For some time now, there's been publicity over a small but rather well publicised push for the ultimate in steeplejacks--a group called "Christian Exodus" who plans to have dominionists invade South Carolina en masse in the hopes of getting enough of a "critical mass" to secede from the United States and become an independent theocracy. (Perhaps they either failed to pay attention in U.S. History as to how well South Carolina's last secessionist government fared--or perhaps they've been swayed too much by neo-Confederate groups who promote "The South Shall Rise Again" as a neo-secessionist movement. The neoconfederate League of the South ditched some of their pushes for South Carolina secession when "Christian Exodus" made their announcement, the leader of Christian Exodus is himself part of the neo-Confederate movement, and the group supports the Constitution Party to such an extent I'd be shocked if they weren't getting ideas from some of the "Christian Patriot" and more racist neo-Confederate groups.)

Needless to say, the fine people of South Carolina have largely not been terribly happy about this; news released today indicates one of these Not Happy People includes a prospective employer of Cory Burnell--ironically placing him as being unable to move to the very state he was proposing half the dominionists in the US move to:

ANDERSON (AP) -- The co-founder of a movement to get conservative Christians to move to South Carolina so they can take over the government through the ballot box has delayed his own move to the state.

Christian Exodus co-founder Cory Burnell planned to relocate from California to Anderson County sometime this week. But he said the publicity surrounding the move caused his would-be employer to take away its offer. He wouldn't name the company.

Christian Exodus plans to move families into Anderson County to influence local elections, then spread throughout South Carolina.

Burnell has said 15 Christian Exodus families are already living in the county, with another two dozen families planning to move there by 2008.

Nice to know some employers are still doing due diligence :3