{"id":169,"date":"2008-03-24T07:41:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T07:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/feilerfaster\/2008\/03\/hillary-clintons-church-proble.html"},"modified":"2008-03-24T07:41:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T07:41:25","slug":"hillary-clintons-church-proble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/feilerfaster\/2008\/03\/hillary-clintons-church-proble.html","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton’s Church Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barbara Ehrenrich reports<\/a> that one reason Hillary has remained silent on Obama’s Wright problem is that she’s got her own church issues just waiting to burst into the open. <\/p>\n

There’s a reason Hillary Clinton has remained relatively silent during the flap over intemperate remarks by Barack Obama’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, she’s a lot more vulnerable than Obama.
\nYou can find all about it in a widely under-read article in the September 2007 issue of Mother Jones, in which Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet reported that “through all of her years in Washington, Clinton has been an active participant in conservative Bible study and prayer circles that are part of a secretive Capitol Hill group known as “The “Fellowship,” also known as The Family. But it won’t be a secret much longer. Jeff Sharlet’s shocking expos\u00e9 The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power will be published in May.
\nSean Hannity has called Obama’s church a “cult,” but that term applies far more aptly to Clinton’s “Family,” which is organized into “cells”–their term–and operates sex-segregated group homes for young people in northern Virginia. In 2002, Sharlet joined The Family’s home for young men, forswearing sex, drugs and alcohol, and participating in endless discussions of Jesus and power. He wasn’t undercover; he used his own name and admitted to being a writer. But he wasn’t completely out of danger either. When he went outdoors one night to make a cell phone call, he was followed. He still gets calls from Family associates asking him to meet them in diners–alone. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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