Hillary’s Spiritual Guide
Or at least, one of them. Doug Coe, leader of “The Fellowship”, a shadowy group in Washington DC and sponsor of the National Prayer Breakfast is a Clinton “genuinely loving spiritual mentor and guide to anyone…”
From Mother Jones:
Coe’s friends include former Attorney General John Ashcroft, Reaganite Edwin Meese III, and ultraconservative Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.). Under Coe’s guidance, Meese has hosted weekly prayer breakfasts for politicians, businesspeople, and diplomats, and Pitts rose from obscurity to head the House Values Action Team, an off-the-record network of religious right groups and members of Congress created by Tom DeLay. The corresponding Senate Values Action Team is guided by another Coe protégé, Brownback, who also claims to have recruited King Abdullah of Jordan into a regular study of Jesus’ teachings.
The Fellowship’s long-term goal is “a leadership led by God—leaders of all levels of society who direct projects as they are led by the spirit.” According to the Fellowship’s archives, the spirit has in the past led its members in Congress to increase U.S. support for the Duvalier regime in Haiti and the Park dictatorship in South Korea. The Fellowship’s God-led men have also included General Suharto of Indonesia; Honduran general and death squad organizer Gustavo Alvarez Martinez; a Deutsche Bank official disgraced by financial ties to Hitler; and dictator Siad Barre of Somalia, plus a list of other generals and dictators. Clinton, says Schenck, has become a regular visitor to Coe’s Arlington, Virginia, headquarters, a former convent where Coe provides members of Congress with sex-segregated housing and spiritual guidance.
Now I might be just a little angry about how she’s used Jeremiah Wright in the past week, but all I will say is this: I would much rather have a man like Jeremiah Wright who is up front, out there, and lets you and the world know exactly what he’s thinking, than a shadowy figure in a large mansion overlooking the Potomac that organizes prayer groups into “cells”.
My own inside knowledge compels me to say that folks like this are the ones who encourage all the hatred toward gays, for example. Isn’t there just a bit of hypocrisy here? Okay, maybe more than a bit?
More about “The Fellowship” and Hillary’s connections.
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