Alice, they cite the bible as a source for their rules of morality. King David had his revenge by putting to death Uriah so he could sleep with Bathsheba. He was "above the law".
This is who Doug Coe cites as being "holy" and above reproach. It's no wonder that
Ensign, Craig, Sanford and now Chip Pickering were shielded by the Family.

The Family believes that power and a kind of Christian Dictatorship will take over the world.
This view has it's roots in Calvin in Dominionism and the founder of the Family philosophically, Vereide. These religious nuts unfortunately have too much influence in the politics of the United States with their propagandistic "National Prayer Breakfasts" endorsed by Billy Graham. This "Prayer Breakfast" was a political move on the part of Coe and the Family.

Oddly enough, the Family (Coe) think of themselves not churchy which requires a kind of institutionalization but superior to that. If you can imagine Christian Nazis, that's what they look like. Coe thinks these Christians are the "chosen people" very much like the notion of a "master race".

We dismiss their influence at our peril.