wilbill
That Old Time Religion
Monday night's World News Tonight from ABC News had an interesting story on the Christian Exodus movement. These folks are trying to move enough of their believers into South Carolina to take over the state government and run it the way they think the Constitution says it should be run. They're even willing to consider secession. From their website...
"Phase 1" of their plan involves moving 2500 families into the Greenville, SC area by 2008. So far they've moved 80 families in. They'll need about 80 per month to realize their goal.
I'm reminded of a thread we had some time ago about a Libertarian group trying to do basically the same thing (take over local government) in a small town in New England.
There were a lot of groups, religious and political, in the 19th century US who tried to establish their vision of utopia with varying degrees of success, but I can't think of very many such efforts more recently.
Personally I'd prefer they not take over South Carolina. I love Charleston, but wouldn't want to visit if I couldn't get a drink or two while I'm there.
They've picked South Carolina believing that a large number of current residents agree with their goals - probably a correct assumption depending on how you define "large".ChristianExodus.org is moving thousands of Christians to South Carolina to reestablish constitutionally limited government founded upon Christian principles. This includes the return to South Carolina of all "powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States." It is evident that the U.S. Constitution has been abandoned under our current federal system, and the efforts of Christian activism to restore our Godly republic have proven futile over the past three decades. The time has come for Christian Constitutionalists to protect our American principles in a State like South Carolina by interposing the State's sovereign authority retained under the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
THE PROBLEM
Christians have actively tried to return the United States to their moral foundations for more than 30 years. We now have a professing Christian president, a Republican Congress and a Republican Supreme Court. Yet consider this:
Abortion continues against the wishes of many States
Sodomite and lesbian "marriage" is now legal in Massachusetts (and coming soon to a neighborhood near you)
Children who pray in public schools are subject to prosecution
Our schools continue to teach the discredited theory of Darwinian evolution
The Bible is still not welcome in schools except under unconstitutional FEDERAL guidelines
The 10 Commandments remain banned from public display
Sodomy is now legal AND celebrated as "diversity" rather than condemned as perversion
Preaching Christianity will soon be outlawed as "hate speech"
Fathers are denied equal rights under law in cases of child custody
Our right to keep and bear arms continues to be INFRINGED
Private homes are now subject to arbitrary government seizure
Attempts at reform have proven futile. Future elections will not stop the above atrocities, but rather will lead us down an even more deadly path because both national parties routinely disobey the U.S. Constitution.
"Phase 1" of their plan involves moving 2500 families into the Greenville, SC area by 2008. So far they've moved 80 families in. They'll need about 80 per month to realize their goal.
I'm reminded of a thread we had some time ago about a Libertarian group trying to do basically the same thing (take over local government) in a small town in New England.
There were a lot of groups, religious and political, in the 19th century US who tried to establish their vision of utopia with varying degrees of success, but I can't think of very many such efforts more recently.
Personally I'd prefer they not take over South Carolina. I love Charleston, but wouldn't want to visit if I couldn't get a drink or two while I'm there.