Toward an American Theocracy

The march toward an American theocracy continues, led by a bunch of fundamentalist self-labeled patriots who have more in common with the Taliban than with America's founding fathers. In AlterNet, Hanna Rosin reports on Patrick Henry College, an institution that was considered to be a joke when it opened. But now, as Rosin reports:

I first visited Patrick Henry College in September 1999, a year before the school opened its doors. The "school," that afternoon, consisted of founder Michael Farris, a Christian homeschooling activist, manning an excavator on a construction site just off a Virginia highway exit. Farris was affable, his usual manner with reporters, as he laid out the plans for his revolution. The school would enlist the purest of born-again Christians in a war to "transform America" by training them to occupy the highest offices in the land." Year after year, it would churn out future congressmen, governors, and federal judges, until they finally had the majority. "Few students will know more about the political ramifications of reinforcing homosexuality through special rights than ours," he told me. One day, he bragged, he would introduce the ultimate graduation-day speaker: "President So and So, an alumnus of Patrick Henry."

Scares the shit out of me.