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<div>=</div><div><a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Marjorie+Taylor+Greene" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene</a> (R-GA) expanded her white Christian nationalist attacks on Monday, barely one week after again promoting the racist “<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Great+Replacement+Theory" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Great Replacement</a>” theory <a href="https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2022/10/10/tommy-tuberville--marjorie-taylor-greene-push-racist-rhetoric-at-trump-rallies" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">at a Trump rally</a>.Speaking with <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Charlie+Kirk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Charlie Kirk</a>, a far right wing radio host, founder of Turning Point USA, and member of the highly-secretive Christian organization Council for National Policy, Greene repeatedly attacked <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Raphael+Warnock" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock</a> (D-GA), the senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, which was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s church in Atlanta.Greene has publicly embraced the “<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/07/marjorie-taylor-greenes-christian-nationalist-declaration-is-alarming-says-religious-liberty-executive/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Christian nationalist</a>” label for herself and has repeatedly made racist, antisemitic, and anti-LGBTQ remarks while also promoting Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” that Joe Biden stole the election, COVID and vaccine misinformation, and Vladimir Putin’s falsehoods.READ MORE: <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/09/dont-call-us-fascists-marjorie-taylor-greene-blasts-news-media-after-criticism-over-her-feral-hog-hunting-stunt/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Don’t Call Us ‘Fascists’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Blasts News Media After Criticism Over Her Feral Hog Hunting Stunt</a>Less than two weeks ago Greene posted to Twitter that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/07/mtg-censure-house-democrats/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">President Joe Biden “is Hitler.”</a> Democrats are seeking to censure her for those remarks.“I truly feel that Herschel’s going to win” the U.S. Senate race against Sen. Raphael Warnock, Greene told Kirk.She said Rev. Warnock “calls himself a Christian, calls himself a pastor, but preaches abortion from the pulpit.”NCRM could find no evidence that Rev. Warnock “preaches abortion from the pulpit,” but being a pro-choice Christian is <a href="https://religionnews.com/2020/12/18/rev-warnock-blasted-for-being-a-pro-choice-pastor-but-his-position-isnt-uncommon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">actually the norm in America</a>.Kirk interjected into Greene’s rant, “it’s so sick.”READ MORE: <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/08/biden-white-house-smacks-down-marjorie-taylor-greene-in-a-tweet/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Biden White House Smacks Down Marjorie Taylor Greene in a Tweet</a>“It’s such an abomination,” Greene continued, to which Kirk agreed.“It’s completely wrong and evil,” she concluded.Americans United, which calls itself “the only organization dedicated solely to defending the separation of church and state,” <a href="https://www.au.org/the-latest/articles/cnp-secret-group/#" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">last year called</a> the Council For National Policy the “scariest Christian nationalist group you’ve never heard of,” and “probably the most dangerous group you’ve never heard of.”READ MORE: <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/04/marjorie-taylor-greene-likened-nato-to-nazis-just-hours-after-russian-state-tv-did-the-exact-same-thing-reports/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Marjorie Taylor Greene Likened NATO to Nazis ‘Less Than 12 Hours’ After Russian State TV Did the Same Thing: Reports</a>“Formed in 1981, in part by Religious Right activist and author Tim LaHaye, the CNP is an umbrella organization of religious and secular far-right groups whose leaders meet regularly to plot strategy and share information. They’ve been quietly pulling the strings of ultra-conservative politics for four decades.”Watch Greene below or <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/10/abomination-marjorie-taylor-greene-suggests-black-democratic-senator-and-pastor-raphael-warnock-is-not-a-christian/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">at this link</a>.</div><div>=</div><div>
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</div><div>Some Christian nationalist organizations love the limelight. Their leaders revel in appearing in the media. They give speeches at major events, write books and basically do all they can to keep themselves front and center. Think of the Rev. Jerry Falwell when he founded the Moral Majority in the late 1970s. For a time, he seemed to be everywhere.</div><p style="min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: var(--sy); margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: var(--lh, var(--lh_1)); transition-property: var(--t8n_p1); box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.562225px; background-color: rgb(238, 239, 237);">Then there are groups that prefer to work behind the scenes, in the shadows. They shun scrutiny. The people who run them are far from household names. They work to be unknown.<p style="min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: var(--sy); margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: var(--lh, var(--lh_1)); transition-property: var(--t8n_p1); box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.562225px; background-color: rgb(238, 239, 237);">These groups are probably more dangerous because nobody knows what they’re doing, how they’re doing it and how much money they’re spending to influence public policy in an attempt to force everyone to live by their beliefs.<p style="min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: var(--sy); margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: var(--lh, var(--lh_1)); transition-property: var(--t8n_p1); box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.562225px; background-color: rgb(238, 239, 237);">
<p style="min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: var(--sy); margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: var(--lh, var(--lh_1)); transition-property: var(--t8n_p1); box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.562225px; background-color: rgb(238, 239, 237);">The Council for National Policy (CNP) is probably the most dangerous group you’ve never heard of. Formed in 1981, in part by Religious Right activist and author Tim LaHaye, the CNP is an umbrella organization of religious and secular far-right groups whose leaders meet regularly to plot strategy and share information. They’ve been quietly pulling the strings of ultra-conservative politics for four decades.<p style="min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: var(--sy); margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: var(--lh, var(--lh_1)); transition-property: var(--t8n_p1); box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.562225px; background-color: rgb(238, 239, 237);">
<p style="min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: var(--sy); margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: var(--lh, var(--lh_1)); transition-property: var(--t8n_p1); box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.562225px; background-color: rgb(238, 239, 237);">Every now and then, a journalist lifts the veil on the group. In 2004, New York Times reporter David Kirkpatrick got unprecedented access to the group and attended a CNP meeting in New York City. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/28/us/2004-campaign-conservatives-club-most-powerful-gathers-strictest-privacy.html" style="min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: var(--lh, var(--lh_1)); transition-property: var(--t8n_p1), color; --aocn: currentColor; --atch: var(--c_d2t); --aow: var(--aown); --aoc: var(--aocn); --abc: var(--abcn); --atc: var(--atcn); --aop: var(--aopn, 1); box-shadow: 0 var(--aow, 1px) 0 0 var(--aoc, " currentcolor="currentColor" background="background" var="var" abc="abc" transparent="transparent" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" opacity="opacity" aop="aop" webkit-tap-highlight-color="webkit-tap-highlight-color" rgba="rgba" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box">Kirkpatrick wrote</a> that the CNP consists of “a few hundred of the most powerful conservatives in the country” who meet “behind closed doors at undisclosed locations … to strategize about how to turn the country to the right.”<p style="min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: var(--sy); margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: var(--lh, var(--lh_1)); transition-property: var(--t8n_p1); box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.562225px; background-color: rgb(238, 239, 237);">Later that year, <a href="https://www.au.org/church-state/october-2004-church-state/featured/behind-closed-doors" style="min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: var(--lh, var(--lh_1)); transition-property: var(--t8n_p1), color; --aocn: currentColor; --atch: var(--c_d2t); --aow: var(--aown); --aoc: var(--aocn); --abc: var(--abcn); --atc: var(--atcn); --aop: var(--aopn, 1); box-shadow: 0 var(--aow, 1px) 0 0 var(--aoc, " currentcolor="currentColor" background="background" var="var" abc="abc" transparent="transparent" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" opacity="opacity" aop="aop" webkit-tap-highlight-color="webkit-tap-highlight-color" rgba="rgba" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box">I wrote about the CNP</a> for Church & State, observing, “What amazes most CNP opponents is the group’s ability to avoid widespread public scrutiny. Despite nearly a quarter century of existence and involvement by wealthy and influential political figures, the CNP remains unknown to most Americans. Operating out of a non-descript office building in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Fairfax, Va., the organization has managed to keep an extremely low profile – an amazing feat when one considers the people the CNP courts.”<p style="min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: var(--sy); margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: var(--lh, var(--lh_1)); transition-property: var(--t8n_p1); box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.562225px; background-color: rgb(238, 239, 237);">
<p style="min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: var(--sy); margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: var(--lh, var(--lh_1)); transition-property: var(--t8n_p1); box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.562225px;">Now another reporter, Robert O’Harrow Jr. of <em style="background-color: rgb(238, 239, 237); min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: var(--lh, var(--lh_1)); transition-property: var(--t8n_p1); box-sizing: border-box;">The Washington Post, has produced <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/10/25/god-trump-closed-door-world-council-national-policy/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3516e3c%2F6176d4c19d2fda9d41237667%2F5a0cb4989bbc0f564939e219%2F27%2F72%2F6176d4c19d2fda9d41237667" style="background-color: rgb(238, 239, 237); min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: var(--lh, var(--lh_1)); transition-property: var(--t8n_p1), color; --aocn: currentColor; --atch: var(--c_d2t); --aow: var(--aown); --aoc: var(--aocn); --abc: var(--abcn); --atc: var(--atcn); --aop: var(--aopn, 1); box-shadow: 0 var(--aow, 1px) 0 0 var(--aoc, ;" currentcolor="currentColor" background="background" var="var" abc="abc" transparent="transparent" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" opacity="opacity" aop="aop" webkit-tap-highlight-color="webkit-tap-highlight-color" rgba="rgba" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box">an article exposing the machinations of the CNP</a>. O’Harrow’s piece, “God, Trump and the Closed-Door World of a Major Conservative Group,” examines in part how former President Donald Trump, a biblically illiterate figure of questionable personal morality, won over so many evangelical leaders in 2016. (Spoiler: The CNP had something to do with it.)<p style="min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: var(--sy); margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: var(--lh, var(--lh_1)); transition-property: var(--t8n_p1); box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.562225px; background-color: rgb(238, 239, 237);">O’Harrow also provides an in-depth history of the group and information culled from recordings of CNP meetings. As O’Harrow notes, the CNP operates alongside a dizzying array of far-right groups, some of which backed Trump’s efforts to steal the 2020 election and are now involved in voter-suppression campaigns. The network O’Harrow describes is octopus-like in its reach and ambition. The CNP doesn’t just share Christian nationalists’ goal of a theocratic America, it seeks to roll back every bit of progress, social or economic, our country has made since the New Deal.<p style="min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: var(--sy); margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: var(--lh, var(--lh_1)); transition-property: var(--t8n_p1); box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.562225px; background-color: rgb(238, 239, 237);">
<p style="min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: var(--sy); margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: var(--lh, var(--lh_1)); transition-property: var(--t8n_p1); box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.562225px; background-color: rgb(238, 239, 237);">Near the end of the article, O’Harrow writes, “In their quest to remake our country – to purge it of the cultural and political decay they believe has sapped it of virtue – CNP members are looking backward to receding triumphs. But it’s clear they’re also looking forward – and they are as determined as ever to shape the nation’s future.”<p style="min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: var(--lh, var(--lh_1)); transition-property: var(--t8n_p1); box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.562225px; background-color: rgb(238, 239, 237);">From the shadows, the CNP has been working to remake America in its theocratic image for 40 years. Unfortunately, it has enjoyed many successes. The first step to reversing those is to throw a lot more light on this organization, its leadership, its tactics and its goals.<p style="min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(22, 22, 21); line-height: var(--lh, var(--lh_1)); transition-property: var(--t8n_p1); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: interstate, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">