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Perhaps the most startling element of SACR is one of its long-term objectives.

Per the mission statement obtained by TPM, SACR aims to have its members form the government of an “aligned future regime.”

“They would be next generation
—not founding participants, but those who joined as the project of civic renewal grows deep roots,” the document reads.

“That is, men who ‘grow up in the system.’”

Other goals include providing “preferential treatment for members, especially in business,”
and to both “coordinate allied fraternal networks”
and “defend fraternal networks … against attacks by those opposed to civic renewal, and strongly deter such attacks.”

In Yenor’s Boise chapter, SACR members attempted to craft a “#Statement on #Marriage” in which local church leaders would proclaim an “intentional effort to celebrate the benefits of family life” because the “culture is hostile to Christian marriage.”

To do that, the group would “promote marriage publicly through a pro-marriage sticker” to be spread around the Boise region.

The same group held events with speakers, including writer and policy researcher #Aaron #Renn.

At one point, emails show, Yenor pitched an Idaho news website to Claremont funders called Action Idaho, saying that SACR would take care of back-end work for the venture.

Other public remarks from members point towards the group’s activities.

After The Guardian published its initial story on the group over the summer, a small controversy erupted among evangelicals who regarded Haywood’s views as dangerous and the prospect of a certain strain of Christianity taking control of the government as troubling.

Fischer hit back in a podcast appearance, describing SACR as a “big-tent thing where men get together.”

“So the local chapters or lodges will have a meeting and maybe 15 guys get together and a speaker comes in and talks about something political, sometimes it’s a political candidate or whatever.
And then we learn and sometimes we just hang out,” he said.

“There’s no sort of great #secrecy associated with it. There’s a little degree of #confidentiality because there’s guys there who are at companies where even being associated with a group that is all men would be seen as suspicious.”