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The following is excerpted from Skipp Porteous' book, "Jesus Doesn't Live Here
Anymore: From Fundamentalist to Freedom Writer". It is provided to inform
readers to the growing Reconstructionist movement in America.....a movement
which is sweeping through Christianity providing it's adherents with a basis
for hatred and even execution of selected groups of people. While this file
was constructed at the request of an online friend and highlights
Reconstructionist views of the death penalty as a proper method of addressing
practicing homosexuals, the prescription set forth by these people is not
limited to homosexuals. Included in their list of sufficient grounds for the
death penalty are adulterers, blasphemers, etc......the list is quite
encompassing and includes some 50 million people in the United States who
would be summarily executed. These are dangerous people and as their numbers
and influence grows, so grows the threat to our cherished constitutional
freedoms.
SELECTED EXCERPTS:
Tenets of this philosophy (Reconstructionist) include: God's law, as revealed
in the Bible, should govern every area of life; local government should rule;
prisons could virtually be closed if serious offenders were executed, and if
less serious criminals worked to make restitution for their crimes; capital
offenses, requiring the death penalty, should include unrepentant
homosexuality, abortion, and adultery; pornography in any form should be
eliminated; schools should be run by churches, and property taxes should be
abolished; husbands should be the heads of the household, and women and
children should be subservient. p. 11
I asked Pastor [Leonard] Coppes [pastor of the Providence Church of Denver,
Colorado -- Orthodox Presbyterian] if he agreed that homosexuality and
abortion should be punishable by death. Coppes replied at one: "Both of
those I would agree with. The question is who is going to set the law system?
I think God should set the law system, not man. Those laws that define the
seriousness of a crime, and are rooted in the moral nature of God, are still
binding on us. If they [homosexuals] don't repent, the Bible says that they
ought to be put to death. It's just a matter of what God says." p. 11
[Following was spoken by Jay Grimstead, director of the Coalition on Revival:]
"Well, the Bible had something like eleven reasons for capital punishment.
And murder was one. And homosexuality, and rape, and kidnaping were some
others.....we think that homosexuality, and abortion, and pornography should
be outlawed." p. 15
[Following was spoken by Joan Bershefski of the Stratford Coalition Against
Pornography:] "Because there are so many homosexuals working in government,
AIDS is the first disease that has ever been protected politically. The AIDS
virus can be transmitted by mosquitoes," she stated authoritatively. p. 200
[Following spoken by Skipp Porteous on Paul Gonzales show on AM 750 WSB,
Atlanta radio program:] "A fellow named R.J. Rhusdoony is considered the
father of Reconstructionism; he's a former Prebyterian minister. And since
1964 this fellow, who's seventy-four years old now, has been laboring quietly
writing documents and greatly influencing the church. People don't realize
this, but many of the books on Christian activism found in Christian
bookstores are written by Reconstructionists, like John Whitehead, Donald
Wildmon, Franky Schaeffer, D. James Kennedy, Tim and Beverly LaHaye. These
people are prolific writers. They have a great influence on American
Christianity and they are all members of this group called the Coalition on
Revival, which is a Reconstructionist front." p. 231
[Following spoken by a Reconstructionist caller to Paul Gonzales show:] "...I
mean, let's face it, Paul, homosexuality today is not striving for equal
rights. Their driving for superior rights. They want to force their system
on the rest of us. They want the right to do what heterosexuals have been
traditionally arrested for doing in public." p. 254
[Following spoken by Christian Reconstructionist writer and member of the
Coalition on Revival steering committee, Gary DeMar:] "The Bible lays forth
the severest penalty. The severest penalty would be capital punishment for
two men who publicly engaged in sodomy. Which would mean, that if that law
were on the books -- which it has been on the books in many states, and
probably still is in many states in the nation today." p. 257
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