Bruce Wilson reports:
In a dead heat with Democratic Party candidate Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, Tom Tancredo is the official candidate of the Constitution Party whose platform claims "The U.S. Constitution established a Republic rooted in Biblical law" and declares, "The goal of the Constitution Party is to restore American jurisprudence to its Biblical foundations."
The Constitution Party was founded in the early 1990s by followers of the late theologian R.J. Rushdoony, who advocated the imposition of Christian government based on his own interpretation of "Biblical law." A virulently racist Holocaust-denier, Rushdoony's vision of "Biblical law" included "Biblical" slavery and the stoning, beheading, or burning at the stake, as forms of capital punishment, of adulterers, homosexuals, and women who have intercourse before marriage. Rushdoony also believed that the Sun rotates around the Earth.
Though mainstream media coverage of this aspect has been sparse and shallow, a few alternative press writers such as Alternet's Adele Stan have covered Tom Tancredo's candidacy in the context of the Constitution Party's roots in Rushdoony's movement, called Christian Reconstructionism.
