John Whitehead - He's out to get your kids and you under the laws of HIS God.
John Whitehead - He's out to get your kids and you under the laws of HIS God.
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 18th 1998: It's no accident that Paula Jones and Susan Carpenter McBimbo -- her "handler" -- ended up on the doorstep of the bogus Rutherford "Institute," a launching pad for cretins like John Whitehead and a bunch of misguided undereducated lawyers who either answered some wild-ass "calling" or failed to get a position in a real law firm.
The Rutherford "Institute" adopted Paula Jones as their own sometime around the date she fired Gilbert Davis, who is alleged to have urged Jones to "take the money and run" when Bill Clinton's lawyer, Bob Bennett, was toying with the idea of settling with Jones et al in order to give the President a break from lynch-mob hell.
Jones, in it for the money from the start, was outraged. But she had no money to hire another legal team. Who better to go to than a gaggle of ultra-right failed lawyers housed in a non-profit organization with lots of money sucked from the coffers of American Jesus-freaks who think being gay is a crime and having an abortion to save a mother's life or a child's sanity is a sin?
So Jones gave up whatever little honor she had, and became a pawn of John Whitehead, and later lawyer Donovan Campbell -- a right-wing gay basher from Texas whose only claim to fame is pushing anti-homosexual legislation -- in the name of God.
Whitehead and Campbell are way out of their league and barely treading water in the Jones v. Clinton case. The American public seems convinced that Jones is a trashy trailer park whore who embellished on her story that the President whipped out the gubernatorial private parts in order to seduce her one sorry day in Little Rock.
Why? For the money, stupid!
Snippets now leaking from Jones' deposition clearly indicate that Jones is a deluded gold digger and now a sometime-lobbyist for the Christian right. Her manner of talking, what's important to her, and her description of the alleged encounter with Clinton are laughable at best. Her allegation that she "received no flowers" on some Hallmark-invented holiday as an indication that Clinton was out to "get her" is painful -- even to her handlers -- and more than once during her deposition even her own lawyers must have cringed at her dumber-than-dumb answers.
Now Whitehead, who takes every opportunity to appear on talk television, is in a box. His "Institute" not only took on a great expense adopting Jones, but put itself right smack dab on the line -- exposing its chicanery, and perhaps illegality, to the world.
The "Institute" is a Virginia-based sting operation. Virginia -- seemingly a schizophrenic state -- is home to nearly every huge Christian fundamentalist cult and residence of the top money sharks who ply cable television late at night and early in the morning scaring the bejeezes out of the elderly and just plain stupid -- telling them that sending money to God is a sure route to heaven.
Virginia is also the home of Democrat liberal thinking and the Clinton based Democratic Leadership Council which turned the DNC into the NEW RNC overnight. Topping the list of Psychochristian felons in Virginia is Pat Robertson who, in our opinion, steals money from the rich and the poor -- anyone hoping for a free pass to the pearly gates through tithe. That's Robertson's right. The nation's foolish debate over separation of church and state has left it powerless to stop these crooks -- but they'll pay their dues to the real God.
The "Institute" garners its name from Samuel Rutherford, a batty 17th-century Scottish minister, who was best known for his hatred of the King of England. Sam Rutherford said that, as kings were not divine, kings' laws were not above God's laws and asked his minions to disobey any royal decrees that failed to follow "God's laws."
John Whitehead, by adopting Rutherford as the name of his cult, seems to be saying he will hold Congress and the President liable to the same pledge: no American laws that don't agree with HIS bible.
You can puke now.
Ne'er-do-well attorney John W. Whitehead, "writer/filmmaker" Franky Schaeffer, and a coven of "concerned Christians" formed Rutherford to act as "the legal arm of Christian civil liberties in this country." Sure, and Oreos are white with black filling.
Schaeffer -- a real looney toone -- said "modern-day courts issue laws which are contrary to God's law." Whitehead believes, according to an article by Martin Mawyer published in the May 1983 issue of the Moral Majority Report, "that courts must place themselves under the authority of God's law."
You can puke again.
The "Institute" contends that "all of civil affairs and government, including law, should be based upon principles found in the Bible." That statement is a moronic definition of Christian Reconstruction, a hilarious movement within evangelical Christianity.
At the start, the "Institute" was militant and continues to be so. "We need to be very aggressive…" Whitehead said. "Take the initiative. Sue rather than waiting to be sued. That's where we've been weak. We've always been on the defensive. We need to frame the issue and pick the court. The institute, if necessary, will charge that government is violating religious freedoms rather than the church waiting for the government to charge it with violating the law."
Well, John, who ever sued a Church or a real religious "Institute?" Whitehead, you can be certain that a taxpayer will bring a suit challenging your tax exempt status. That person or group of people will win. You'll probably go to jail and your "Institute" will die the slow death it deserves -- under God's laws.
"Franky" Schaeffer, another Rutherford founder and spawn of the "theologian" Francis Schaeffer, wrote Bad News for Modern Man: An Agenda for Christian Activism, a road map for irrational and radical Christians. As a "writer and filmmaker, " Schaeffer played an frightening role in the emergence of the Religious Right.
A vicious opponent of abortion for any reason , he said: "Every church should be involved in the pro-life movement. Abortion clinics must be picketed nonstop. Doctors who wish to murder the innocent must be harassed and driven from our communities." Some allege that Schaeffer's words and perhaps actions are the root cause of murders of doctors who perform abortions and the bombing murders of innocents at abortion clinics throughout the nation.
In 1990, for reasons of "religious purity," Schaeffer joined the Greek Orthodox Church. The Christian Right, uncomfortable with this, edged him out over time. Thank the Lord for small favors.
John Whitehead's 1982 book, The Second American Revolution, which he claims "sold" well over 100,000 copies, supposedly established the Rutherford Institute as a "leading" far-right Kristian-Kook organization, more like a cult than an institute.
The Second American Revolution contains numerous laudings to a Presbyterian minister named Rousas John (R.J.) Rushdoony. A too-prolific writer, Rousas is known, to himself, as "the father of Christian Reconstruction."
He runs a cult called Chalcedon.
According to Rushdoony's "brochure," The Ministry of Chalcedon, -- Ha, ha, haha, ha -- "Chalcedon was instrumental in establishing the Rutherford Institute, the purpose of which is to aid lawyers in the defense of religious liberties."
But the truth is that Rushdoony served as a Director of the Rutherford Institute and helped form it to have access to what some call "an ultra-right and private law firm funded by idiots" and only for the use of the ultra right Christian movement. Rousas often speaks at Rutherford "conferences" -- or covens as we like to call them.
In the view of Whitehead and of most "Christian Reconstructionists," every aspect of society, including law, medicine, education, the media, and the arts and entertainment, should be based upon THEIR interpretation of the Bible. Strict interpretation includes swift justice for sinners, including the death penalty for abortionists, "unrepentant" homosexuals, and, even "incorrigible sons." Ha, ha, haha.
You can puke once more.
Alexis I. Crow, a mouthpiece with the Rutherford Institute, told one writer that "John Whitehead is not a Reconstructionist and he never has been."
That's convenient. While Whitehead may claim not to be a Reconstructionist, he is certainly almost totally influenced and even controlled by them. Besides his affiliation with Rushdoony and splendid references to Rushdoony's writings -- in "The Second American Revolution," Whitehead declares his own Reconstructionist-like beliefs all the time.
Whitehead sees the mission of the Christian church as one of DOMINATION. "The church," Whitehead writes, "has a mandate from the Creator to be a dominant influence on the whole culture."
The Republican Party is trapped in a net of these crazies woven by sociopaths like Whitehead and to a lesser extent Ralph Reed, and to a greater extent his successor Randy Tate who just spent well over a million dollars in Maine to defeat gay rights. The GOP is trying hard to "ward off" domination by religious extremist vampires -- but with little success. And in the end, it's flirtation with these kooks that will result in Republican loss of the House and Senate as America smells the truth.
In 1982 Whitehead addressed this very issue. "Getting involved in local politics will eventually mean Christians running for office . This will include attending and eventually taking control of party conventions where grass-roots decisions are made." Ha, ha, haha!! Read that, Newt, and weep.
Christian Reconstructionists want to take control of America's legal and educational system as well . Whitehead says, "The challenge of the Christian attorney is to be a vocal, dynamic spokesman for the true legal profession -- the one with Christ at its center -- and to stop at nothing less than reclaiming the whole system."
Sound like Adolf Hitler? You bet.
On education, Whitehead writes, "The public education system, which includes the entire educational structure up through the university level, must be reinstilled with Christian theism. If there is little hope of revamping public education -- and this is more than a probability -- then Christians must remove their financial support from the system."
Sounds like anarchy to me. Hey IRS -- is that Kosher? Having a tax-exempt "Institute" pleading for chaos?
"The Rutherford Institute is an organization that defends the rights of ALL religious persons," according to its spokesperson, "regardless of denomination or creed and, as such, has defended, among others, Christians, Jews, atheists, Santerians, Native Americans, and Hare Krishna."
Of course, and probably by mistake. That's the key to creeping up on society. Pretend to believe something you don't.
Defend what you despise. It's a winner.
Rutherford, of course, will not defend Unitarians that believe in abortion in certain circumstances for religious reasons. Nor would they defend Christian gays.
Many religious people are gay Christians. They believe God has created them homosexual, and accept that as a gift from God. How many times has the Rutherford Institute defended the rights of gays and lesbians? Never! Their supporters instead bash homosexuals and homosexuality at every opportunity.
The Rutherford Institute does not really defend the rights of all religious people either. They instead seek special privileges for Christians -- such as helping Christians discriminate against gays in housing, equal rights and employment. Are they defending John Travolta in Germany?
Operating on an annual budget which some say is well over $8 million, the "Institute" and its team of moronic lawyers are coming to your town. You can count on it.
They have about 300 "active cases" -- including space case Paula Jones. Sure, they take on a few matters involving true religious freedom -- like wearing crosses and other religious symbols as jewelry by teenaged gangsters. However, it is clear that the Institute is little more than a cult which pursues the agenda first outlined by John Whitehead and Franky Schaeffer.
"We must influence all areas of life including law and politics," Whitehead stated. "We can leave nothing untouched by the Bible."
We think that's enough reason to explore their tax exempt status and a solid foundation upon which women in this country can tell Paula Jones to "get lost girl."
The Editors
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