Theorists of the anti-abortion movement

• Leaderless Resistance: Wonder Weapon of the Antis  Fred Wallace examines the favorite ill-tempered, dull-witted theory of the reactionaries. They propose to lead without apparently having anyone in charge.

• Creationism   A great majority of the anti-abortion protesters, both Catholic and Protestant, are opposed to Darwin's theory of the evolution of the species.

• Supreme Usurpation - Abortion and the Law   An article by Joseph Sobran in the John Birch Society's New American, arguing that

  1. At the beginning of the Civil War, "Abraham Lincoln’s stated aim was to preserve the Union . . ." but that this intention "gave way to the then-'revolutionary' goal of changing the internal social systems of the Southern states. By 1863 the war to preserve the Union had become a war to abolish slavery."

  2. The Supreme Court overstepped its authority in both Brown v. Board of Education, which overturned legal segregation, then later in Roe v. Wade, which overturned legal prohibition of abortion.

• Pamphlets by "Scribner"   A collection of pamphlets on America's "blood guilt" due to abortion. Proposals for rewriting the Constitution, plans for organizing righteous insurrection.
  
• The Rapture Factor: Why conservative Christians' love of Israel is intertwined with the Battle of Armageddon  A widely held expectation of Christ's return is tied to certain developments in the state of Israel.

• Praying for Armageddon  September 1, 2002 - The religious right is galvanized at the prospect of a cosmic reward for itself and eternal punishment for everybody else.

• Evangelicals at war over 'spiritual warfare'  May 10, 2003 - Evangelical adherents to the theory of spiritual warfare believe that "Christians regularly become captive to indwelling demons, which are often said to specialize in particular sins, geographic locations, objects or age groups."

Condemning "Feminization" of Church and Culture

Should Christian young ladies go to college?  According to this authority's lights, it's not necessary for leading a godly life as a wife.

An "Ode" To Womyn (And Piggish Men)  December 1, 2003 - According to Matt Abbott, women have entirely gotten out of line, and so have some guys like Bill Clinton.

Sentimental Religion: The Feminization of American Christianity  "At the outset it must be clearly stated that “feminine” is a beautiful quality, when found in women." "Theology of intellect has given way to a theology of feeling."

Pickled Masculinity  All the masculine traits that boys admire seem to be linked with paganism and apostasy, while the church offers an effeminate setting. "This wrongheaded view of masculinity perpetuates itself in the same manner as the US Post Office, by eliminating competition."

When Mamma Wears Combat Boots  April 14, 2003 - "The Bible is clear. God never asks women to carry the sword in time of war. In fact, He specifically teaches against this practice in Deuteronomy 22:5. This is the familiar passage where God declares that women mustn't dress like men and vice versa."

The Church Must Oppose the Sin of Women at War  April 18, 2003 - Vision Forum Ministries is opposed to "the idea that a free people can survive while sending mothers and daughters to war."

Female Warriors and Feminized Men  April 15, 2003 - "To have women serving as soldiers on the battlefield is an abomination in the eyes of God and ought to be an offense to righteous men and women."

Critics Aside, 'Military Moms' Are Here to Stay  May 28, 2003 - "the substitution of brainpower for brawn makes it more possible for women to be combatants."

A Woman's Place Is In The Home  November 22, 1999 - "Do I feel that we should bar all women from careers or public life? No, there will always be exceptions."

PATRIARCHY - The Urgent Need for Biblical Manhood   Fatherhood is "a word that has been abused, trampled on, ignored, and mocked by raging hyperfeminists and discarded by irresponsible, self-centered, hedonistic males. . . . The bottom line is, we have become a feminized nation. Biblical manhood has been neutered by a two-pronged attack. It comes from without (the man-hating, Jezebel spirit perpetuated by the Feminist Movement) and from within (men who passively submit to being feminized)."

The Feminization of Christianity: Culture Vs. Doctrine – Which Will Stand?  Steve Wetzel of Missionaries to the Unborn asks "What has brought about the change from 'hell, fire and brimstone' preaching of days gone by, to the let’s be 'nicer than Jesus' mentality today?" He answers by pointing to a trend of women wishing to preach and exercise authority over men. "What curses will we see fall upon the Church for its men failing to stand, and its women breaking all restraint?"

Female Clergy Gospeling an Unbiblical "Gospel"   October 23, 2002 - "These females-in-clerical-garb are not of God. They are of the enemy and therefore will answer to the One who is in charge of His church."

How Feminism has murdered the West  April 11, 2002 - " . . .a primary contributor to declining birth rates in the West: gender feminism."

Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood   It is necessary to recover Biblical manhood and womanhood because "in the home, the husband's loving, humble headship tends to be replaced by domination or passivity; the wife's intelligent, willing submission tends to be replaced by usurpation or servility."

QUALITY TIME: What Does It Really Mean?   "The removal of the mother from the home to perform the male function of provider also blurs the line of demarcation between the sexes, humiliates the male, and causes general gender confusion."

Conservative Labels U.S. as 'Thoroughly Feminized Country'  April 12, 2002 - "A conservative Christian radio commentator and Baptist pastor says America is a thoroughly feminized nation where women dominate the home, church, and the country's political structure."

Just look at the women who vote  "The number one group in favor of socialism are women." "The gang that wishes to be liberated are eager to enslave in order to achieve their own freedom."

The Gap In The Gender Gap  November 3, 2002 - The author finds women to be too easily swayed in a liberal direction. Thus women's right to vote has had disastrous consequences: "The time may have to come – in order to save the Republic – when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution will have to be repealed."

Fem Control for Starters  December 1, 2002 - Pastor J Grant Swank explains how feminism started in the Garden of Eden. "What was the snake into by tempting female to disobey deity? Slithery one was into establishing Female Control over male." Even the BVM got out of line: "She egged Jesus to prematurely change water to wine to surprise the wedding host with His powers. Jesus gently put Mary’s Female Control in place, informing her to wait until the proper moment."

"Date Rape" On Campus  Columnist Murray N. Rothbard argues there's no such thing as "date rape." "The point is that, as in so many other aspects of human 'relationships,' the feminists are setting out to destroy romance (if that word is not yet obsolete), which thrives on spontaneity, and on implicit, non-verbal mutual understanding."

Feminists Serve Secular Humanism  "The natural and proper role of gender has been perverted to conform with the distorted view of religious humanists. Ignored and denied are the teaching of biblical revelation."

Christian Reconstructionism, Theonomy, Post-Millenialism

• Chalcedon Foundation Homepage    The home page of Christian Reconstructionism, featuring lengthy and learned articles from the current theoretical heavyweights. Assassin Paul Hill drew on these resources to cobble together a justification for murder.

• Roe V. Wade …The Silent Cry  January 22, 2003 - An essay on the Chalcedon Foundation website that lays out the theonomists' views against abortion.

• National Reform Association  "Explicitly Christian Politics." They have articles such as "A Defense of the State's Duty to Confess Its Allegiance to Christ" and "The State: Inescapably Religious."

• Dehumanization: The Humanistic Agenda  ". . . man's root sin is humanism - the desire to be his own god." The Reconstructionists find a recent development to be especially menacing: environmental humanism.

• People Pleasers: Sophistry In The Ministry  November 20, 2002 - "The death penalty as it was given to Moses was punishment for several sexual sins, it was the remedy for murder and for disrespect toward ones parents." "If cursing, striking, or rebelling against parents might result in death, how many thousands of young men and women who now are entangled in our judicial system would have opted to obey and how many additional industrious and obedient adults would be available to benefit society?"

• Eschatology and the Power of Myth  October, 2002 - The Chalcedon Foundation condemns the "Left Behind" crowd as "cultural retreatists who don't plan on being around much longer."

• Center for Cultural Leadership  Head of the Center is P. Andrew Sandlin, who is otherwise well known as a frequent contributor to the reconstructionist website The Chalcedon Foundation.

• Classic Covenanter, Presbyterian, Puritan & Reformed Quotes from Various Authors -- Arranged by Topic   A huge (340K) grabbag of quotes from authorities, ranging back to founding documents of the Church of Scotland, on topics the Reconstructionists still favor today. Under "civil government" is the following: "It is the duty of the civil magistrate to suppress all false religion and to establish the true reformed religion (in doctrine, worship, and government) by law within his realm."

• Interview with Rushdoony   Rousas John Rushdoony explains his family's role in the Armenian Orthodox Church: "Our family provided a priest for the church from somewhere around the year 315 to the present. And up through my grandfather's day, it was at the family's expense. This was not always father and son; it was sometimes father and brother, or father and nephew. In my case, I am the eigth [sic] generation of father and son."

• Second American Revolution: Rousas John Rushdoony   Interview covers questions like "Can Christians impose Christian morality on non believers?" " But wouldn't a Christian Republic run according to God's Law become oppressive to non-Christians?"

• United Reformed News Service

Critical Articles on Right-Wing Religious Phenomena

• Goodman: Leave theocracy to rule the heart, not the land  August 28, 2003 - Columnist Ellen Goodman argues that the individual has the right to cherish individual belief, but not the right to impose it on all.

• Christian Reconstruction   The author criticizes Reconstructionists for giving the secular political views of the American right wing equal stature with Scripture.

• Christian Reconstructionism, Dominion Theology and Theonomy   "If they [the Reconstructionists] gained control of the US or Canadian federal government, there would be many changes." Among the changes this site enumerates: expansion of the death penalty for "adultery, blasphemy, heresy, homosexual behavior, idolatry, prostitution, evil sorcery". There would be no right to choose abortion.

• Dominion Theology - Test for the Marks   Cites "Eleven Marks of Perverted Authority" that characterize the Dominionists.

• Antis and the End of the World   Some believe that Christ cannot return to rule the world until his most faithful followers have established a world-wide theocracy.

• There's Something About Gary   Wired Magazine presents a lengthy article on Gary North, son-in-law of R.J. Rushdoony. Like many of R.J.'s followers he yo-yos rapidly in and out of favor with the old man.

• Apocalyptic Millenialism   Public Eye, an organization devoted to researching the right, presents a set of nested essays on end-of-the-world scenarios. Sections include Where did Satan Come From?, Symbol and Metaphor in Revelation, History of Demonization, Millennial Expectation and the Year 2000.

• Next Step on the Road to Dominion   How Operation Rescue's activism is based on Dominionist ideas. "The concept that America was founded in a covenant with God, and that breaking that covenant will bring about God's wrath, is shaping the attitudes of a growing subculture with an influence far greater than its relatively small size."

• Christian Reconstructionism and the Far-Right   A contribution to the debate on the relationship of far-right ideology to paramilitary violence. The text of an essay, "The Creed of Christian Reconstructionism," followed by commentary from BACORR (Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights), defenders of the pro-choice cause.

• PRO-SOCS Pro-Separation of Church & State   Traces the history and current connections of the theocratic right in the US, with special attention to Reconstructionism.

• Jesus Plus Nothing: Undercover among America's secret theocrats  Reporter Jeffrey Sharlet spends weeks undercover among the cult that sponsors the National Prayer Breakfast.