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From: Cliff on 21 Jun 2010 05:38

http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/06/20/sharron-angle-the-constitution-party-and-the-new-religious-right/
"The Constitution Party, And The New Religious Right"
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Sharron Angle, Republican nominee for U.S. Senate from Nevada was a member of
the Independent American Party, the Nevada affiliate of the Constitution Party,
for six years, 1992 through 1998, before becoming a Republican in order to
increase her chance of getting elected to office. If the Constitution Party
sounds familiar, perhaps it�s because, during the 2008 presidential campaign,
Todd Palin was revealed to have belonged, for seven years, to the Alaska
Independence Party; Alaska�s Constitution Party affiliate.

The Constitution Party is not simply a political party that supports a strict
adherence to the Constitution, as its name might suggest, but rather a party
that promotes a very specific reinterpretation of the Constitution, based on
founder Howard Phillips� commitment to Christian Reconstructionism. His son,
Doug Phillips, also involved with his father in the Constitution Party, is the
founder of Vision Forum, an organization ideologically compatible with the
Constitution Party, which describes its motivation as �a zeal for the
restoration of Biblical patriarchy.� ....
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