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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Aug 04, 2005 01:16pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, August 4, 2005 07:15:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Posted 1:30 pm | Printer Friendly
USA Today's Susan Page had a fascinating, must-read item yesterday, primarily about an initiative called the "Ohio Restoration Project," which is a network of extremely conservative, vaguely theocratic, right-wing "Patriot Pastors" who hope to take over the state politically.
Pastor Russell Johnson paces across the broad stage as he decries the "secular jihadists" who have "hijacked" America, accuses the public schools of neglecting to teach that Hitler was "an avid evolutionist" and links abortion to children who murder their parents.
"It's time for the church to get a spinal column" and push the "seculars and the jihadists … into the dust bin of history," the guest preacher tells a congregation that fills the sanctuary at First Christian Church of Canton.
Johnson and others who lead this Ohio Restoration Project believe they have the numbers to dominate not only the state's GOP, but all state elections. They're rallying behind Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell (R), who plans to lead them in "reclaiming" the state.
Not every Republican in Ohio, however, is on board with the plan.
Neil Clark, a former chief operating officer for the Ohio Senate Republican Caucus and one of the best-connected lobbyists in Columbus, the state capital, says he and other moderate Republicans are worried about the state "going back to the Stone Ages of Salem."
They are ready to fight back, he says. "That could be in recruiting another candidate, or it could be in saying we're not going to support a candidate that doesn't have interests other than the three fundamental interests of the church — abortion, gay marriage and gambling," he says. "There's a lot of other things that make a state go."
This is a division that could make the DLC vs. liberal Dems look like a tea party. |
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