If you are not familiar with what that is, I recommend reading her essay. To get an sense of how the "Christian Reconstructionists plan to rule America, consider the following passage from one of their Gurus;
"The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant--baptism and holy communion-must be denied citizenship, just as they were in ancient Israel."
-- Gary North - Political Polytheism: The Myth of Pluralism, Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, 1989, p. 87.
Of course she hopes you will buy her new book as well. (I probably will). *In fact, I did. I started it last night (31 July).
Some other recent good books on the origins of America's radical Religious Right are;
Hedges, Chris
2008 “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America” New York: Free Press.
Phillips, Kevin
2006 “American Theocracy” New York: Viking Press
Sharlet, Jeff
2008 "The Family: The secret fundamentalism at the heart of American power" New York: Harper Collins
There is even a connection between the Christian Reconstructionists and the origin of "Intelligent Design Creationism" discussed in;
Barbara Carroll Forrest, Paul R. Gross
2004 "Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design" Oxford University Press
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