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Gonzales:  If, indeed the Reconstructionist movement ever made it in America, would you advocate these biblical principles being carried out: the execution of the adulterer, the abortionist, and the homosexual?

Gonzales:  If, indeed the Reconstructionist movement ever made it in America, would you advocate these biblical principles being carried out: the execution of the adulterer, the abortionist, and the homosexual?

DEMAR: I'm saying that they could be implemented, yes. <ref>From the radio show “Sound Off”, WSB Atlanta, Georgia, hosted by Paul Gonzales, 1991</ref>

DEMAR: I'm saying that they could be implemented, yes.<ref>From the radio show “Sound Off”, WSB Atlanta, Georgia, hosted by Paul Gonzales, 1991</ref>

Many Christian Reconstructionists advocate the reinstitution of slavery as a punishment for non-capital offenses. Rushdoony has written, "The law here is human and also unsentimental.  It recognizes that some people are by nature slaves and will always be so. It both requires that they be dealt with in a godly manner and also that the slave recognize his position and accept it with grace.” What this “position” would involve is explained by David Chilton in his book, “Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt.”  

Many Christian Reconstructionists advocate the reinstitution of slavery as a punishment for non-capital offenses. Rushdoony has written, "The law here is human and also unsentimental.  It recognizes that some people are by nature slaves and will always be so. It both requires that they be dealt with in a godly manner and also that the slave recognize his position and accept it with grace.” What this “position” would involve is explained by David Chilton in his book, “Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt.”  

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The current concept of American citizenship would change drastically in a Christian Reconstructionist America and become contingent on whether or not an individual adhered to CR Doctrine. As Christian Reconstructionist writer and activist Gary North has written, “The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant--baptism and holy communion--must be denied citizenship, just as they were in ancient Israel. <ref>Political Polytheism: The Myth of Pluralism, Page 87</ref> Christians who reject Christian Reconstructionism could very well find themselves charged with the capital offense of Idolatry, as R. J. Rushdoony defines it:  

The current concept of American citizenship would change drastically in a Christian Reconstructionist America and become contingent on whether or not an individual adhered to CR Doctrine. As Christian Reconstructionist writer and activist Gary North has written, “The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant--baptism and holy communion--must be denied citizenship, just as they were in ancient Israel.<ref>Political Polytheism: The Myth of Pluralism, Page 87</ref> Christians who reject Christian Reconstructionism could very well find themselves charged with the capital offense of Idolatry, as R. J. Rushdoony defines it:  

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“All who are content with a humanistic law system and do not strive to replace it with Biblical law are guilty of idolatry. They have forsaken the covenant of their God, and they are asking us to serve other gods. They are thus idolaters, and are, in our generation, when our world is idolatrous and our states also, to be objects of missionary activity. They must be called out of their idolatry into the service of the living God.

“All who are content with a humanistic law system and do not strive to replace it with Biblical law are guilty of idolatry. They have forsaken the covenant of their God, and they are asking us to serve other gods. They are thus idolaters, and are, in our generation, when our world is idolatrous and our states also, to be objects of missionary activity. They must be called out of their idolatry into the service of the living God.

‘Christian’ man is thus doubly a sinner when he is antinomian and despises God's law: he has denied the law in Adam, and now, with consummate profanity, he denies it in the name of Christ. He thus doubly denies the everlasting covenant, and doubly transgresses the laws.” . <ref>Law and Society: Volume II of the Institutes of Biblical Law, R. J. Rushdoony, pp 468, 316</ref>

‘Christian’ man is thus doubly a sinner when he is antinomian and despises God's law: he has denied the law in Adam, and now, with consummate profanity, he denies it in the name of Christ. He thus doubly denies the everlasting covenant, and doubly transgresses the laws.” .<ref>Law and Society: Volume II of the Institutes of Biblical Law, R. J. Rushdoony, pp 468, 316</ref>

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“Idolatry is thus not only punishable by law as socially detrimental, it is in fact a capital offense. It constitutes treason to the King or Sovereign, to Almighty God.” . <ref> The Institutes of Biblical Law, R. J. Rushdoony</ref>

“Idolatry is thus not only punishable by law as socially detrimental, it is in fact a capital offense. It constitutes treason to the King or Sovereign, to Almighty God.” .<ref>The Institutes of Biblical Law, R. J. Rushdoony</ref>

NonChristians would be forced to navigate the perilous line between the practice of their private convictions and the CR definition of “proselytizing.” The stakes would be quite high, since according to The Institutes of Biblical law, “proselytizing” could very well be defined as a form of “blasphemy,” one of the crimes punishable by death:  

NonChristians would be forced to navigate the perilous line between the practice of their private convictions and the CR definition of “proselytizing.” The stakes would be quite high, since according to The Institutes of Biblical law, “proselytizing” could very well be defined as a form of “blasphemy,” one of the crimes punishable by death:  

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“The seventh principle thus forbids the unbelieving testing of God: God's law is the testing of man; therefore, man cannot presume to be god and put God and his law-word on trial. Such a step is a supreme arrogance and blasphemy; it is the opposite of obedience, because it is the essence of disobedience to the law. Hence, it is contrasted to a diligent keeping of the law. This obedience is the condition of blessing: it is the ground of conquest and of possession, in terms of which the covenant people of God, His law-people, enter into their inheritance. <ref> The Institutes of Biblical Law, R. J. Rushdoony</ref>

“The seventh principle thus forbids the unbelieving testing of God: God's law is the testing of man; therefore, man cannot presume to be god and put God and his law-word on trial. Such a step is a supreme arrogance and blasphemy; it is the opposite of obedience, because it is the essence of disobedience to the law. Hence, it is contrasted to a diligent keeping of the law. This obedience is the condition of blessing: it is the ground of conquest and of possession, in terms of which the covenant people of God, His law-people, enter into their inheritance.<ref>The Institutes of Biblical Law, R. J. Rushdoony</ref>

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  “When someone comes and proselytizes for another god or another final authority (and by the way, that god may be man)--when someone tries to undermine the commitment to Jehovah which is fundamental to the civil order of a godly state--then that person needs to be restrained by the magistrate. However, this does not mean that individuals should be punished for holding heretical views, the views that Baptists think are heretical or Lutherans think are heretical and so forth. It simply means that those who will not acknowledge Jehovah as the ultimate authority behind the civil law code which the magistrate is enforcing would be punished and repressed. You would, therefore, be open, I believe, to hold Muslim views or Hindu views in the privacy of your own home, provided it was not a Christian home that you've now come into to subvert and draw away from Jehovah. You would be able to hold these views as a private conviction. But you would not be allowed to proselytize and undermine the order of the state..” . <ref>”An Interview with Greg Bahnsen,” Calvinism Today, Jan. 1994</ref>

  “When someone comes and proselytizes for another god or another final authority (and by the way, that god may be man)--when someone tries to undermine the commitment to Jehovah which is fundamental to the civil order of a godly state--then that person needs to be restrained by the magistrate. However, this does not mean that individuals should be punished for holding heretical views, the views that Baptists think are heretical or Lutherans think are heretical and so forth. It simply means that those who will not acknowledge Jehovah as the ultimate authority behind the civil law code which the magistrate is enforcing would be punished and repressed. You would, therefore, be open, I believe, to hold Muslim views or Hindu views in the privacy of your own home, provided it was not a Christian home that you've now come into to subvert and draw away from Jehovah. You would be able to hold these views as a private conviction. But you would not be allowed to proselytize and undermine the order of the state..” .<ref>”An Interview with Greg Bahnsen,” Calvinism Today, Jan. 1994</ref>

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As Christian Reconstructionist John Stoos admitted to a Jewish member of a panel in which he was participating at a 1995 forum, Jews “would not have total acceptance. You would feel more at home in Israel.” . <ref> Forum sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Social Policy of Berkeley, California’s Graduate Theological Union, 1995</ref>

As Christian Reconstructionist John Stoos admitted to a Jewish member of a panel in which he was participating at a 1995 forum, Jews “would not have total acceptance. You would feel more at home in Israel.” .<ref>Forum sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Social Policy of Berkeley, California’s Graduate Theological Union, 1995</ref>

The manner in which Christian Reconstructionists hope to achieve these drastic changes in how the United States approaches religious freedom is through what is currently described as “stealth candidates,” using the very religious freedom that they are intent on denying others.  

The manner in which Christian Reconstructionists hope to achieve these drastic changes in how the United States approaches religious freedom is through what is currently described as “stealth candidates,” using the very religious freedom that they are intent on denying others.  

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“So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.” <ref> “The intellectual Schizophrenia of the New Christian Right” in Christianity and Civilization: The Failure of the American Baptist Culture, No 1, 1982</ref>

“So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.” <ref>“The intellectual Schizophrenia of the New Christian Right” in Christianity and Civilization: The Failure of the American Baptist Culture, No 1, 1982</ref>

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