GEORGE (DUBYA) BUSH AND THE COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY (CNP)

"There ought to be limits
to freedom..."

— George W. Bush,
commenting on the website
www.gwbush.com

QUOTE OF THE MONTH: "If you don't think it's a gamble to put a man in the White House who believes we should have guns in church, who thinks the Taliban is a rock band, who was such a failure as a businessman that his company was nicknamed "El-Busto," who wants to turn our Social Security system into a Wall Street boiler room, who can't name a single thing he disagrees with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson on, who smeared a bona fide hero named John McCain, and whose principle policy proposal is to give America's surplus to the idle rich in the form of a $1.3 trillion tax cut, you're either nuts or a Republican."

... Equal Time co-host Paul Begala, shooting the bull.

THE COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY (CNP)

When the Rev. Tim LaHaye founded CNP, he enlisted the help of several Texas billionaires. Today, LaHaye is the co-author of a series of popular books about the "end-times" and the Second Coming of Christ. He was also a co-founder of the Moral Majority. In the 1980s he headed the American Coalition for Traditional Values. While heading that group, LaHaye said, "If every Bible-believing, Christ-loving church would trust God to raise up an average of just one person over the next 10 years who would get elected, we would have more Christian candidates than there are offices."

LaHaye's wife, Beverly, founded Concerned Women for America, a politically active group claiming 600,000 fundamentalist women as members. Tim and Beverly LaHaye met while attending Bob Jones University.

Hostility to the Constitution's separation of church and state is the defining feature of the religious right. While all the members of the CNP are not Christian fundamentalists, they are hostile to church/state separation and work toward implementing an ultraconservative agenda. Its secretive membership boasts antiabortion activists, gun rights proponents, religious crusaders, anti-tax advocates, financiers, politicians, and political organizers. The CNP has more than 500 members, who were admitted by invitation-only, including senators, congressmen, and leaders of almost every national radical-right group.

Among the membership are Christian Coalition president Pat Robertson; political strategist Ralph Reed; Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina; Congressmen Dick Armey and Tom Delay of Texas; the Conservative Caucus' Howard Phillip; Gun Owners of America head Larry Pratt; radio talk show host Oliver North; direct mail wizard Richard Viguerie; Texas billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt; Amway Corporation founder Richard DeVos; Focus on the
Family head James Dobson; recent presidential candidate Gary Bauer, and the founder of the American Family Association, Rev Donald Wildmon. These are the cream of the Religious Right.

While CNP meetings are closed to the public and the press, it is important that all the views and statements of a presidential candidate be made known to the voting public. Therefore, the Bush campaign owes it to the American people to release the remarks of Governor George W. Bush.

Why would George W. want to make this a Christian Only country? One Answer could be that if there are only fundamentalist Christians in the White House and Congress, we could go back to the 50s culture, when there was more Graft and Corruption in American politics than at almost any other time in the nations history.

The above described meeting is with people who wish to change this countries government into a Theocracy where there is more money to be made when there is less visibility of the actions of our politicians. The stated religious aims of a large number of them are to: put all adulterers and homosexuals to death and destroy the democratic constitution in favor of a
Theocracy where Old Testament law governs. Iran has a Theocracy.

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