Ode To the Church Lady - Courtesy of "The Family" . . .

Author/journalist Jeff Sharlet sums up what the shadowy religious Washington, D.C. "C" Street House and "The Family" are all about:

But David Coe, Doug Coe's son and heir apparent, calls himself simply a friend to men such as John Ensign, whom he guided through the coverup of his affair. I met the younger Coe when I lived for several weeks as a member of the Family. He's a surprising source of counsel, spiritual or otherwise. Attempting to explain what it means to be chosen for leadership like King David was -- or Mark Sanford, according to his own estimate -- he asked a young man who'd put himself, body and soul, under the Family's authority, "Let's say I hear you raped three little girls. What would I think of you?" The man guessed that Coe would probably think that he was a monster. "No," answered Coe, "I wouldn't." Why? Because, as a member of the Family, he's among what Family leaders refer to as the "new chosen." If you're chosen, the normal rules don't apply.

So basically what they are saying is if you, the reader of this blog post, have an 8 year old daughter who is raped by a Congressman or Senator, you can count on said rapist to be harbored and protected by "The Family" because "the normal rules don't apply" to them as "God" has delegated "chosen" status upon them.

Well isn't that special?





Aside from the moral perversity of what these people stand for, they are also pushing a one-religion view of the world in the halls of U.S. government and have as a goal the destruction of church/state separation and the transformation of our Democratic Republic in to a fundamentalist theocracy.



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