Update from earlier entry about Christian Exodus (people moving to South Carolina to start a Christian state or whatever)

Devotional: Frank and Tammy Janoski and their children, Jonathan, 5, Joel 4, Justin, 11, and Jennifer, 12, pray in their Greer home Monday. They are part of Christian Exodus. OWEN RILEY JR. / Staff
Comment: I love the staged prayer. It’s very authentic. Innocent Jonathan knows not to fake his prayers…he’s just looking at the reporter while Daddy smiles.
Published in Greenville (SC) Times…
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
The Exodus has begun.
It began quietly, in a house with white vinyl siding and a trampoline out back, in a subdivision between Greer and Simpsonville.
That’s where Frank Janoski, his wife Tammy, and their four children have come. They left Bethlehem, Pa., to be a part of the Christian Exodus.
South Carolina may not be flowing with milk and honey, but it looks like the promised land to the leaders of this group, which hopes to relocate thousands of conservative Christian families like the Janoskis from across America to the Palmetto State.
Their aim: to tip the political scales, which they see as already weighted heavily to the right, further in that direction.
Secession “is a valid option,” said Janoski, a “state coordinator” for the organization — but he hopes it doesn’t come to that.
“If it’s going to be ugly and bloody, nobody wants that,” he said.
The group is recruiting more pioneers for this journey of faith through its Web site and plans to hold a national conference in Greenville in October, which will include information booths of local real estate agents, employers and private schools — all the nuts and bolts needed for relocation.
The political strategy is to support candidates, first on the local level — school boards and county councils — and then on the state level. The Upstate has been chosen as part of the first phase of the relocation program, with a goal of having 2,500 members in two yet-to-be-named counties by Sept. 30, 2006.
They have a long way to go. Only two other families have moved here since the Janoskis came five months ago, according to the 38-year-old self-employed electrical and computer engineer
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