Last night, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow continued the tear she's been on over the past several weeks, in her multi-part, ongoing series [link to Youtube videos of segments of Maddow's series] that delves into Jeff Sharlet's research on The Family and the increasingly notorious "C Street House".
As revealed Tuesday on the Rachel Maddow Show, footage shows US GOP Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe discussing being dispatched by "Family" head Douglas Coe, to Africa, on trips paid for by the US government and American taxpayers during which Inhofe, by his own words, promoted The Family's theological views to kings and top government leaders.
Described in Sharlet's book The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at The Heart Of American Power, The Family holds to a distinctly unorthodox political philosophy that celebrates the organizational accomplishments of Lenin's Bolsheviks and Hitler's Nazi Party.
The profile emerging from Maddow's ongoing series publicizing Sharlet's revelations about The Family is of a church-state separation so effectively demolished that it's hard to say whether some Senators and Congress members are working for The Family or for the US government.
And, as I've noted, the Family has been an important promoter of Christian nationalist revisionist views of American history that purport to prove the United States was originally founded as an expressly Christian nation.