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Clinton's Family Ties.

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"Clinton fell in with the Family in 1993, when she joined a Bible study group composed of wives of conservative leaders like Jack Kemp and James Baker. When she ascended to the senate, she was promoted to what Sharlet calls the Family's 'most elite cell,' the weekly Senate Prayer Breakfast, which included, until his downfall, Virginia's notoriously racist Senator George Allen." From the gander to the goose, Barbara Ehrenreich looks at Clinton's own questionable religious ties with an ultrasecret conservative bible study group, The Family, about which a book is due in May. "This has not been a casual connection for Clinton. She has written of Doug Coe, the Family's publicity-averse leader, that he is 'a unique presence in Washington: a genuinely loving spiritual mentor and guide to anyone, regardless of party or faith, who wants to deepen his or her relationship with God.'"

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