{"id":584,"date":"2004-10-23T08:27:51","date_gmt":"2004-10-23T13:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=584"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:24","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:24","slug":"gop_bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/23\/gop_bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP = BJP?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Theocracy, it’s not just for South Asians any more. According to arch-conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan, the Texas GOP has developed a jonesing for home grown Sharia law<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n

The Republican National Committee is employing the services of a Texas-based activist who believes the United States is a ‘Christian nation’ and the separation of church and state is ‘a myth.’\n\nDavid Barton, the founder of an organization called Wallbuilders, was hired by the RNC as a political consultant and has been traveling the country for a year–speaking at about 300 RNC-sponsored lunches for local evangelical pastors. During the lunches, he presents a slide show of American monuments, discusses his view of America\u00c2\u2019s Christian heritage — and tells pastors that they are allowed to endorse political candidates from the pulpit.\n<\/blockquote> It gets worse. Barton is on the board of advisers for a Christian Reconstructionist<\/b> group – people who believe that America should scrap its constitution and go back to Biblical law<\/a><\/b>. When I have described the trend within the GOP as theocratic, I am sometimes criticized for hyperbole. But this is the reality. Barton is the vice-chair of the Texas GOP<\/b>. Figures. \n<\/blockquote>\n\n

And you thought the only connections between Texas and the Taliban were their mutual love of big “hats” and pickup trucks. Here is a detailed exposition of the history of American Biblical Law<\/a>, some (hostile) quotes<\/a> from a book that argues from biblical law<\/a>, and the accompanying software<\/a> (looks like it is just text).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Theocracy, it’s not just for South Asians any more. According to arch-conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan, the Texas GOP has developed a jonesing for home grown Sharia law: The Republican National Committee is employing the services of a Texas-based activist who … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}