"I want to migrate and claim the gold of the Lord," said the 38-year-old oil company executive from Pennsylvania. "I want to replicate the statutes and the mores and the scriptures that the God of the Old Testament espoused to the world."
DiMartino, who drove here recently to look for a new home, is a member of Christian Exodus, a movement of politically active believers who hope to establish a government based upon Christian principles.
Christian Exodus activists plan to take control of sheriff's offices, city councils and school boards.
Eventually, they say, they will control South Carolina. They will pass godly legislation, defying Supreme Court rulings on the separation of church and state."We're going to force a constitutional crisis," said Cory Burnell, 29, an investment advisor who founded the group in November 2003."
If necessary," he said, "we will secede from the union."
Sounds like a good deal to me. You go make your own little Jesusland and leave my country alone. We will continue to welcome all people regardless of their religious beliefs and make sure the government does not trample on anyboys civil rights.
We are not going to let you fruitcakes have any nuclear weapons either. Thats not safe in the hands of religious zealots.
