ROVE'S WARRIORS

This segment of the CNN special was misnamed. I had heard a few attacks on Christiane Amanpour on wingnut radio so I figured she must of done something they find threatening. It turns out she did an expose of the extremist "Christians" in America.

Here are some excerpts:

FALWELL: Let's see to it that we keep a president and a control in the Senate and the House of men and women who believe in the moral values that this nation was built on.

FALWELL: We just got everybody registered. We got them to the polls. And they pulled an R and went on down with Rs and 12 went liberal senators went out of business.

AMANPOUR: At commencement now, Republican stars and presidential hopefuls make the required pilgrimage to Falwell's school.In 2006, John McCain delivered the commencement address.In 2007, it was Newt Gingrich.
NEWT GINGRICH: We must recognize that we are a nation founded and sustained by our Creator.

AMANPOUR: In other words, all sorts of compromise is possible in a presidential season when none among the current field of Republican candidates has excited the conservative Christian base of the party. Falwell even told me the 2008 Republican presidential nominee could meet quite a different standard than usual.(on camera): You basically said that for you, in this next election, correct me if I'm wrong...
FALWELL: It's security.
AMANPOUR: It's security...
FALWELL: Oh, yes.
AMANPOUR: ...rather than the social issues that you care so deeply about.FALWELL: Well, certainly, we'd love to get, in one package, a man, a woman, who is strong on security and right on the social issues. We've got to find the person closest to where we are.

AMANPOUR: A month before Falwell died, the Supreme Court, on a 5- 4 vote, did put an end to one practice called partial birth abortion. Justice Alito became the decisive fifth vote.
FALWELL: That is the culmination, for me, of about 35 years of work.
AMANPOUR: A welcome victory for Jerry Falwell, but not yet enough.
FALWELL: I don't think we have five votes on "Roe v. Wade". I think we are probably one or two votes short.
AMANPOUR: As we talked that last week of his life, Falwell seemed to recognize that his battle to end all abortions would have to be won by the next generation of "God's Warriors".
FALWELL: My children are more likely to see this victory won than I am. I think we're 50 years away. We've got to just stay with it, stay with it, stay with it and never give up.

AMANPOUR: Recognizing two future Christian warriors, Dean Staver arranged scholarships for both sisters to come to Liberty University. Megan hopes to go to law school.(on camera): What do you think God called you to do with a law degree or a lawyer?
MEGAN CHAPMAN: To defend Christians, to defend just civil rights in general.
AMANPOUR: So what issues are important to you, moral issues?
MEGAN CHAPMAN: The abortion issues, the gay marriage issues, the -- just situations like that.

AMANPOUR: When we return, a Christian fighting to protect the Jewish state.
JOHN HAGEE, PASTOR: The sleeping giant of Christian Zionism has awakened. We are united. We are indivisible and together we can reshape history.
HAGEE: Send a message to America, send a message to the enemies of Israel, send a message to the people of Israel. Israel, you are not alone.I believe that the Bible, the Torah, is the truth. I believe there's the Torah way and the wrong way.
AMANPOUR: And the right way says Hagee is to protect and defend Israel at all costs. Hagee is a Zionist, a Christian Zionist.
HAGEE: A Christian Zionist is someone who believes that the Bible supports Israel. God begins in the foreign policy of Israel in Genesis 12:3 saying, I will bless those who bless you and I will curse those who curse you.
AMANPOUR: You said God's foreign policy statement?
HAGEE: Yes.
AMANPOUR: God has foreign policy statements?
HAGEE: Absolutely.
AMANPOUR: And his is pro-Israel?
HAGEE: Concerning the Jewish people, that's his foreign policy statement.

RICK SCARBOROUGH, PASTOR: Evangelical Christians are estimated between 50 million and 80 million. We are the largest voting bloc in America. If 75 percent of them vote their values, we win. I'm not a Republican. I'm not a Democrat. I'm a Christ-ocrat. My allegiance is to Jesus Christ. Whenever there is a party that presents itself as a party of values, they're going to benefit from what I do.

RUSSELL JOHNSON, PASTOR: This is the Norman Rockwell view of our community. You see the steeple there for miles in both directions.
AMANPOUR: Pastor Russell Johnson of Lancaster, Ohio, may have done just that. He brought me up to this hilltop where he says he often prays for his community below.
AMANPOUR: Johnson blames evolution for a number of America's problems.
JOHNSON: We've taught them they came from animals. For 50 years, now they're acting like animals and they have a problem with that and we have a problem with that.
AMANPOUR: So evolution is the problem for anti-social kids?
JOHNSON: Is a part -- social evolution, survival of the fittest, social Darwinism has brought upon America serious problems when it comes -- if you don't respect God and you don't respect your teachers, you don't respect your parents.
JOHNSON: And some day the ACLU will go into the history and the Christ of Christmas will still stand tall.

DR. JOSEPH B. FUITEN, LEADER, POSITIVE CHRISTIAN AGENDA: They don't want anything to slow down abortions.
FUITEN: The secularists always say, you're trying to set up a theocracy. You're trying to put your values on us. And I say to myself, hey, wait a second here. This is the way it's always been in America. You come along with your secular agenda. You're the ones trying to put your values on America, not me. Our values are native here. It's yours that are foreign. You're the illegal alien here, not me.

AMANPOUR (voice-over): That attitude has been changing. According to a recent poll, 70 percent of evangelicals now see global warming as a serious threat to future generations. But listen to the late Jerry Falwell, who thought the jury was still out on global warming.
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REVEREND JERRY FALWELL, CHANCELLOR, LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: And, when you look at who is promoting it, the United Nations, no friend of the U.S. in most cases, and liberal clergymen, and some evangelicals who are uninformed.
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M. NEVARR: We'll teach them the truth, that in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And we will certainly teach them about evolution, about the theory or hypothesis of evolution.
AMANPOUR: Hypothesis?
M. NEVARR: Absolutely. It's an unproven hypothesis. I think that's safe to say.
AMANPOUR: Will you tell them it's wrong?
M. NEVARR: You know, yes. We will.
AMANPOUR: How can you be so sure?
M. NEVARR: Well, because the word of God is truth.