Howard F Ahmanson Jr: Religious nut zillionaire and scary fundie

[roguevalley]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Observer/uk_news/story/0,6903,1431557,00.html

Anti-gay millionaire bankrolls Caravaggio spectacular

The blockbuster London exhibition has been funded by a reclusive American who would take a dim view of the painter's hedonistic life

Jamie Doward
Sunday March 6, 2005
The Observer

Day after day the crowds flock to the National Gallery's 'Caravaggio: The Final Years' exhibition, fascinated in equal measures by the artist's debauched lifestyle and the power of his paintings.

The 17th-century painter, who was alleged to have kept a boy lover and slept with a dagger by his bed, scandalised the Roman Catholic church's senior hierarchy as much for his hedonistic ways as his shocking depictions of the Virgin Mary, for which he used his prostitute muse as a model.

But what the crowds are unlikely to appreciate is that the acclaimed exhibition was made possible thanks to the generous donation of a reclusive US millionaire who bankrolled a fundamentalist religious movement founded by a man who endorsed the execution of homosexuals and adulterers.

Howard F Ahmanson Jr is the 21st century's answer to Howard Hughes. His company, Fieldstead, which gives grants to his pet causes, does not have a telephone number. Even in Orange County, California, where Ahmanson lives, few have heard of him. Suffering from Tourette's syndrome, he lets his wife, Roberta, do much of his talking for him. And yet his influence extends from the corridors of the White House to the parish churches of England's shire counties.

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[NNguyenMD]

1. and the theater named after he or his father sits right in downtown LA

where they'll play everything from CATs and Lion King to Rent and Miss Saigon.

strange man he is indeed

[JohnOneillsMemory]

2. Ahmanson is a big donor to NPR. See their 2002 finance webpage.

I saw it and half the page was a list of corporations and the other half was a big thank you to just one name, Howard Ahmanson.

Partly explains why NPR has become a white-collar Faux News radio.

[Karenina]

3. His needs to become

a household name.

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[roguevalley]

6. oops. sorry mods.

[kodi]

5. case # 1 for estate taxes

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[realFedUp]

7. known as "Harold" Ahmanson

Read all about him in Time Magazine's
25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America

http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101050207/index.html

[realFedUp]

8. Read more about him and them on this DU thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3016509

These people should concern us all since
they are high up in government.

[GOPBasher]

9. Why doesn't he obey the verse in Luke where Jesus tells

people to sell everything they own and give the money to the poor? :shrug: It seems that that verse would be more important, since it actually came from Jesus, than anything in Leviticus or Romans that condemn homosexuality.