Christian Group Seeks To Take-Over South Carolina
February 25th, 2006 | by Ken Grandlund |No, I’m not making this up. A group calling itself Christian Exodus is actively seeking to repopulate the state of South Carolina with evangelicals in an effort to “reestablish constitutionally limited government founded upon Christian principles.”
According to their website, they propose to move thousands of Christians to South Carolina, who will then presumably elect like minded state and local officials who will then stand up to the federal government by refusing to enforce what they call illegal federal acts. Consider some of them:
Unborn babies are subject to slaughter by abortionists and their own mothers under any pretext whatsoever. (Of course, all abortions are forced and for no reason other than to kill, kill, kill.)
The elderly, infirm, and disabled are subject to forced starvation and involuntary euthanasia. (Living will? Never heard of it.)
Citizens are subjected to the perils of imperialist entanglements abroad, and left unprotected from alien invaders at home. (Okay, I’ll concede this one.)
Christians are denied their rights to free speech, freedom of the press, the display of religious monuments, and other expressions of faith in the public sphere. (Yes, we’re hanging Christians from the cross again, and it’s everywhere.)
Citizens are denied their rights to keep and bear arms sufficient for the restraint of tyranny. (Did anyone tell the NRA?)
Men, women, and children are involuntarily exposed to the corrupting influences of homosexuality, pornography, and other perversities protected and financed by the national government. (My favorite websites, TV shows, and reading material are all taxpayer financed and full of smut.)
Federal expenditures on education are unconstitutional and promote revisionist history and statist sociology. Our schools continue to teach the discredited theory of Darwinian evolution. (Can anyone say Galileo?)
They are taking a long view approach here though, and not expecting to secede until about 2016. Interested in joining? Go to the website for all the details.
The more I think about it though, the better this sounds. Maybe if all the far right religious fundamentalists did have their own territory, the rest of us could get on with living and letting live and turn our attention to the corruption, greed, and dishonesty plaguing our government instead of having to deal with the distractions of religious ideology.
Just one problem. I’ve never been to South Carolina, but I’m not sure that all of it’s citizens will cotton to a hostile take-over. Maybe they should have gone one spot farther in their alphabetical listing of states. South Dakota seems ripe for the taking these days!
23 Responses to “Christian Group Seeks To Take-Over South Carolina”
By Jet on Feb 24, 2006 | Reply
Sounds like a little group with a big dream. Somehow I think South Carolina is with us, if for no other reason than I don’t see them economically viable enough to stand alone.
By windspike on Feb 24, 2006 | Reply
Sounds like a perfect follow up for some one with Jim Jones tendencies…or that wacko in waco - near Crawford Tx, wasn’t it?
By Ditto on Feb 25, 2006 | Reply
Extrapolate this trend (if it exists) to a tragic potential; Each state with majority support for differing, sometimes conflicting interests. Gay state adjacent to Homophobe state, Jewish state next to Arabic, Pro-Life state beside Pro-Choice state, Paper vs. plastic. The US could become like Europe early in the last century with war after war, localized and wide spread war. Thnk of all the bullets to be sold.
I read only a handful have actually moved… Exodus in name only.
By Liberal Army Wife on Feb 25, 2006 | Reply
South Carolina is such a nice, pretty state… why don’t we send them somewhere else? SoDak…NoDak… But if they are all together, they are easier to watch, right? and when they turn on each other, and start acting like the morons they are…. well, what GREAT Reality TV….
ARe these people serious? very scary.
~LAW~
By Dave on Feb 25, 2006 | Reply
Give me a break. I saw these harmless kooks on Daily Show over a year ago.
Do you really think they will have any effect whatsoever on anything?
By Joe Snitty on Feb 25, 2006 | Reply
Love the annotations, Ken!
By Pia Savage on Feb 25, 2006 | Reply
Ken-I truly did believe that you were joking. It looks like a Weekly World News headline.
To answer Dave if I may, people thought Hitler was a harmless kook with a really stupid moustache
I can cite many more examples of harmless kooks who weren’t harmless–but I think Hitler is a great example myself
Thing is when times are tough, when people can’t pay the mortgage or the rent or are having problems of any kind, many tend to fall for charastimic leaders and/or movements that promise them a better life, and aren’t most of us looking for one?
By Dancingdog on Feb 25, 2006 | Reply
What a great Idea! Get all of our human garbage in one dump, build a fence around it. Maybe we could store all of our toxic waste there too. Now how do we get the Texas politicians in there?
By liberal vet on Feb 25, 2006 | Reply
Just more proof of the insanity of organized religion and why I am and will remain an atheist. These zealots have no idea what freedom is about. They would infringe upon our freedoms and take away our rights. They were on the Daily Show as a previous blogger indicated. I would agree they are so out there that they pose no viable threat. And once again they are also entitled to say what they want. So long as they do not resort to violence like at Waco and Ruby Ridge. As far as giving them a place to go they can all piss off…. LV
By Francis W. Porretto on Feb 25, 2006 | Reply
Pro-lifers hold that abortion is morally indistinguishable from murder. Granting the premise, why should it matter what the mother’s <b><i>reason</i></b> is for wanting to kill her unborn baby? It’s abhorrent regardless of the motivation.
By GTL on Feb 25, 2006 | Reply
I’ve never been to South Carolina, but I’m not sure that all of it’s citizens will cotton to a hostile take-over. Maybe they should have gone one spot farther in their alphabetical listing of states.
LOL Ken, I was working in SC last year when this first broke, and the local talk radio show guys were having a field day with it. One time I was listening while one of the right winger hosts was asking callers if they would welcome these people into their state with open arms, and I enjoyed listening to about 1 in 3 or 4 or the callers who would call in and say “Heck yes, let’s take back our state from the devil’s grip!”. Even most of the right wingers were calling in and rediculing these bufoons. It just went to demonstrate that not all conservatives have guzzled all of the koolaid down yet.
I get a kick out of these doofuses, and many of the comments to this post have been extremely entertaining and a joy to read. Blog ON, brother….!
By Liberal Army Wife on Feb 25, 2006 | Reply
Ottman@!! hope you enjoy South Carolina, middle of summer, hot humid…. and when this bunch of morons moves there, you can be surrounded by others like you. Stupid, narrowminded, bigoted, anti anything you don’t like, right wing fools!!!!!!! For now, would you just get off this site and leave us the hell alone? You don’t like us, and I think even you might realize we sure as hell don’t like your nastiness.
~LAW~
By EsotericWombat on Feb 25, 2006 | Reply
I know I’m just quibbling, but if this group is based in South Carolina, doesn’t that make what they’re orchestrating an Introdus?
Francis: “Granting the premise” is the operative phrase here. We don’t grant the premise, and it’s ludicrous to expect anyone else to do so if they don’t believe as you.
Watch.
I believe that religious fundamentalists are the enemy in what ought to be a war against ignorance. Granting the premise, why haven’t we executed George W. Bush for treason?
By Cosmik Voyager on Feb 25, 2006 | Reply
This actually was featured in a Daily Show segment last year. It’s rather amusing.
By ken grandlund on Feb 25, 2006 | Reply
Glad to see you are all enjoying the nuttiness of this post. While others note that these guys have been around for a while, I first heard of them just the other day. I saw their website and decided to poke some fun. So, Pia, it seems they’re real- or at least as real as they want to be.
And while Francis wants to center this post around the abortion mention, to do so misses the wider range of this post, so sorry Francis, proselytize all you want, but I’m not biting this time.
By MargaretPOA on Feb 26, 2006 | Reply
I say let them populate South Carolina, if the South Carolinians will have them, then let them secede with just one condition: They HAVE to take Fred Phelps and his group. That way they couldn’t get a Visa to enter the United States to protest at funerals!
By Schmedlap on Feb 26, 2006 | Reply
Rather than ceding them South Carolina, let’s create a new state or better yet a new country along the Gulf Coast and we’ll call it Katrina. As a bonus, they get Mississippi and Alabama, too.
By Stupid Git on Feb 26, 2006 | Reply
“reestablish constitutionally limited government founded upon Christian principles.”
Unconstitutionally Limiting government is what it sounds like. They want government to regulate every choice they make.
By Roger on Feb 26, 2006 | Reply
What a great idea. Sometimes I feel like I want to leave the country so I can get away from these morons. Wouldn’t it be great to get all these kooks in one place away from the educated, progressive, compassionate and tolerant people. These people are so toxic that it would only be a matter of time before they joined their Islamic cousins in barbaric self destruction. Organized religion is evil and these pathetic blobs deserve each other.
By MargaretPOA on Feb 26, 2006 | Reply
Yep! Put them all in one place, build a wall around them and give them all the small arms they want. Maybe they’ll take care of our problem themselves.
By K on Feb 27, 2006 | Reply
I’m sure they will succeed like the christian nut job who wants to purchase a bunch of Microsoft stock and then dump it on the exchange to ‘teach’ Microsoft a lesson. (MS urged the state of Washington to recognize civil unions.) The price tag for their plan: over $300 million. If they even come close to being able to do this then it will be hard evidence that the radical right has more money than brains.
By Beavis on Feb 28, 2006 | Reply
Finally, a group I can believe in! I went to the website and signed up! I may even get there by next month if the job transfer/relocation package comes through fast!
By K on Feb 28, 2006 | Reply
All things considered we should encourage them and if possible help them. Have a bake sale or something so they can move there. With global warming and the increasing strength of the hurricanes South Carolina will be under water within a few decades and problem solved. No more right wing christian fundamentalist, or at least a lot fewer of them.