Did C Street Christian Cult influence the Stupak Amendment ?

Rachel Maddow may have been the first to ask this question but certainly won't be the last to ask, how much influence did the group, The Family,  have on Bart Stupak's ( D-MI ) authoring his anti-abortion amendment to the health care bill.  Stupak has lived at the house at 133 C Street owned by a secretive religious group known as "The Family" for a long time but denies any knowledge about the group. Many believe this is due to the groups sworn secrecy as opposed to actual truth.

The Fellowship started 70 years ago according to a Rolling Stone Article by Jeff Sharlet dated 1/25/06.  The founder was an evangelist named Abraham Vereide, who started the so called God led cells comprising Senators, generals, corporate executives and preachers. Vareide believed that God's chosen would construct the kingdom of God on earth with Washington as its capitol.  They would rule behind the scenes so they wouldn't be accused of pride or hunger for power.

Dixiegrrrrl on Democratic Underground dated 7/14/09 posted that in the prayer groups they hold, the men are to reveal the most intimate details of their lives, their desires, failings and ambitions. They are to talk of lust, anger, and infidelities, the more shameful the better since the goal was to break one's own will.

The men are striving for what Jeff Coe, the current leader of The Family, calls "Jesus plus nothing." This is to be a government led by Christ's will alone. In his exortations to the faithful Coe uses a David Koresh version of Chriatianity mixed in with healthy doses of Mao, Stalin and Hitler.

The C Street house is listed in tax records as a church but it seems to function as a rooming house for some  Senators and Congressmen. Currently living in the house besides Stupak are Rep. Zack Wamp ( R-Tn.), Sen Tom Coburn ( R Ok. ), Rep. Mike Doyle ( D-Pa ), Sen John Ensign ( R-Nv ) and Rep. Heath Shuler ( D-NC ).

This house became a national focus because of the infidelities of Sen .Ensign and Gov. Mark Sanford. Sen. Tom Coburn is also alleged to have attempted to act as a middleman to broker a payoff to Ensign's mistress to keep her quiet.  Sanford claims he recieved spritiual guidance from C Street after his affair became public.

Jeff Sharlet, who has authored a book on this group once lived in another of the Families rooming houses in Arlington, Va. He stated that Stupak's denial is false. Stupak's involvement in this cult is much greater than he is admitting.  Stupak was a Family assigned mentor to some of the younger men who roomed with Sharlett and is a leader of the group.

Stupak's denial of knowledge isn't credible for another reason. The Associated Press and other media have written about The Family for 7 years so unless Stupak hasn't read a newspaper it is highly unlikely that he wouldn't know anything about C Street. Sharlett describes this ulta-secretive organization as a multi-national shadow government operating through small prayer groups called cells and modeled on the Mafia and terrorist organizations.

The blog Empty Wheel notes in relation to The Stupak amendment, that he was boasting about taking reproductive choice away from women. Many News orgaizations have attributed the Stupak Amendment to lobbying by the Catholic Church. It has also been pointed out that there is a growing influence of Christian evangelicals in the Democratic Party as a recognition that they can wield more influence on legislation that way,  as The Stupak Amendment demonstrates. 

This is why it bears investigation as to whether this ultra secretive cult that sometimes refers to itself as the Christian Mafia, is the real power behind Bart Stupak's legislating in general and the Stupak anti-abortion amendment in particular. His legislation in essence ends Roe v. Wade for most women and takes us back to back alley abortions.

In any event the crowning glory for Stupak a Michigan Democrat, is his donating $2,500.00 to Rep. Zack Wamp a Republicans gubernatorial campaign. As noted both live in the C Street cult house.