Exposed: ‘C Street’ and The Military

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Hezekiah wrote:

I love to read about almost any kind of sexual perversion, but religionist sex just creeps me out.

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Steve wrote:

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How about Fundamentalist Christian Perversion ?
Behind the closed doors on C Street
The Family — which has counseled Sen. John Ensign — lives and prays as a fundamentalist group with power at the center of its agenda
Sunday, July 19, 2009 | 2 a.m.
The scandal over Nevada Republican Sen. John Ensign’s extramarital affair with an employee has renewed interest in a secretive fundamentalist Christian group known as The Family, with whom he lives when in Washington, D.C.
Ensign last month admitted to an affair with Cynthia Hampton, whose husband, Doug Hampton, was a top aide to Ensign and his best friend. After Doug Hampton asked The Family to intervene, members confronted Ensign at the group’s house on C Street in Washington.
On Wednesday, the author of a book about The Family was interviewed on KNPR-FM’s public affairs show “State of Nevada.” Author Jeff Sharlet, a contributing editor to Harper’s and Rolling Stone magazines, lived with The Family in early 2002. His book,“The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power,” was published last year by HarperCollins.
The following is an account of the State of Nevada interview, conducted by host Dave Berns. It has been condensed and edited for clarity.
Dave Berns: Scandals involving John Ensign and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford placed a spotlight on The Family. The group’s town house in Washington is a former convent with a chapel and, according to federal tax records, is registered as a church. Tenants pay below market rent.
We asked Sharlet which is the bigger story: the sex scandals, or the public conversation about The Family.
Jeff Sharlet: The story begins with these scandals. The question is, do you make the bigger connection? The real issue is not who Ensign or Sanford sleep with, but the organizations with which they pursue their policies and the sources to which they turn for moral and religious authority.
I think that is starting to come out, particularly with Ensign, because we see the role The Family plays in the cover-up. Doug Hampton said The Family had a role in moving money around for the affair, which I think a lot of outsiders look at as hypocritical. Knowing The Family, I understand that that’s not hypocritical from its perspective — that it’s actually a form of doing God’s work.
Berns: Talk about the relationship between members of The Family — they are men, not women — and the role they play as a larger group.
Sharlet: The Family began with this idea that God does not work through churches but rather through those whom The Family calls the “New Chosen.” They believe they’re chosen by God. They can’t be expected to pray with the rest of us. They need to pray in private with people of equal status.
When you join one of these prayer groups, you give these men veto power over your life, over every aspect of your life. Wives involved with The Family have said,“In my husband’s life, his brothers come first, I come second.”
We saw that happening with the men Doug Hampton went to see. They were exercising veto power over Ensign’s life.
A lot of us might think that sounds fine, they were helping him stay on the straight and narrow. But when we look at the people exercising this veto power, in particular David Coe, who has been in the news as sort of working with Ensign, you have some really questionable moral authority.
read more here: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jul/19/b...

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Steve wrote:

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How about Fundamentalist Christian Perversion ?

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Steve wrote:

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How about Fundamentalist Christian Perversion ?
Behind the closed doors on C Street
The Family — which has counseled Sen. John Ensign — lives and prays as a fundamentalist group with power at the center of its agenda
Sunday, July 19, 2009 | 2 a.m.
The scandal over Nevada Republican Sen. John Ensign’s extramarital affair with an employee has renewed interest in a secretive fundamentalist Christian group known as The Family, with whom he lives when in Washington, D.C.
Ensign last month admitted to an affair with Cynthia Hampton, whose husband, Doug Hampton, was a top aide to Ensign and his best friend. After Doug Hampton asked The Family to intervene, members confronted Ensign at the group’s house on C Street in Washington.
On Wednesday, the author of a book about The Family was interviewed on KNPR-FM’s public affairs show “State of Nevada.” Author Jeff Sharlet, a contributing editor to Harper’s and Rolling Stone magazines, lived with The Family in early 2002. His book,“The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power,” was published last year by HarperCollins.
The following is an account of the State of Nevada interview, conducted by host Dave Berns. It has been condensed and edited for clarity.
Dave Berns: Scandals involving John Ensign and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford placed a spotlight on The Family. The group’s town house in Washington is a former convent with a chapel and, according to federal tax records, is registered as a church. Tenants pay below market rent.
We asked Sharlet which is the bigger story: the sex scandals, or the public conversation about The Family.
Jeff Sharlet: The story begins with these scandals. The question is, do you make the bigger connection? The real issue is not who Ensign or Sanford sleep with, but the organizations with which they pursue their policies and the sources to which they turn for moral and religious authority.
I think that is starting to come out, particularly with Ensign, because we see the role The Family plays in the cover-up. Doug Hampton said The Family had a role in moving money around for the affair, which I think a lot of outsiders look at as hypocritical. Knowing The Family, I understand that that’s not hypocritical from its perspective — that it’s actually a form of doing God’s work.
Berns: Talk about the relationship between members of The Family — they are men, not women — and the role they play as a larger group.
Sharlet: The Family began with this idea that God does not work through churches but rather through those whom The Family calls the “New Chosen.” They believe they’re chosen by God. They can’t be expected to pray with the rest of us. They need to pray in private with people of equal status.
When you join one of these prayer groups, you give these men veto power over your life, over every aspect of your life. Wives involved with The Family have said,“In my husband’s life, his brothers come first, I come second.”
We saw that happening with the men Doug Hampton went to see. They were exercising veto power over Ensign’s life.
A lot of us might think that sounds fine, they were helping him stay on the straight and narrow. But when we look at the people exercising this veto power, in particular David Coe, who has been in the news as sort of working with Ensign, you have some really questionable moral authority.
read more here: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jul/19/b...

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Steve wrote:

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" When you join one of these prayer groups, you give these men veto power over your life, over every aspect of your life. Wives involved with The Family have said,“In my husband’s life, his brothers come first, I come second.” "
Wow, women come in second, now that's what I call Fundamentalist perversion !

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Vanessa HPU wrote:

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When a pervert preaches about perversion he is immediately discredited as a hypocrite.
Poor poor Steve so confused! This is a story about infidelity and adultery.
Perversion is a story about what Steve and SteveAnn do.

Steve wrote:

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Good point Vanessa HPU, so the Perverted C Street Fundamentalist Christians are also Hypocrites ! How's that Bratwurst and Beer Vanessa HPU ?

Vanessa HPU wrote:

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Yes the C Street Fundamentalist wolves in sheep clothing are hypocrites for their immorality and adultery but their not perverts. A pervert and a hypocrite is what you are for the disgraceful and disgusting things you and SteveAnn do "you've got a lot of nerve" to call others perverts. That makes you a hypocrite!

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Steve wrote:

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I'd wager it is you who is the hypocrite and pervert ! Where do you get your Bratwurst and Beer Vanessa HPU ? Is this the same Vanessa HPU who will not site the Bible Verse that the local FUNdamentalist men, who pervert Bible text, use to discriminate against women within their own Church walls ? Come on Vanessa HPU, surely you know of this current day perverted interpretation of the Bible !

Vanessa HPU wrote:

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I this the same Steve on a soapbox preaching against perversions? If you want to be a preacher Steve! Then you’re going to have to give up sodomizing SteveAnn.
Romans 1:26-27
That is why God abandoned Homosexuals to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this perversion, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved.
Still severing up the cancer causing dangerous processed meats?
Burrrrrrp!

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Steve wrote:

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Was that a Burrrrrrp from you digesting your Bratwurst and Beer ? Where does Vanessa HPU get her Bratwurst and Beer ?

Vanessa HPU wrote:

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I this the same Steve on a soapbox preaching against perversions? If you want to be a preacher Steve! Then you’re going to have to give up sodomizing SteveAnn.
Romans 1:26-27
That is why God abandoned Homosexuals to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this perversion, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved.
Still severing up the cancer causing dangerous processed meats?
Burrrrrrp!

downunderthunder wrote:

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The preceding statement makes one wonder if the author was in the room, or possibly at the window. We all know good christians are never judgemental and would never cry 'witch'.
Then there is the Freudian slip about the 'severed' dangerous meat.

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Vanessa is pounding Steve!
SteveAnn that is too funny!
Poor Steve!