Scandal-linked “The Family” Says: Jesus Wants You to Bust Unions

http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/4659/scandal-linked_the_family_says_jesus_wants_you_to_bust_unions/

Monday
July 27
10:19 am

Controversy continues to swirl around The Family, the secretive Christian group linked to sex scandals by its GOP members—including Sen. John Ensign, Gov. Mark Sanford and Rep. Charles Pickering.

Also known as The Fellowship Foundation, the group’s perverse ideology-cum-theology promotes the notion that an elite group of powerful men should become close to Jesus and guide the rest of us on our behalf.


Abraham Vereide and President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the Presidential Prayer Breakfast in February 1960. (Photo from www.wheaton.edu)

And their converted convent and residential headquarters, dubbed the C Street Residence, has become ground-zero in the latest outbreak of GOP hypocrisy.

Yet even as they believe that conventional morality shouldn’t have to apply to them, they’re also motivated by a deep belief in the value of free-market capitalism and the evil of unions. As The Week Magazine summarized:

The basic precepts came to Vereide in a vision in 1935, according to the group’s literature. Living in Seattle, he came to believe that union organizing in the city was communist-inspired. Jesus appeared to him in the form of the president of U.S. Steel, who told him to gather “key men”—prominent businessmen and political leaders—to beat back the unions in His name.

Vereide’s recruiting efforts spread eastward, and in 1941 he arrived in Washington, where he began cultivating friendships with powerful people and setting up prayer groups. By then, Vereide was convinced that conventional Christianity had it backwards: Instead of ministering to the down-and-out, Jesus wanted believers to tend to the “up-and-out”—members of America’s elite who lacked intimacy with Jesus.

In Vereide’s worldview, free-market capitalism is divinely ordained, and unions and regulations are a form of blasphemy.

FULL story at link.

and should be treated as such RICO charges maybe. Aside from breaking the First Amendment.

hahahaha

is an anti-Communism or anti-socialism ideology, but when it comes to a theocratic few ruling the rest of us it really amounts to anti-democracy.

http://books.google.com/books?id=NVmcx-8zdGEC

This group has been around for over half a century. They are patient and willing to work slowly to achieve their goals. It isn't to take over the world in one fell swoop but quietly seduce, cajole, manipulate and possibly coerce people in positions of power to swing their way. They have prayer groups for everyone from congressional interns to groups at the Pentagon. Looking at the number of their inner circle followers and friends in power in our goverment certainly help explain how American went furbar.

my husband is forced to listen to his crappy show every day as his "partner" insists on playing it. He said that Beck was saying that
" The unions are running this country."

My husband burst out laughing. Only 12% of working people in this country are organized and they are the ones running things? Yah riiiiighht. What a fucking moron.