Hullabaloo: Blog Against Theocracy Part IV: Takeover Of The Texas GOP

by tristero

For those of you following this series, this is a bonus post. One of the biggest misconceptions of American theocracy is that, "intelligent design" creationism aside, the most crackpot forms of christianism, such as those of Joe Morecraft and R.J. Rushdoony, are too marginal ever to worry about. Not so, unless you think Texas Republican politics has had nothing to do with national poltiics for the past seventeen years:

In February 1990 I received an unsolicited video in the mail. The video came from a Dr. Stephen Hotze and was entitled "Restoring America: How You Can Impact Civil Government." Filmed at a church in my neighborhood, I recognized the actors as the pastor and congregants of an Independent Fundamental Baptist church (the Jerry Falwell kind). The video was a guide on how to 1) take over a Republican Party precinct meeting, 2) elect "Christian" delegates to the GOP District meeting, and 3) put planks supporting the theocratic agenda of Christian Reconstructionism into the party platform...