This is by far the scariest thing I have ever read and definitely gives more than a few clues about what GWB is doing. This article concerns Senator Brownback (R-Kansas) who is actively courting the far-right Conservative Christians to nominate him for President, of course assuming we even have an election in 2008.
Rolling Stone Article
SCARY Quotes Below the Fold. This asshole actually belongs to "secret" spritual/religious groups that aim to exert control over legislative decisions. Read the first quote below and be prepared... to be scared.
Now, Brownback seeks something far more radical: not faith-based politics but faith in place of politics. In his dream America, the one he believes both the Bible and the Constitution promise, the state will simply wither away. In its place will be a country so suffused with God and the free market that the social fabric of the last hundred years -- schools, Social Security, welfare -- will be privatized or simply done away with. There will be no abortions; sex will be confined to heterosexual marriage. Men will lead families, mothers will tend children, and big business and the church will take care of all.
He tells a story about a chaplain who challenged a group of senators to reconsider their conception of democracy. "How many constituents do you have?" the chaplain asked. The senators answered: 4 million, 9 million, 12 million. "May I suggest," the chaplain replied, "that you have only one constituent?"
Brownback pauses. That moment, he declares, changed his life. "This" -- being senator, running for president, waving the flag of a Christian nation -- "is about serving one constituent." He raises a hand and points above him.
Back in 1994, when Brownback came to Congress as a freshman, he was so contemptuous of federal authority that he refused at first to sign the Contract With America, Newt Gingrich's right-wing manifesto -- not because it was too radical but because it was too tame. Republicans shouldn't just reform big government, Brownback insisted -- they should eliminate it. He immediately proposed abolishing the departments of education, energy and commerce.
He was baptized not in a church but in a chapel tucked between lobbyists' offices on K Street that is run by Opus Dei, the secretive lay order founded by a Catholic priest who advocated "holy coercion" and considered Spanish dictator Francisco Franco an ideal of worldly power.
The following year, he squeaked into Congress, running as a moderate. But in Washington, in the midst of the Gingrich Revolution, Brownback didn't just tack right -- he unzipped his quiet Kansan costume and stepped out as the leader of the New Federalists, the small but potent faction of freshmen determined to get rid of government almost entirely. When he discovered that the Republican leadership wasn't really interested in derailing its own gravy train, Brownback began spending more time with his Bible. He began to suspect that the problem with government wasn't just too many taxes; it was not enough God.
Considering all of the scary quotes above... these are from ONLY the 1st half of the article.
UPDATE: Unnoficial Opus Dei Homepage Check this site out. Read the responses section of the website. What becomes clear about Opus Dei is that its not a religion... it is a cult. All the way down to mind control techniques being employed to keep people from leaving. "I am leaving..." "But you can't leave. You must not love God then if you want to leave. " etc etc. This is some scary shit.
UPDATE2: I have received some messages from people who thought that my post was anti-religous and wanted to point that out to me. Let's get something straight here. I do not care about what you prefer to believe. You are free to do that. It is what makes this country great. The problem comes though when you try to force your religion on me. Now, I am not talking about any proselytizing or anything like that. (In fact, I am very kind to people that knock on my door and invite them to sit awhile on my patio and offer them water. But when they offer to speak about religion, I politely decline.) But what Senator Brownback is trying to do is turn the United States of America into a theocratic state, where everyone accepts Jesus. Well, to accept Jesus the way this man does, people would be forced to abandon science and most of what rational people know to be true about the physical world around us. That is unacceptable to me. Why can't we all just get a long. The solution to this is state's rights. If a state wants to organize itself into one religion, good for it. I will try my best to adapt to their rules if I visit their state. But don't screw with the lives of a majority of the country that believes something other than what you do, by forcing YOUR beliefs on us.