In the book The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the heart of American power, author Jeff Sharlet examines the power wielded by a secret group known as the Christian family or community. Founded in 1935 in contrast to Roosevelt's New Deal, the views of the evangelical religion and politics are so singular, that some other Christian-right organizations, they consider heretical The group also has a connection to a home in Washington, DC, known as a C-road. Owned by a foundationassociated with the family, C Street is officially registered as a church, in practice serves as a meeting place for politicians, including Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina, Senator John Ensign of Nevada and Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn. The Family, Sharlet writes, is responsible for founding the annual National Prayer Breakfast, an alleged ecumenical - but implicitly Christian - President's party conference, members of Congress and dignitaries from around the world. These foreignersand repay the family with access to their governments - are often the delegation of staff of the top cap, which led them as an opportunity, the people most influential lobby in Washington. The group's approach to religion, Sharlet says, are based on "a sort of trickle-down fundamentalism", which means it stops the rich and powerful, when "make their hearts right with God is a blessing ... for the picture without them. "Members of the group passionately support free markets, inI am ...
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