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To: E Rocc
The "Christian Reconstructionists" say similar things. Some even advocate a death penalty for "blasphemy".

Just WHO are you referring to that says similar things and WHO are you referring to that advocates a death penalty for blasphemy? I think you statement is not only false, but just plain ridiculous.

50 posted on 02/01/2006 8:22:33 AM PST by nfldgirl ("I love a good rant every now-n-then!")
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To: Mean Maryjean
Invitation to a Stoning
Getting cozy with theocrats

By Walter Olson

For connoisseurs of surrealism on the American right, it's hard to beat an exchange that appeared about a decade ago in the Heritage Foundation magazine Policy Review. It started when two associates of the Rev. Jerry Falwell wrote an article which criticized Christian Reconstructionism, the influential movement led by theologian Rousas John (R.J.) Rushdoony, for advocating positions that even they as committed fundamentalists found "scary." Among Reconstructionism's highlights, the article cited support for laws "mandating the death penalty for homosexuals and drunkards." The Rev. Rushdoony fired off a letter to the editor complaining that the article had got his followers' views all wrong: They didn't intend to put drunkards to death.

Ah, yes, accuracy does count. In a world run by Rushdoony followers, sots would escape capital punishment--which would make them happy exceptions indeed. Those who would face execution include not only gays but a very long list of others: blasphemers, heretics, apostate Christians, people who cursed or struck their parents, females guilty of "unchastity before marriage," "incorrigible" juvenile delinquents, adulterers, and (probably) telephone psychics. And that's to say nothing of murderers and those guilty of raping married women or "betrothed virgins." Adulterers, among others, might meet their doom by being publicly stoned--a rather abrupt way for the Clinton presidency to end.

71 posted on 02/01/2006 9:32:58 AM PST by E Rocc
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