Rand Paul Was The Featured Speaker At Theocratic Constitution Party 2009 Rally

[Joanne98]

In a pinch, all you really need to know about Christian Reconstructionism is in the title of a January 2008 Talk To Action story of mine, More From The Biblical Stoning & Legalized Slavery Movement. Enter Ran Paul.
Amidst the hullaballoo over Republican Ran Paul's upset victory in the Kentucky GOP primary for US Senate, one of the few journalists to raise the issue of Paul's somewhat uncomfortable proximity to Christian Reconstructionism has been Alternet's Adele Stan, who observes that Rand Paul's father Ron Paul is personal friends with one of the bigger names in the Christian Reconstructionist movement, Howard Phillips, founder of the US Taxpayers Party - now re-branded as The Constitution Party. But there's direct evidence tying Ran Paul to the Constitution Party, whose national platform declares,


"The goal of the Constitution Party is to restore American jurisprudence to its Biblical foundations...
The U.S. Constitution established a Republic rooted in Biblical law"



As Adele Stan notes, Phillips gave a keynote address at the Ron Paul For President Convention in Minneapolis a year and a half ago. And, Ron Paul endorsed the 2008 Constitution Party's presidential candidate in the 2008 election, Chuck Baldwin.
As it's said, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. In a May 21, 2009 appearance on the Alex Jones Show, Rand Paul affirmed that his political beliefs were extremely close to those of his father Ron:


Alex Jones - "You're basically what I would call a chip off the old block. Your policies are basically identical to your father, correct?"
Rand Paul - "I'd say we'd be very very similar. We might present the message sometimes differently.. I think in some ways the message has to be broadened and made more appealing to the entire Republican electorate because you have to win a primary."

So it isn't altogether surprising that Rand Paul could be found, in April 2009, at a rally held by a political party that's been heavily influenced by a movement whose founder, Rousas Rushdoony, advocated executing homosexuals by stoning, wanted to reimpose the institution of slavery, and maintained that the Earth rotated around the Sun.

In April 25, 2009, Ran Paul was the featured guest speaker at The Constitution Party of Minnesota's "event of the year." I've found video of Rand Paul at an afternoon Minneapolis rally, so he was without a doubt in the vicinity.

Just to make sure I talked to Tammy Houle, whose phone number is the Minnesota Constitution Party listed contact number, and she confirmed to me that Ran Paul had indeed spoken at the April 25th evening event

The odd thing about Rand and Ron Paul's political tendency is that it offers liberals and progressives a number of points of agreement, probably more than with more 'mainstream' conservative GOP politicians. For example, Ron Paul has been a principled opponent of the invasion of Iraq and US military adventurism in the Mideast generally, and Ran Paul espouses the same position.

But it's hard to get much more extreme than Christian Reconstructionism, whose founder Rushdoony was a Holocaust denier, a racist, a creationist, and an advocate for slavery who claimed that African-American slaves were lucky.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/5/20/175036/669

:crazy:

[charlesg]

1. Rushdoony opposed racial integration and believed that interracial marriage should be made illegal

That tells you something about how they feel about Obama.

[Richardo]

2. I like the way 'Rushdoony' rhymes with...

..."foaming fundamentalist racist dickwad".

[NoSheep]

3. I like that too.

[jberryhill]

4. It's an interesting coincidence /nt

[dgibby]

6. or

radical rightwing religious looney.

[dgibby]

5. I sent this to Rachel.

Hope she uses it. Seems tailor made for her, considering her interest in Rand Paul and other whacko religious programs (The Family, C St, etc).

Thanks for posting. The American Talibornagains: these are some of the most dangerous people in the country,imo.