Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

C Street and the Religious Right

Commentary By Ron Beasley


The Religious Right has been a quiet supporter of C Street/The Family but with the recent publicity C Street has received they are taking a second look. 


World World Magazine, the magazine of the Religious Right, has a C Street expose in it's most recent edition.



Sustained media attention has focused on whether the C Street house conclaves had contributed to or condoned the breaking of marital vows: Just what was in the water at C Street to prompt the three�all GOP political and social conservatives who a decade ago called for former President Bill Clinton's resignation�to fall into similar scandals of their own?


But adultery is not new in Congress or in the church, and aside from three men shattering their families' lives, a larger story emerged of the group behind the C Street row house: a 60-year-old, globally reaching organization that has muddy theology and a disdain for the established church.


......


Other regulars say associates reprimand them for using the term "the Fellowship," and tell them to call the group "the Family."


In fact, said Halverson, "they used to call themselves the Christian mafia�and they would laugh. Meaning one family is in strong power and then other families around that family have some power. . . . I would have been considered one of the families that have power."


They also take a look at the shady finances.


Jeff Sharlet on The Rachel Maddow show explains the significance:



As Sharlet explains the Religious Right has figured out that "The Family" teaches that Jesus has one set of rules for the rich and powerful and another set of rules for everyone else.


Posted by at
Labels: ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)