Back To The Future?

Religious Right Activists At ‘Assembly 2007’ Seek To Roll Back Church-State Relations 400 Years And Make America A Christian Nation

by Jeremy Leaming

In late April of 1607, three ships of English adventurers landed at Cape Henry in what is now Virginia in search of fame and fortune. Although their primary motivation was gold, not God, they erected a wooden cross, and Anglican priest Robert Hunt led a prayer service.

Four hundred years later, the Rev. John Gimenez stepped onto the sand at nearby Virginia Beach to reenact that historic event. This time, Gimenez, TV preacher Pat Rob­ertson and a host of their Religious Right allies erected an array of small plastic crosses and claimed America for their version of Christianity.