Washington's Frat House for Jesus

[babylonsister]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/09/06/washingtons_frat_house_for_jesus.html

Washington's Frat House for Jesus


The New Yorker runs an interesting piece on the "C Street house," the Capitol Hill townhouse where a group of Christian lawmakers live and pledge "to hold one another to a life lived by the principles of Jesus."

Despite a series of recent sex scandals by current and former residents -- Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) being the most recent -- Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) insists the "supper accountability session" will continue on Tuesday nights and "a question that'll be asked about every four weeks is, Is anybody here having an affair?"

No hypocrisy here.

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http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/09/13/100913fa_fact_boyer?currentPage=all

Frat House for Jesus

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. Why do they have to ask the 'affair' question every week? Affairs must be rampant

in that group.

[Turbineguy]

2. Maybe something this this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl4VD8uvgec

[TlalocW]

3. If you read, "The Family," by Jeff Sharlett about C-Street

Ultimately, it doesn't matter what you do - affairs, white-color crime, even murder - as long as you're, "for Jesus," and being for Jesus involves being for setting up a Theocracy headed by the rich and powerful.

TlalocW

[RamboLiberal]

5. He has a new book on C Street coming out end of month

C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy

Review
"At once a gripping political thriller, a masterpiece of investigative journalism, and a timely call to arms, C Street reveals all that can be hidden within an innocuous Washington address. Jeff Sharlet delivers a warning that the blurring of the line between church and state is both an urgent local problem and a matter of global concern." (Peter Manseau, author of Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World's Holy Dead and Songs for the Butcher's Daughter )

"Jeff Sharlet has an incredibly rare double talent: the instincts of an investigative reporter coupled with the soul of a historian." (Hanna Rosin, author of God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America )

"Jeff Sharlet is one of the very best writers covering the politics of religion." (Ken Silverstein, author of Turkmeniscam: How Washington Lobbyists Fought to Flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship )

"Few writers can pull off investigative journalism, historical research, and elegant storytelling. Sharlet does all this with a story that a lot of people don't want to hear and others won't believe." (Diane Winston, author of Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of The Salvation Army )

"Sharlet writes with insight, verve, and, thankfully, none of the bogus punditry and bad sociology that often passes for informed discourse about the contemporary role of religion in public life. His refreshing narrative style is as engaging as his groundbreaking information." (Frederick Clarkson, The Public Eye )

"Un-American theocrats can only fool patriotic American democrats when there aren't critics like Jeff Sharlet around-careful scholars and soulful writers who understand both the majesty of faith and the evil of its abuses." (Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America )

Product Description
The secretive Christian fundamentalist group known as "The Family" is leading a new crusade for a "God-led government." Jeff Sharlet, author of the New York Times bestseller The Family, is the only journalist to have reported from within the organization, garnering intense media coverage when it was revealed that their townhouse on Washington DC's C Street was central to three Republican politicians' sex scandals in the summer of 2009.

In C STREET, Sharlet shows how the Family, steeped in the influence and corruption one usually associates with the notorious lobbying industry, fuels and funds political fundamentalism from within our government. His exclusive access to sources and explosive documents show the true implications of fundamentalism in American politics--now, leading up to the next election, and beyond.

http://www.amazon.com/Street-Fundamentalist-Threat-American-Democracy/dp/0316091073/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283886532&sr=1-1

[Yeshuah Ben Joseph]

4. Let me add this place to the list

of buildings I need to trash when I come back (see "moneychangers" and "Temple" in the Bible)