This may have already been discussed here, but I did a quick keyword search and did not find it. I apologize if it's repeated material.
Cross posted on Horse Head Soup.
It seems that everybody's favorite histrionics enthusiast, skin-tight designer jeans collector and pink-faced half-wit, Glenn Beck, may be more than just a rabble rouser. According to Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank, he may also be trying to fulfill a Mormon prophecy predicting the rise of an American theocracy led by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which Beck is a member. (Story here.)
According to Milbank, Beck is using coded language to send a message to Mormons that events described in the so-called "White Horse Prophecy" are at hand. Specifically, Milbank cites Beck's repeated description of the Constitution "hanging by a thread."
"I feel the Constitution is hanging in the balance right now, hanging by a thread unless the good Americans wake up."
"I heard Barack Obama talk about the Constitution and I thought, we are at the point or we are very near the point where our Constitution is hanging by a thread."
This last example was from an interview with Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, also a Mormon, who concurred with Prophet Beck's assessment that "the Constitution is hanging by a thread."
The White Horse Prophecy is attributed to LDS founder and noted con man Joseph Smith, who in addition to excavating magic tablets and bedding young women to whom he was not married also apparently found time to dabble in soothsaying. It states that "the day would come when there would be so much of disorder, of secret combinations taking the law into their own hands, tramping upon Constitutional rights and the liberties of the people, that the Constitution would hang as by a thread." When that day comes the Elders of the Mormon church will step in to re-establish order.
A significant portion of Beck's conservative fan base is made up of evangelical Christians. I wonder how many of them know that their hero is a Mormon, or that his deranged rantings contain secret messages heralding the dawn of a Mormon theocracy in the United States?
In a related story, Mitt Romney recently bought a stable of Lippizaner horses.