Right at posting time for This Week in Blogging the Religious Right, the blogosphere has erupted with breaking stories about the deeper background of the scandal involving ABC's prospective docudrama, The Path to 9/11.  It turns out that the film company behind the film is a project of Youth With A Mission, a major dominionist organization. Dave Neiwert at Orcinus details how Loren Cunningham, the leader of YWAM wove the ideas of theocratic Christian Reconstructionism into the YWAM indoctination program. And Max Blumenthal at The Huffington Post reveals how a covert rightwing propaganda operation headed by David Horowitz has been working behind the scenes, and that most importantly:

On this project, he is working with a secretive evangelical religious right group founded by The Path to 9/11's director David Cunningham that proclaims its goal to "transform Hollywood" in line with its messianic vision.

Before The Path to 9/11 entered the production stage, Disney/ABC contracted David Cunningham as the film's director. Cunningham is no ordinary Hollywood journeyman. He is in fact the son of Loren Cunningham, founder of the right-wing evangelical group Youth With A Mission (YWAM). The young Cunningham helped found an auxiliary of his father's group called The Film Institute (TFI), which, according to its mission statement, is "dedicated to a Godly transformation and revolution TO and THROUGH the Film and Televisionindustry." As part of TFI's long-term strategy, Cunningham helped place interns from Youth With A Mission's " a network?in film industry jobs "so that they can begin to impact and transform Hollywood from the inside out," according to a YWAM  report.

UPDATE:And Ishmael has some powerful background in a Daily Kos diary -- YWAM's connection to genocidal dictator, Rios Montt of Guatemala...

Rios Montt is generally credited with the murder of some 70,000 Mayan peasants, but all through the killing he maintained a love affair with the American Christian Right, which was delighted by the fact that he's an evangelical Protestant in a deeply Catholic country, converted in 1976 by American self-declared "Jesus Freaks," fundamentalist hippies. Here's where YWAM comes in:

Rios Montt's ascension to power [by coup in 1982] was celebrated by thge U.S. Christian Right as a sign of divine intervention in Central America.... In May, 1982, [Pat] Robertson told the New York Times that his Christian Broadcasting Network would send missionaries and more than a billion dollars in aid to help Rios Montt rule the country. While Robertson's offer never came to fruition, it enabled Rios Montt to convince the U.S. Congress that he would not seek massive sums of U.S. aid. Instead, he would rely on "private aid from U.S. evangelicals. Toward that end, Rios Montt's aide... came to the United States for a meeting with... [Reagan consigliore] Edwin Meese, Interior Secretary James Watt... and Christian Right leaders Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Loren Cunningham (head of Youth With a Mission).

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