Marc Nuttle is a Republican adviser and economist and
Chairman of The Oak Initiative, a far-right organization dedicated to promoting
the Seven Mountains ideology,
and whose president is none other than Rick Joyner.
The group claims in its mission statement that “The Oak Institute is being
developed to raise up effective leaders for all of the dominant areas of
influence in the culture, including: government, business, education, arts and
entertainment, family services, media, and the church,” otherwise known as the Seven Mountains of society that Dominionists think should be controlled by fundamentalist Christians.
Nuttle is in fact a pretty central figure in the religious
right wing of the Republican party and been legal counsel and political counsel
for numerous United States House of Representative campaigns (from Ronald Reagan to Pat Robertson to James Inhofe),
and has popped up in numerous positions of power around the country (Here, for
instance, is Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin appointing him to serve on the board of the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to
ensure that everything is being done to prevent abortions from taking place in
the state). In the 2012 elections he advised evangelicals, who had concerns
about Romney’s suitability given his religion (not policy issues, of course),
that they should nevertheless vote Romney since Mormons believe the US
Constitution is Biblical Truth.
That’s what goes for compelling reasoning about politics in those circles.
Diagnosis: Not the most vociferous madman out there, but a
solidly crazy piece of dingbattery nonetheless.
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