Evangelical Christian Political Operative Organization (ECPOO)

The Evangelical Christian Political Operative Organization, known as ECPOO, is a right-wing political action committee. They advocate world domination through military force, from a fundamentalist Christian perspective.

The ECPOO insignia, which portrays a dove with a missile

in its beak 

ECPOO was founded in 1999 by Vivian, a "family values" activist, and KKKaren, an expert in race relations. Their vision, as put forward in a 1999 mission statement, is an America in which "even the unborn are born again."

Support for Bush

ECPOO made headlines with its early support for the presidential candidacy of George W. Bush, whom Vivian described in 2000 as "Christ in a cowboy hat." Although the Bush administration has admitted no formal connection with ECPOO's leadership, in 2004 Karl Rove told Robert Novak that Bush and Cheney would win re-election "thanks to the Diebolds and the ECPOOs." In his newspaper column, Novak theorized that Rove may have simply sneezed.

Jesus's Jihad

Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, ECPOO released a controversial music video, "Jesus's Jihad," in which members of the group declared in song that "we won't stop until we've won the Great American Holy War." The video makes clear that in ECPOO's world view, Islam is evil, and Christianity should bomb it to death.

A still from the controversial 2001 "Jesus's Jihad" video. Pictured 

here are ECPOO members identified as Gunther, KKKaren, Vivian,

and Chuck

Save it for Later

In 2006, ECPOO announced the launch of Save it for Later, a program designed to encourage sexual abstinence in American teenagers. Vivian travelled around the country promoting Save it for Later, administering the Save it for Later Abstinence Oath to any teenager willing to repeat after her. ECPOO conceived the program for use in schools, but as of this writing no school has adopted it. Some critics have attributed its failure to the fact that the Oath itself is so sexually graphic that teenagers who take it become uncontrollably lustful.

ECPOO Records

Always looking for ways to expand the scope of its activities, ECPOO began forming side companies, beginning in 2003 with ECPOO Books. Although this experience was a calamity -- they tried to publish religious and policial texts, but realized at the last moment that they hadn't written any -- later endeavors proved marginally more fruitful. In 2006, ECPOO Records (whose sole previous achievement had been the "Jesus's Jihad" video) managed to release a CD. Entitled For the Love of God, it was a compilation of "evangelical love songs" by various artists. Vivian extensively pitched For the Love of God on her 2006 Save it for Later tour, which resulted in some modest sales. She told audiences that the music on the album was "guaranteed to keep you out of the mood." The ECPOO member known as Gunther is credited with the rise of ECPOO records.

See also

• Burning Bush: A Faith-Based Musical
• Moral Value Meal
• For the Love of God

 Photograph: Corey Moosa, Ellie Dvorkin, Amanda Sisk, Noah Diamond