MSNBC's Maddow Show Propels Growing Scandal Over Washington's "Christian Mafia" by Bruce Wilson

In a new August 17, 2009 Maddow show segment {link to MSNBC page with viewable show segment }, Rachel Maddow and Jeff Sharlet discuss, among many new revelations, the disturbing fact that the "Christian Embassy" scandal, propelled by a complaint to the Department of Defense from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, was investigated by a Pentagon Inspector General who is in fact a Family member.

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This story is certain to continue to generate new revelations on the influence that The Family's elitist, theocratically oriented members have managed to garner both within the Washington DC power establishment but also worldwide. As Family member David Kuo, author of Tempting Faith, has stated, "...the Family's reach into governments around the world is impossible to overstate or even grasp."

Revelations concerning The Family and other fundamentalist groups it works with, such as Campus Crusade For Christ and Youth With a Mission, will no doubt continue to break throughout the rest of August and into Fall 2009. Other angles to The Family story include its proclivity for promoting falsified American history and The Family's relationship with the global behemoth missionary group Youth With a Mission, which owns the "C Street House".

The founder of Youth With a Mission, Loren Cunningham, espouses a widely marketed program for Christian world domination called the "Seven Mountains" mandate (also known as the 7-M mandate and "Retaking the Seven Mountains") that is promoted in conferences, books, literature, and videos and has been espoused at Sarah Palin's most significant church , the Wasilla Assembly of God, during an October 2005 Palin ceremony and "anointing" Palin attended before running for the Alaska Governor's seat.

In 2000, YWAM and The Family co-founded a bipartisan Congressional junket http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/documents-show-christian_b_256825.html by two US Congress members went with their wives to Kona, Hawaii, the location of YWAM's international university. The two Congressman indicated that they went on official congressional business relating to the National Prayer Breakfast, the yearly signature public event of The Family since the institution was first established, during the Eisenhower Administration, in 1953.

Much of Jeff Sharlet's book can be read on google books here http://books.google.com/books?id=NVmcx-8zdGEC&

His site which links to his articles on The Family and other topics too http://jeffsharlet.com/content/articles/