One of my biggest gripes with the media is that they play down the ignorance and intolerance of so may of my fellow Americans. They like to pretend there a few Ted Nugent gunloons running loose in Arizona, when in reality there are 10s of millions of them just aching to shoot a Negro in their driveway. As too, they present Westboro as a handful of Kansas Nutcakes.
There are said to be 10,000 Christian Reconstructionist churches in America. Adhering to the theology of Rousas John Rushdoony. You may recall the legal arm of the movement, The Rutherford Institute, who took on Paula Jones as a client as the basis of the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton. Christian Reconstructionism is also the Mother of the growing home schooling movement in America. It’s theology is based upon replacing the US Constitution with Biblical Law.
The reinstatement of the Mosaic law’s penal sanctions. Under such a system, the list of civil crimes which carried a death sentence would include homosexuality, adultery, incest, lying about one’s virginity, bestiality, witchcraft, idolatry or apostasy, public blasphemy, false prophesying… Rousas Rushdoony on Wikipedia is a good starting place for this insane crap