Over the past week, more than 600 gay and lesbian couples have wed legally, thanks to the establishment of marriage equality in Massachusetts — and certain conservative Christians can't stand it. What they call "sodomite marriage" is the last straw propelling them to work toward establishing their own Christian nation.
Run for your lives: The new Confederacy is coming!
ChristianExodus.org has been established to coordinate the move of 50,000 or more Christians to a single conservative state in the U.S. for the express purpose of reestablishing constitutional governance. It is evident that our Constitution has been abandoned under our current federal system. The efforts of Christian activism have proven futile over the past five decades and, whereas desperate times require desperate measures, we are now in the most desperate of times. The federal government is considering whether marriage, the foundation of civilization since Creation, should be reserved solely to a man and a woman. Christians must now draw a line in the sand and unite in a sovereign state to dissolve our bond with the current union comprised as the United States of America.
The organizational site of ChristianExodus.org lays out the plan: The idea is to recruit right-wing, anti-GLBT Christians to move to South Carolina. (Alabama and Mississippi are also listed as possibilities, but according to CE's mailing list, SC is amazingly attractive to conservative Christian Southern nationalists.) That state would secede peacefully from the US and set up its own Christian-only theocracy, a land "with government similar to the early United States."
The move is happening because, according to CE president Cory Burnell, millions of Americans are frustrated with the direction in which the country seems to be headed. These folks are opposed to equality under law for GLBT people, against the idea of reproductive choice, and in favor of school prayer, government presentations of the Ten Commandments, and the traditional Southern way of life. And they believe the false notion that the US was founded as a Christian nation.
Organizations already exist to promote these points of view — among them, Sons of Confederate Veterans and the League of the South. A similar effort that does not involve secession from the Union, Free State Project, hopes to establish a new federalist-Libertarian state in New Hampshire. FSP is calling for 20,000 "neighborly, productive, tolerant folks from all walks of life, of all ages, creeds, and colors" who believe in limited government, personal responsibility, and the Libertarian philosophy (which can include liberals and conservatives) — this effort is not theocratic in nature and its participants, according to the group's Web site, do not have to march in ideological lockstep. That isn't the case for the Tyler, TX-based ChristianExodus. Those who do not share in the group's view of proper Christian living and belief are not welcome in the proposed new nation of South Carolina.
Article comments
1 - Shark
Oh great.
The last time a "faith-based" nation declared "...desperate times require desperate measures..." -- the Twin Towers fell in NYC.
First Afghanistan.
Now South Carolina.
Is it safe to assume Judge Moore will become the first Monarch of the New Promised Land?
And where's General Sherman when ya need him? I might even sign up for that "march to the sea".
-- My revenge for the torture and *abuse I suffered as a child in a Baptist-run Vacation Bible School.
*see photos of a nekkid me held on a leash by a sadistic Youth Minister at a wilderness "retreat".
2 - Natalie Davis
"The last time a 'faith-based' nation declared '...desperate times require desperate measures...' -- the Twin Towers fell in NYC."
Oh, my...
Yes, this CE effort is a scary thing. You ought to take a gander at their rantings on their Yahoogroup. Frightening bunch. I can't imagine what would be negative about them separating themselves from the rest of us.