Oh this isn't scary

Hat tip to Carlos, this article on Sam Brownback is indeed eye-opening. Couple of very interesting things. 1) the Senator's obsession with sex kind of confirms our thoughts on the matter. 2) and holy shit, take a look at the cell organization that this semi-secret evangelical group uses and 3) it strikes me as kind of funny that while the religious right routinely discusses the phantom desire of gay Americans to take over the country, many evangelical organizations, including Sam Brownback's evangelical cell, explicitly want to take over the world.

Just a sample:

"Brownback was placed in a weekly prayer cell by 'the shadow
Billy Graham' -- Doug Coe, Vereide's successor as head of the
Fellowship. The group was all male and all Republican. It was a
'safe relationship,' Brownback says. Conversation tended toward the
personal. Brownback and the other men revealed the most intimate
details of their desires, failings, ambitions. They talked about
lust, anger and infidelities, the more shameful the better -- since
the goal was to break one's own will. The abolition of self; to
become nothing but a vessel so that one could be used by God.

They were striving, ultimately, for what Coe calls 'Jesus plus
nothing' -- a government led by Christ's will alone. In the future
envisioned by Coe, everything -- sex and taxes, war and the price
of oil -- will be decided upon not according to democracy or the
church or even Scripture. The Bible itself is for the masses; in
the Fellowship, Christ reveals a higher set of commands to the
anointed few. It's a good old boy's club blessed by God. Brownback
even lived with other cell members in a million-dollar, red-brick
former convent at 133 C Street that was subsidized and operated by
the Fellowship. Monthly rent was $600 per man -- enough of a deal
by Hill standards that some said it bordered on an ethical
violation, but no charges were ever brought."(emphasis mine)