Mysterious cult backs Bush

[quaoar]

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/01/18/State/Veiled_sect_hails_Bus.shtml

Veiled sect hails Bush, Martinez

By LUCY MORGAN, Times Tallahassee Bureau Chief

TALLAHASSEE - A mysterious committee backed by members of a secretive religious group whose members are forbidden to vote spent more than $500,000 on newspaper ads last year supporting President Bush and U.S. Senate candidate Mel Martinez.

The Thanksgiving 2004 Committee raised the money from residents of 18 states, plus $377,262 from Bruce Hazell of London, England. None of the money was raised in Florida, according to a report filed with the Federal Elections Commission.

The group of men who formed the committee belong to the Exclusive Brethren, a reclusive religious group with roots in England and Australia. The group includes members from Knoxville, Tenn., Omaha, Neb., and other U.S. cities. Members of the Exclusive Brethren do not vote, read newspapers, watch television or participate in the outside world, according to published reports. So why would they care who gets elected in the United States?

That's hard to say and members contacted by the St. Petersburg Times wouldn't say anything except to praise President Bush and say they wanted to see him re-elected.

[tmooses]

1. Apparently, they want someone elected who knows as much about

world politics as they do.

[librechik]

2. Knoxville rings a naughty bell in the Bush cv

isn't that where his gay boyfriend is mayor?

[orpupilofnature57]

3. KKKarl rove, might be helpful, in identifying people that got air time

Without being responsible for it.How did shrub slip in the backdoor,elitists backed by fundementally common folk.

[charlie]

4. Long BBC piece on the Exclusive Bretheren here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/subdivisions/brethren/

And like a hackneyed movie plot, there was a nookie scandal involving their leader:

James Taylor jr was found in bed with one of his female followers in 1970. He protested his innocence but the scandal damaged the movement and 8,000 members left, splitting many families.

[blm]

5. Of course cult leaders love Bush. Bush and Moon are ultimate cult leaders

who have pushed their powerbase far beyond any other cult leader of the last century, eclipsing even Hitler.