Prophecy: the moment when God told Reagan that he
would one day occupy the White House. And he recently dispatched one of his
proteges to remind George W. Bush of the divine will -- and evangelical
power -- behind his presidency.
Tonight, Bredesen has come to breathe that power into Brownback's
presidential campaign. . .
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The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
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American Theocrats - Past and Present
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The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
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take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
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