braces_for_impact

WASHINGTON — Six members of Congress live in a million-dollar Capitol Hill townhouse that is subsidized by a secretive religious organization, tax records show.

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Melkor

"Oppressive? Not particularly. Offensive & innapropriate? Yes."

braces_for_impact

And people are worried about an Evil Atheist Conspiracytm ?

dangin

Wait. . . All I have to do is love jebus to get sweet digs. . .hmmmm, must ponder principals.

Toto

This secretive group sponsors the National Prayer Breakfast. It also sponsors a lot of networking among Christians and national and international leaders.

It has been mentioned in previous threads:

"Fellowship"---Christian Powerhouse

In particular, check out the Harper's Magazine article referenced in that thread:


Jesus Plus Nothing

Stephen Maturin

From the article:

The fact that Representative Doyle mentions propriety and compliance with the House rules separately speaks volumes about the House rules.

faust

some links in my post that i didn't complete.....


I believe it was Harpers about 2 mos ago (they don't seem to have a search feature or archive online.)
There was a really interesting story about them back in 2000 that I had found.

Scary thing is, there are several threads covering just a few of this group's activities and this is the first thread i've seen tying two of them together.

These are the National Prayer Breakfast sponsors. They fund foreign leaders and arrange access for them. They are bald faced liars "The organization doesn't get any special access to me..." one of the idiots who -lives- in their house.
The leader is a secretive bastard who is like invisible jerry falwell. They appear to have ENORMOUS influence.
Senators Don Nickles (R., Okla.), Charles Grassley (R., Iowa), Pete Domenici (R., N.Mex.), John Ensign (R., Nev.), James Inhofe (R., Okla.), Bill Nelson (D., Fla.), and Conrad Burns (R., Mont.) are referred to as "members," as are Representatives Jim DeMint (R., S.C.), Frank Wolf (R., Va.), Joseph Pitts (R., Pa.), Zach Wamp (R., Tenn.), and Bart Stupak (D., Mich.).

ok. found links.
Harpers articleJesus Plus Nothing

There was also an npr story on them, an interview with the author of Jesus Plus Nothing. Unfortunately i can't find it at the moment.

(As a side note, anyone got a list of current congressmen's stated religion?)

The leader of the fellowship / family seems to be "Doug Coe"
Elder Bush seems to dig him
And again
-- George H. Bush

more crap about the breakfastread this one sitting down.

8of9

So, does "illusive" mean that he's deceitful, or that his presence is just a trick of the light?

Perhaps Mr. Fundy reporter was trying to tell us something ... or perhaps he should put down the bible and pick up the flippin' dictionary!!

ZiprHead

Funny, I don't remember the guy with the "sophomoric sins" ever having virtually every nation in the world turn against him. The only thing humilating was what the Republicans did to our country to root out that "sophomoric sin."