Organizations and people with America's Christian Right often have ties with the Christian Reconstructionist movement - a movement designed to promote the idea of restructuring America into a repressive Christian theocracy. Many of the items on the Christian Right's agenda are, in fact, designed to promote theonomy, their word for a theocratic system.

David Neiwert writes:

What do the Ten Commandments, gay marriage and Janet Jackson all have in common? All three are symbols, for the religious right, of "everything that is wrong with America." ... And as a troika, they are playing a central role in the campaign by this same faction of the right to radically recast the nation's political landscape, primarily by attacking the power of the courts to shape public policy. They are the noisy cover, as it were, for a stealth attack on the judiciary.

What's important to remember is just who is driving this agenda: It is not just the typical "religious right" faction of the Republican Party -- the Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells -- but the Christian Reconstructionists, or Theocratic Dominionists, as they are sometimes called. (Robertson, it should be noted, is in fact a Dominionist himself.) These are the folks who believe there should be no church-state separation, and who want to see America ruled by "Christian laws."

Leaders of the Christian Right, and that includes much of the leadership of the Republican Party, want to limit the American government to "godly men," whether overtly in the laws or covertly via other means. They also want to take away from the courts the power to evaluate the constitutionality of such actions and the constitutionality of any attempts to promote and endorse their particular version of Christianity. The coming election is, quite obviously, about a lot more than just George W. Bush.

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