South Carolina Ping
Posted on 08/28/2005 2:02:45 PM PDT by Crackingham
It began, as many road trips do, with a stop at Wal-Mart to buy a portable DVD player. But Mario DiMartino was planning more than a weekend getaway. He, his wife and three children were embarking on a pilgrimage to South Carolina.
"I want to migrate and claim the gold of the Lord," said the 38-year-old oil company executive from Pennsylvania. "I want to replicate the statutes and the mores and the scriptures that the God of the Old Testament espoused to the world."
DiMartino, who drove here recently to look for a new home, is a member of Christian Exodus, a movement of politically active believers who hope to establish a government based upon Christian principles.
At a time when evangelicals are exerting influence on the national political stage — having helped secure President Bush's reelection — Christian Exodus believes that people of faith have failed to assert their moral agenda: Abortion is legal. School prayer is banned. There are limits on public displays of the Ten Commandments. Gays and lesbians can marry in Massachusetts. Christian Exodus activists plan to take control of sheriff's offices, city councils and school boards. Eventually, they say, they will control South Carolina. They will pass godly legislation, defying Supreme Court rulings on the separation of church and state.
"We're going to force a constitutional crisis," said Cory Burnell, 29, an investment advisor who founded the group in November 2003.
"If necessary," he said, "we will secede from the union."
Burnell has not moved to South Carolina himself — he promised his wife that they would stay in Valley Springs, Calif., until the end of next year — but believes that his 950 supporters will rally to the cause. Five families have moved so far.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Leave it to the Los Angeles Times to wet their pants over an issue like this. I sure don't remember them whining over socialist/communist influences on the nation. In fact, I've seen them hawk those ideas for decades. The LAT chose it's side a long time ago. That's why I still refer to it as Pravda on the Pacific. I will until it quits echoing Pravda's favorite oldies from the Cold War.
Before the World was we were all within the Earth.Mother Corn caused movement. She gave life.
Life being given we moved towards the surface:
We shall stand erect as men!
The being is become human! He is a person!
To personal form is added strength:
Form and intelligence united, we are ready to come forth
But Mother Corn warns us that the Earth is still in flood.
Now Mother Corn proclaims that the flood is gone, and the Earth--now green.
Mother Corn commands that the people ascend to the surface.
Mother Corn has gathered them together, they move half way to the surface;
Mother Corn leads them near to the surface of the Earth;
Mother Corn brings them to the surface. The first light appears!
Mother Corn leads them forth. They have emerged to the waist.
They step forth to the surface of the Earth.
Now all have come forth; and Mother Corn leads them from the East towards the West.
Mother Corn leads them to the place of their habitation. . . .
All is completed All is perfect!
H.B. Alexander, The World's Rim
Hmmm...This fellow may see himself as another Moses reclaiming the promised land, but I don't recall this 'do as I say not do as I do' approach in the old testament.
Last time I checked, this citizen was free to practice any religion he liked. He may be the ultimate yahoo, but having the LA Times wax rhapsodic on the topic makes me want to puke. If you wish to judge him, be my guest, first stone and all...
These-yoyos-again ping!
Looks like he is a pro-feminist liberal who lets his wife run the household and call the shots.
Jenny, your Pulitzer is in the mail ... NOT.
I reckon FR is having some trouble.
...There are restrictions on displaying the Ten Commandments, Gays can marry each other...."
Black is Wednesday, white is up, etc, etc.
My history may be a bit hazy but didn't South Carolina try this once before?
Why keep it a secret? Don't they want like-minded folks to move there? Or are they afraid that a busload of hairy-armpitted lesbian vegans from Berkeley will beat them to their promised land.
After reading the whole article it appears that they don't want the locals to know they are coming. They might not be so welcomed.
"If necessary," he said, "we will secede from the union."
Burnell has not moved to South Carolina himself
LOL, that's hilarious! Two threats, followed by, "... but not right now."
Question for you Cory: How do 950 people, "secede from the union?"
Speaking as someone who is fairly new myself, IMHO, South Carolina will welcome y'all. The people here are pretty tolerant. I'd suggest, however, that y'all behave yourselves. People 'round here don't much take to radical ideas. You could find yourselves in a mess of trouble.
I don't blame you for having an opinion on this. We probably share some of the same beliefs. Once again, it disgusts me to have the LA Times sit in judgement on the subject of religion or patriotism or our political system. They are as tainted as it gets.
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