Does Hillary Have a Family Secret?
A shocking article published in The Nation, written by social critic and 1998 Humanist of the Year Barbara Ehrenreich, takes a scathing look at presidential contender Hillary Clinton and her involvement with an ultra-secretive conservative group known as “The Family.”
Also known as “The Fellowship,” members of The Family are Capitol Hill legislators that gather for Bible study and group prayers. Hillary has been an active participant since winning the Senate in 2006, and evidence shows she was involved in The Family’s activities as early as 1993.
Perhaps this is nothing more than a gathering of dedicated religious leaders for private group worship. But Ehrenreich suggests it goes far beyond that, referring to an upcoming book by Jeff Sharlet, who uncovered the following:
The Family’s most visible activity is its blandly innocuous National Prayer Breakfast, held every February in Washington. But almost all its real work goes on behind the scenes–knitting together international networks of right-wing leaders, most of them ostensibly Christian. In the 1940s, The Family reached out to former and not-so-former Nazis, and its fascination with that exemplary leader, Adolf Hitler, has continued, along with ties to a whole bestiary of murderous thugs.
At the heart of The Family’s American branch is a collection of powerful right-wing politicos, who include, or have included, Sam Brownback, Ed Meese, John Ashcroft, James Inhofe and Rick Santorum. They get to use The Family’s spacious estate on the Potomac, The Cedars, which is maintained by young men in Family group homes and where meals are served by The Family’s young women’s group. And, at The Family’s frequent prayer gatherings, they get powerful jolts of spiritual refreshment, tailored to the already powerful.
Humanists often say that religion shouldn’t play a role in politics, but that doesn’t mean it does anyway. So when the time comes, how will Hillary explain her relationship with “The Family” to the millions of church-state separation supporters in America?
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The Nation article references a much more nuanced Mother Jones article from 2007:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/hillarys-prayer.html . The Mother Jones article raises very serious problems with Senator Clinton’s views on the separation of church and state without the ratcheted up rhetoric of The Nation piece.
This article almost has me laughing. Do you know how many “Christians” write conspiracy stories like this? So many it is embarrassing.
As a Christian, I’m always given a “right wing” label. If Hilary is now right wing, please take me out! What is funny to me how easy it would be to pull up whole web sites dedicated to Hilary being part of some top-secret, anti-Christian conspiritorial group.
I’m not mocking, but to be honest I almost laughed when I read this. I thought it was a parody of all the “Christian” political conspiracy web sites. As a matter of fact, I just tried the link to the original story to make sure it was not (link did not work). If it makes anyone feel any better, they can probably go to their local Christian book store and find some book that traces Hilary’s family back to the {’evil’} Freemasons and “proof” that somehow her name, put in a mirror, held upside down and given a numerical significance will come out 666. (If you did not know, this would get her thrown out of most any “Christian, right wing” parties.
Tell ya what…if you won’t vote for her, I won’t either.
Rob, Sorry about the link. It was working before. However, to see the story go to the Mother Jones web-site and type “Hillary’s Prayer” into the search function to see it.