December 29, 2011
At first it seemed like the moment
of triumph for the Ron Paul for President campaign. The Texas
congressman had won the endorsement of Rev. Phillip G. Kayser, a
prominent right-wing Nebraska pastor, just as momentum built toward a
possible big win for Paul in next week's GOP caucuses in neighboring
Iowa, where evangelicals comprise a majority of voters.
The campaign issued a press release lauding Kayser and trumpeting his endorsement, citing
"the enlightening statements he makes on how Ron Paul's approach to
government is consistent with Christian beliefs." Then came word of
Kayser's "Christian belief" in applying the death penalty for gay male
sex, and the Paulites got busy scrubbing their press release from the
campaign Web site. (The text of the release and a screen shot can be seen on the Web site Outside the Beltway.).
What reporters Pema Levy and Benjy Sarlin of TPM uncovered
when they scrolled through Kayser's writings on his Web site, Biblical
Blueprints, were not simply the rantings of a random fringe preacher,
but a "blueprint" for the philosophy of Christian Reconstructionism,
which seeks to make manifest biblical law as the law of the land. That
would include the death penalty not only for the practice of sex between
men, but also for adultery and insubordination by children. READ MORE
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