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God and Country by Dan Gilgoff

Sanford Cites Secretive Christian Group's Role in Helping Confront Affair

June 24, 2009 05:45 PM ET | Dan Gilgoff | Permanent Link | Print

Reader Comments

Keep your religion

out of my government!

National Prayer breakfast;

Dear Mr. President, Scrap being a guest--take control and have a prayer breakfast at the whitehouse!! mr buddy in Pgh

Annual Prayer Breakfast?

It's time to end the annual "Prayer Breakfast" if its hosts are these folks from The Family! To continue with their support now that we know what we know would be a joke on all of us. Mr. President.....distance yourself before its too late! Any thing this conspiritorial can't be good! Don't be fooled... just because they call it "faith" doesn't mean its good for the masses, especially if the objective is superiority of power. We have enough power mungers as it is. The last thing we need is them claiming their power is bestowed upon them by their maker.

Could Norm Coleman have been living here?

No kidding, he told the press he was only paying $600 a mo for aan apartment when he worked in DC. I wouldn't put it past him. He was a New Yorker, turned Minnesotian. Jewish turned something else, and a democrat turned republican. His nose was so brown when he left Washington I wouldn't be surprised.

The Family

Wow America this FAMILY is really scarey stuff

WAKE UP!

Protect your constitution

Before he steals your rights away!!

tax fraud

this is nothing more than tax fraud...using a charitable organization to purchase a home..then live in the home at below market rent or housing rates.

seriously... it's no wonder the city of DC doesn't have the necessary tax revenues to support it's citizens..

$600/month rent?

even those living in the DC slums pay more than $600/month.

bet $600/month is below what DC pays for section 8 vouchers!

someone ought to file a fraud suit.

this organization isn't even listed as a "sister" organization on the main website!

tax fraud! tax cheats! all of them!

dumbest members of congress??

I'm from SC and Mark Sanford and Jim DeMint(ed) are surely 2 of the most simple minded individuala ever elected dog catcher, much less to Congress. But, opportunistic & manipulative beyond belief.

How 'bout you guys from other states who have "men" living at C Street, are your representatives the dimmest you've ever known to get elected?

Religious Wrong

The so called Religious 'Right' are largely just a bunch of Self-Righteous HYPOCRITES that like to judge everyone else as if there is no log in their eye. They are also largely IGNORANT, Myopic, Half-Wits who lack any circumspection. They operate as though believing something is true makes it so, and that facts are not fixed, by definition, but can be changed at will by just believing them to be facts. They completely lack any ability to distinguish between fact and opinion. Bunch of inbred troglodytes. They would all become extinct if they were to suffer the punishments that they prescribe for others, as they are the biggest offenders of what they judge in others. HYPOCRITES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you know, this is a frightening reality....

of course, Bob of TN has to make it a homophobic thing. there are so many scarey things about this beyond the immorality of them supporting each other in their "affairs". they are a political group of white men, with power, who believe that they are "the chosen of god" and that morals don't matter for them, just everyone "lower than them". the fact that most are the ones who have been caught cheating on their wives, yet were the ones to ask clinton to leave office is not to be ignored. Beyond the fact that they make tons of money, pay very little rent as they "masqeurade" as a church - taking advantage of tax laws and "counsel" each other about how to keep their affairs out of the public eye. It came out tonight that some of the "girlfriends" even slept under the very roof with Ensign and Sanford. a group of white men who believe they are "morally superior" to the rest of the world as "god's chosen" who admit they are a secret society and believe they are "above the moral code of ethics" and ARE part of our government is pretty darn frightening to me. I am afraid there is some really bad stuff that is going to come out of this. MUCH more than we know yet. MUCH MORE. This "cult" would be considered like the branch dividians - well, except they are high ranking white government officials, christians and well, powerful! Except for those "little facts", I believe David Koresh would have enjoyed living there too. UGH.

C Street

I think C Street will turn out to be a religious based Cult that is filled with Homophopic Gays. Every single one of these that have been identified appear to be Gay.

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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