So how close is Republican Congressional candidate Daniel Webster, running against Democratic Representative Alan Grayson for Floridas 8th Congressional District, to evangelist Bill Gothard
? That question is now politically salient because of Gothards participation in a radical Christian political movement called Christian Reconstructionism that seeks to impose stoning as a form
of capital punishment for crimes including murder, adultery, heresy, and witchcraft.
(for more on Christian Reconstructionism, see story appendix)
They won’t hesitate, of course, to condemn radical Muslims
for wanting to impose Sharia law on those under them–failing
to recognize their own wishes to do similarly, but under the guise of Christianity.
Yet they condemn extremist Muslims.