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>>>>>Text of article from Mother Jones, by Fred

Clarkson, page 11.<<<
Wildmon Kingdom?
You may have heard of Rev. Don Wildmon's crusades against porn,
racy TV, and "obscenity" in the arts - from Robert Mapplethorpe to
the 2 Live Crew.  But there's more to Wildmon and many of his
associates.  They are part of the Coalition on Revival, a
theopolitical movement that seeks to make a fundamentalist
Christian nation out of the United States.  And they may be coming
soon to a city near you.
     Prominent COR members include Dr. Tim LaHaye of the
Traditional Values Coalition; televangelists Dr. D. James Kennedy
and Rev. Ron Haus; former congressman Mark Siljander; Robert Dugan,
Washington lobbyist for the National Association of Evangelicals;
and Dee Jepson, board chair for Pat Robertson's Regent University.
     This year, a de facto political arm of COR called the National
Coordinating Council emerged with a twenty four-point program, a
copy of which was obtained by Mother Jones.  Among other things, it
calls for the abolition of public schools, the IRS, and the Federal
Reserve System by the year 2000.  While the agenda is national, its
strategy is grass-roots - targeting elections in sixty North
American cities in the next five years.  "We are trying to form a
political network that will be awesome," NCC chief Dr. Jay
Grimstead (who also heads COR) told Mother Jones.  While hoping to
take over city councils and school boards, the group places special
emphasis on county government - sheriffs and boards of supervisors
- and once in power, the creation of county "militias."  Grimstead
explains that the feds can't be trusted, thus private citizens must
be armed and prepared to fight a future "communist Mexico," which
"will march across the Rio Grande."
     Pilot projects are underway in Orange and Santa Clara counties
in California, and the NCC plans to organize "spiritual armies" in
a dozen cities in the next year, including Atlanta, San Diego, and
Phoenix.  One NCC candidate, Sara C. Nelson, recently won a city-
council seat in Gilroy, California, according to Grimstead, "by
doing it right": she ran as a conventional politician who happens
to be Christian.
     A strong faction within COR follows Reconstructionism, which
seeks to impose its version of "Biblical law" on society and call
it the "Kingdom of God."  While not expressing official COR policy,
some Reconstructionists explicitly oppose democracy, notably R.J.
Rushdoony, Reconstructionism's acknowledged leader.  He also
believes homosexuals, adulterers, blasphemers, astrologers and
incorrigible children should be executed, preferably by "stoning."
Rushdoony is a member of the COR steering committee and is slated
to be a faculty member at COR's planned Kingdom College in San
Jose, California.  In a COR recruitment letter for the college,
Grimstead, who says his views are less extreme than Rushdoony's,
wrote that he seeks "young warriors who will be thrilled and
challenged to go through a Christian 'green beret' boot camp
training school for radical world changers."
     All NCC members are required to sign the COR manifesto, and
thus have signed pledges to be "willing to be martyred for Jesus
Christ and the establishment of His Kingdom here on earth."  We
tried to ask Rev. Wildmon where he stood on Reconstructionism and
the NCC program.  He didn't return our calls.


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