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CHARLESTON, S.C. (Feb. 5) -- They could have been just another gaggle of tourists walking down Meeting Street, a typical enough sight among the cobblestone and historic homes of Charleston, S.C. But what they wanted to explore were not the guidebook-endorsed attractions of this old town -- the Market, the Battery, Rainbow Row, the nearby plantations. Instead, they had come to the heart of the pre-Civil War South, the former center of the American slave trade, to discuss an idea that had once been all the rage among Charleston's ruling class: the end of the United States as they knew it.
The 40 or so visitors, most of them men, all but one of them white, were attendees of the Eighth Abbeville Institute Scholar's Conference, a four-day gabfest on the resurgent topics of state nullification and secession. At the conference, which runs through Sunday, a collection of scholars and lay folk will discuss what they see as the decided downsides to living in an imperial-minded, centralized-power-mad American Empire, one in which state's rights, personal liberties and personal connections to the land and fellow man have all but vanished.
While speaking to a large crowd of over a thousand people on the campus of Arizona State University last December, Congressman Ron Paul mentioned one thing that might come about as the result of the federal government habitually ignoring the Constitution: Nullification.
About five minutes into the video segment which you’ll find below, he said, “There’s not much attention paid to the Constitution in Washington. There’s not much attention paid to it by our executive branch of government. And we don’t get much protection from our courts. So one thing that might finally happen from this if the people finally feel so frustrated that they can’t get the results out of Washington — They’re going to start thinking about options. They might start thinking about nullification and a few things like that.”
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Several Christian Exodus members have known for years about the website for His Holy Church, and found it interesting, but were not personally acquainted with their members. In the past several months we have had two conferences, in which we met together and discussed various strategies for action. There was a camp meeting in the high desert of Bend, Oregon, for CE members from Oregon and Idaho, after which a few members traveled down to Summer Lake, Oregon, where a national convention for His Holy Church was being held. There was also a conference in Fort Mill, South Carolina, hosted by Acts In Motion ministries with Jeffrey Parrott, where His Holy Church members were the featured guests.
Both Christian Exodus and His Holy Church are similar in function and purpose. They are social networks for independent Christian living. They are places to meet other people of like mind, where we encourage one another to live and work together as members of an emerging society, which is sanctified and separate from the common ways of the world. While CE does not rise to the level of Christian covenant, and is not a church nor para-church organization; His Holy Church has a structure in place to affirm others as Christian ministers, providing spiritual accountability, without lording it over their faith and manner of living.
