turning over rocks

By Mark | April 12, 2005

I followed a link from Metafilter earlier and wound up on Frederick Clarkson’s page reading all about radical Christian nationalist David Barton, a man who, it seems, not only wants to see America become a Christian theocracy under “Biblical law,” but also seems to have a few fans in Congress. It’s interesting and terrifying stuff… especially the information about the time he’s been spending with Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist. I thought that you might want to check it out. (The weird thing is, I just went back to reread the Metafilter post and it’s gone…. Eerie, huh?)

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4 Comments

mark

Posted April 13, 2005 at 7:37 am | Permalink

I forgot to mention it, but Barton is also Vice-Chair of the Texas Republican party.
George Hotelling

Posted April 13, 2005 at 11:50 am | Permalink

The post is still visible at http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/41158 and includes the reason it was deleted (“And so? I don’t see the reason you posted this.”). I agree that it wasn’t a very good post, even if it did link to an interesting guy.
Patty

Posted April 14, 2005 at 4:56 pm | Permalink

Scary article:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7235393?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single7
mark

Posted April 15, 2005 at 7:41 am | Permalink

Thanks, George, for letting me know what happened with that MetaFilter post… And thanks, Patty, for the link. I moved it up to the front page so that everyone could see it. (Lots of our RSS friends don’t read comments.)