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Attention Pastors
Christians & Society TO-DAY, pages 3 and 4, can bereproduced locally on a pho-tocopier for use as a supple- ment or insert with bulletinsor newsletters.
Pfizer pollutes physical, moral environments,
S.C. Johnson says values may vary
ANTI-CHRISTIAN
Not only is Pfizer one of the tice Department covers viola- sible Television (CLeaR-TV) leading sponsors of sex, violence tions of local water treatment continues to promote their and profanity on television, but standards, a local waste water boycott of Pfizer and S.C. John- also a leading polluter of the permit and the federal Clean Wa- son. The two companies were nation’s streams. The Environ- ter Act.
identified by CLeaR-TV as mental Protection Agency re- CHRISTIAN
leading sponsors of sex, violence cently forced Pfizer to pay a Baylson said the $3.1 millionand profanity on television and record $3.1 million for dumping penalty includes money Pfizer refused repeated requests by pollutants into the Delaware saved by not installing neces- CLeaR-TV to change their spon- River from 1981-87. The agree- sary pollution control equip- HOMOSEXUAL
CBS offers Norman Lear's answers to MOVEMENT
Special homosexual
nation's spiritual needs in ‘spiritual sitcom’ Television producer Norman which at press time was sched- tual malaise, and nobody’s ap- Lear, who founded the left-wing uled to debut June 2 on CBS.
MEDIA BIAS
American Way, the publica- did for a period, and still contin- American Way, says that tradi- tion of American Airlines, called ues to. But mainline churches tional religious groups have Lear’s new program a “spiritual don’t do that good a job of it.” failed to answer the spiritual sitcom.” In an interview with So, having recently been “con-needs of America. So Mr. Lear columnist Doug Nye, Mr. Lear verted” through a spiritual pil- plans to meet the needs in his said: “I look now at the ’90s, and grimage, Mr. Lear plans to use new series SUNDAY DINNER this country suffers a deep spiri- Lear’s group opposes AFA Law Center efforts to remove teaching New Age/occult religions in schools PORNOGRAPHY
Norman Lear’s liberal politi- embattled school districts a “De- cal organization, People for the fense Kit.” The Defense Kit Law Center filed suit in federal American Way (PAW), has contains anonymous testimoni- court in Sacramento, California,thrust itself into the litigation als attributed to teachers, par- saying that a number of the les-filed by the AFA Law Center ents and administrators, and sons in “Impressions” require SOCIETY & VALUES
over the New Age/occult prac- essays from the editors on the the children to participate in the tices in the controversial “Im- value of the series; and suggests religious activities of Wicca, or pressions” reading curriculum. responses to challenges by the modern witchcraft. These in-Seeking to intervene in the ac- parents. Much of the information clude activities generally iden-tion on behalf of the school disseminated by People for the tified with the New Age move-district, People For’s Michael American Way on “Impressions” ment or the occult, such as sit- ALL-MEMBERSHIP
Hudson pledged its resources to appears to have been taken di- ting in circles and chanting,“fight for (the) curriculum in rectly from the Defense Kit.
“Impressions” series itself, HBJhas prepared and provided to The Christ in church is
the Christ in commerce
By Tim Wildmon
AFA Associate Director
Dr. Donald E. Wildmon
Forgive the cliche’, but it really seems that just yesterday I was walking through President
my high school graduation ceremony.
That was 1981 and now it’s time for our Some years ago I was speaking about pornography at a meeting in Huntsville, Alabama. It was an area meeting of the leaders of an evangelical, conservative Christian denomination. It is a denomination I highly respect.
walking down the aisle getting married to After I finished, a gentleman walked up to me and said he owned a convenience store which sold porn magazines. He said he was going to have I was floored! How could this man, a leader in his local church and denomination, have ever entered the pornography business? I guess he just through a window at my firstborn child.
didn’t connect his Christian faith with his business.
That was 1987 and now that little girl is Last month I received a copy of a letter in the mail: “When I went into the hotel gift shop business two years ago.I decided my business policy would have to be separate from my personal values as a born again Christian who leads a clean life. We supply what people want to buy. I do refuse to carry pornographic magazines that are illegal and do show children in sex acts.” me, O Lord, my life’s end and the number That was the response which the owner of some motel gift shops in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, gave when a concerned individual asked the Unbelievable. This person thinks of herself as a born again Christian and nothing before you. Each man’s life is buta breath.” yet sees no conflict between that statement and the selling of pornography.
She says that as long as it is legal, she will sell it. In the practice of her that causes us to reflect on the past and business, the expression of her Christian faith is determined by the laws of the state. If the state says it is legal, she says it is compatible with her matters greatly how the days that make up How badly confused—warped is a better word—some people are in their our lives are spent. Are they spent on the understanding of Christ. Was it legal to exchange coins in the temple? Of course it was. It was even sanctioned by the “church” which reaped huge financial benefits from the practice. But far from condoning the practice, our Touching other people’s lives for Jesus Lord drove the moneychangers from the temple.
Christ should be the vocation of everyChristian. In word, deed and thought we Could it be possible that the lady had sat in church Sunday after Sunday after Sunday, listening to hundreds if not thousands of sermons, spending hundreds of hours in Sunday School, and still reach the opinion that she would have to separate her Christian faith from her business operation? Not I wonder if the connection between the two had ever been addressed from either the pulpit or Sunday School material. If not, others share the In Nevada, prostitution is legal. Therefore, following the equation that that which is legal is acceptable for the Christian, Nevada Christians couldbe owners of houses of prostitution. In some countries cocaine is legal.
Therefore, its being legal, it would be acceptable for Christians to be in the I’m afraid that, for whatever reasons, we have failed many of those who frequent our church services. They see no connection between the spiritual sociation. Published monthly and Novem-ber/December. Address: P.O. Drawer 2440, and the secular, between what they practice in the church building and what Tupelo, MS 38803. Phone 601/844-5036.
they practice in the marketplace. They fail to see that for the Christian there is no separation between the secular and sacred. There can be, James said,no “double minded” Christian.
Executive Editor: Donald E. Wildmon If Christ is our Lord, He is our Lord in church and in commerce. Or He isn’t our Lord at all. That is not to say that we are perfect. It is to say we work Editorial Assistant: Jessica Huckaby toward perfection of intent. We may do wrong but it is not our intent to do AFA is a Christian organization promoting the Biblical ethic of decency in American society with primary emphasis on TV andother media.
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MPAA official admits criteria for
the actual debate over the film’s obscen-ity, reporting that the film, “which took NC-17 films are same as X rated
top honors at a film festival sponsored byRobert Redford’s Sundance Institute, in- to the X rating assigned to its movie ‘Henry and June,’ an erotic, three-way love story about the sexual experimentation of author Daily Variety, a Hollywood entertain- Henry Miller, his wife and the female lover push for ratings reform and Valenti acqui- ings as one prisoner stalks another in an Leader that the criteria are the same.
esced,” the paper said. Thus the X rating rear-entry intercourse and one of genital fondling.” Variety concluded the film add a new rating (called A) to distinguish have already been submitted to the ratings “will be unpalatable to many mainstream between “quality” films with sexually ex- viewers.” The Post doesn’t seem to value with the payment of the necessary fee, will the public’s “right to know” when tax- “non-quality” films. Valenti said such a payers foot the bill for “tasteful” depictions what was art. “We’d be asking the ratings ABC: being Christian
board to make a distinction in quality.
We’ve never done that and we’ll never do porn films an NC-17 rating. “We are pleased disqualifies guest
(with the NC-17 rating). We have no plans last year when Universal Pictures objected Reflection on TV,
longer associated in any advertising pro- movie producers
of the anti-family, pro-drug content of Play- boy and deciding not to support their agenda researcher for the network’s bookers. Even with advertising dollars,” said Donald E.
“Those who say they give the public what as “George Bush’s religious guru,” Reis Wead by concealing that he was a “funda- Volkswagen drops
mentalist.” Asked how Wead’s religious beliefs were relevant, Reis explained that ads in ‘Playboy’
they “affect his political agenda.” AsHagelin saw it, “Evidently, if you’re a In January, Playboy magazine said that Bible-believing Christian it disqualifies from the automotive industry were so good Washington Post puffs contacted by ABC and told not to talk
porn, ignores content
office in Detroit. Now it appears that Play- boy will not need that Detroit office.
inquiries be directed to Press Representa- would no longer advertise in Playboy.
Reis’ hostility toward Hagelin, but said March 20 articles on the film Poison illus-
Reis was “a researcher and not a booker,” Playboy, says it will no longer advertise in the porn publication. “In a zealous effort tension.” Walker explained: “She’s young.
NEA chief John Frohnmayer and Poison
She doesn’t understand why she’s sud- quotes from NEA critics, neither of which Walker denied that a person’s religious William A. Gelgota, Director of Marketing discussed the controversial content of the for Volkswagen in a letter to a consumer.
“Please be assured that Volkswagen is no Family Association booklet “Pornography: ‘Time’ shows bias
International has been testing its students for 25 years and every year ACSI students phy does to our children. After looking at in book review
have tested at least one year ahead of the the report and listening to her explanation he said he was sorry that he carried those 523,302 students in 2,778 schools and are wacky, conspiratorial ideas, but get a load of this. “Beauty is a conspiracy of pain front of her, threw rack after rack of Pent- forced upon women,” began Time reporter house and Playboy magazines in the The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf. “In the are entrapped by a cult that is the equiva- lent of the iron maiden, a medieval torture four times less likely to drop out than their Time not only gave a whole page to the book, but failed to include one sentence ofcriticism. Mitchell explained: “The beauty Tax supported PBS
Lotteries hurt poor
myth of Wolf’s title is reinforced, she argues, by a global industry worth billions to begin airing pro-
homosexual program
Heartland Institute. Lotteries, operating in 33 states, take in $16 billion a year and on cosmetics each year could finance 2,000 women’s health clinics or pay for three tional station supported with tax dollars, blacks and Hispanics, the private research Perhaps Time’s $2.50 cover price could group said. States use some of the lottery PBS stations receive millions of tax dol- FCC fines two radio
complain about your tax dollars being used stations for indecency
to promote the homosexual lifestyle, writeyour Congressman and Senators.
United Methodist
of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515.
school grants
homosexuals charter
gressman and Senators is 202-224-3121.
student senate has granted a charter to the Newspaper drops ads
Gay and Lesbian Student Organization.
for 900 sex numbers
eligible next year for university funding.
didn’t like the idea of 900 numbers (which television station has violated the law with often are sex talk lines) being advertised in to the FCC. Be sure to state the call letters Which is correct–
of the station, the time of the program, and Hickman, publisher of the Herald, stating CBS or U.S. census?
seriously and had decided to stop the ads.
Christian schools
People act, porn
doing better job
goes to the dumpster
Washington Post gave a far different fig- plained to the new owner of the Fina Mart in a Christian environment, teaching ethics Christians and Society TODAY is published by AmericanFamily Association, P.O. Drawer 2440, Tupelo, MS 38803, to and social values in addition to the three be reproduced for use as a supplemental insert for church newsletters and bulletins and for use by other concernedorganizations.
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Prime-time attacks Christianity, pushes illicit sex, homosexuality
absolved of guilt, but not before the movie fully committed to promotion of teen sex, homosexuality and other illicit sex, and to thanking his congregation from the pulpit portraying the family in a negative light.
for their good wishes on his “anniversary of need your money! Biblelands is only half
way there. With your help, it could be the bed with 21-year-old Darcy Warren, a mem- most important attraction since the cruci- that he tell his wife about their affair within the next two days, or she herself will tell the hero’s passions for racing and women mons onstage for healing. In one scene he with bedroom eyes. It boasts that he is a proclaims, with dramatic flair, “Praise the “he-- raiser” and warns, “Mamas, lock Darcy’s last months of life and her mur- der parallel that of Michelle Barlow, whose murder two years earlier was still unsolved.
A. Miles, Philip Morris, Incorporated,
beauty he lusts after, doesn’t drink and After Rowe’s car is traced to the motel which Darcy frequented on her lunch hour, that’s like having a car and not driving it, turns out to be the murderer. She confesses Chrm. S. Daniel Abraham, Thompson
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teaches that it is desirable to lie if it achieves one’s selfish purpose. The story a race car he’d bought, retorts, “This ain’t products, Kraft food products, Oscar Mayer a Bible class—everybody cheats a little!” The movie also boasts lots of profanity.
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siana to settle his late aunt’s estate.
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ing to Beverly Hills. Moral values couldn’t Company, One Kellogg Square PO Box
endure long, of course. The May 2 episode, account of a Confederate soldier’s encoun- Waffles, Kellogg’s cereals, Mrs. Smith’s the high school daughter, in her first sexual ABC’s April 21 movie. Written by Dennis Brown and produced by Dorothea G. Petrie, it was a refreshing contrast to the normal held. After sex, Brenda could hardly wait was. It is clearly a time for celebration Atlanta family learned of his injury, Blair’s don). No moral question was raised at all, decision to have a baby. The “funny” lines climactic scene features President Lincoln coming to the prison hospital and visiting bank jokes, illicit sex, promiscuity, sexual dysfunction, etc. After she rules out the recognize Mr. Lincoln.) Carter has read the Calloway, PepsiCo, Anderson Hill Road,
and is visibly touched, wishing aloud that times, to father the child. Eventually, she decides not to have a baby.
Hut restaurants, Ruffles potato chips.
married man she’s just met. She lies in Chrm. Michael A. Miles, Philip
order to avoid jury duty—until she spots Morris, Incorporated, 120 Park Avenue,
support was: Chrm. Edwin L. Artzt, Procter
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founded when Leon, their boss at the diner, In addition, illicit sex is the subject of an Leon’s friend Jerry come to pick him up. It is clear that he is Leon’s lover. Roseanne’s sewer for new episodes of the NBC series.
The April 4 episode featured the law firm terms that had to be bleeped for television.
all—not even of surprise that her boss is vindictive senior partner. The two groups of most of the show. Just as with Anthony’s racier.” Spring fever has everyone in town then initiate litigation against each other.
lying, there is no suggestion that illicit sex feeling sexually repressed, so sex is the teach a law seminar; one of them pretends Advertisers included: Chrm. Edwin L.
“prayer” of thanks (on the air) to Gaea, the to be a student in a moot court designed to Artzt, Procter & Gamble, P.O. Box 599,
test the class. Throughout, the attorneys, Cincinnati, OH 45201, TOLL FREE: 1-
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included an ex-lover discussing his satis- real, Nut & Honey cereal, Nutri-Grain taking athlete who shot himself to death; with a decidedly different slant—illicit sex, on a father and his teenage son and their straight one—asks C. J. for a date.
are Cheryl Bloch and Matthew Nodella.
April 8—Dr. Joel Fleischman (practic-
nally trying to get Vinnie, about 20, into however, think’s Abby is not ready yet.
school scholarships) gets a “Dear John” (Charlie) talking about how long it’s been cussing the same thing with a woman he’s with a woman barely out of her teens. Joel discusses with Maggie, his landlord, that Chrm. Joseph V. Vittoria, Avis, Inc., 900
sex with Elaine had never been “wild” line of “plot”—adultery jokes, safe sex April 15—When disc jockey Chris loses
his voice, he is told to have sex with the Chrm. Michael A. Miles, Philip
Morris, Incorporated, 120 Park Avenue,
get his voice back. He sets out to seduce her products, Kraft food products, Post cereals, April 22—Hollings and his “teen-
Williams, Warner-Lambert Company,
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breath mints, Dentyne chewing gum,
town’s discussion of Hollings’ upcoming elaborate lies in order to impress a blind April 29—Maggie and Joel begin hav-
ing dreams about each other. Maurice, single and a former astronaut, continues his affair scene. Chris the d.j. (who’s ordained by a sizes the fact that Cicely’s founders—two lesbians—“had a good thing and were lucky Maurice’s affair and the promiscuity of didn’t you use protection!?” (The line is followed, irrationally enough, by a laugh May 6—Maggie’s and Joel’s dream se-
“Joey,” explains Dad, “nothing is one picks up his lingerie catalog at the post office, the postmistress also gives him a dreaming he is at Mt. Sinai with Moses.
The father’s sex life remains the focus Playboy magazine and one that is “a little The riotous living and idol-worship of the TOLL FREE: 1-800-331-4331, Lexus
“Homer the Thief’s” conversation with “Zoar the Adulterer,” who implies that hehas committed adultery with Homer’s and a recurring “Christian” caricature in the series, comes across as self-righteous him get free cable TV dishonestly. Homer, man, a member of a medical staff, leering daughter Lisa’s campaign against cheat- lustfully at other men and effecting man- sexual character) goes for an AIDS test and capitalizes on the situation and sells tick- apparently tests positive for the AIDS vi- scribing, with relish, for hospital personnel ets to his friends to watch porn movies on rus. The story rightfully appeals to viewers’ the details of a sexual attack. The Samuel cable. Bart also uses profanity, once re- sympathy for the suffering man. Ironically, sponding to his father with, “He— yes!” previous episodes or in this one—with the peating the word “he—” again and again.
fact that Peter contracted AIDS because he R. Albers, Dr Pepper/7-Up, Inc., Post
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Chrm. Richard L. Gelb, Bristol-Myers
Nabisco, 9 West 57th St., 48th Floor,
Squibb Company, 345 Park Avenue,
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toothpaste, Signal mouthwash, Snuggle liq- sessed with losing their virginity before their senior year ends in the NBC April 22 series. The episode, written by Katherine Teen sex is the only subject in this Michael
fanity in a tawdry tale of politician and Zinberg story produced by Randall Zisk.
illicit sex jokes, promiscuity jokes, and prostitute. It was written by David Braff letes it’s natural to “go all the way” while of Nina, a hooker he has been seeing. He is with Nina and they are expecting her friend Callie to join them for a menage-a-trois.
tells teenage daughter Kelly to “take the scene just before she discovers Nina’s body in bed with Pearl. Thinking they’re both wants to have sex with someone she’s not dead, she goes to the police, but when they Kelly’s reputation for promiscuity.
tion—if not overtly about illicit sex—is series hero Jack Cole. Callie enlists his nonetheless permeated with the theme.
seductively for them. Such is the typical support to find the truth. Within days of their meeting, Cole and Callie begin having A. Miles, Philip Morris, Incorporated,
Itagaki, American Isuzu Motors, Ltd.,
2300 Pellishier Place, Whittier, CA 90601, Advertisers included: Chrm. Edwin L.
TOLL FREE: 1-800-326-9195, Isuzu
Artzt, Procter & Gamble, P.O. Box 599,
Cincinnati, OH 45201, TOLL FREE: 1-
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Chrm. August A. Busch III, Anheuser-
800-543-7276, Crest toothpaste, Crisco oil
buck and Co., Sears Tower, Chicago, IL
Busch Companies, One Busch Place, St.
& shortening, Folger’s coffee, Max Factor Louis, MO 63118, TOLL FREE: 1-800-
credit card, Sears stores & products, 325-1488, Break Cake snack cakes,
Pres. Y. Togo, Toyota Motor Sales,
Post Office Box 2991, Torrance, CA 90509, Church, school ask members to join Kmart boycott
Pornography (WRAP). WRAP has provento be a very successful way of bringing and the parents of children attending the ribbon is used as a symbol of purity.
iaries because of Kmart’s refusal to stop Life Service Company in Royal Oak, Michi- through rape, incest and child molestation.
of the boycott and asked to participate.
stores, is one of the largest retailers of magazines such as Penthouse and Playboy Call Kmart and let them know
you are joining the boycott. The
government officials and pastors involved, service customer number is 1-800-
call their local Kmart store and their subsid- 63-Kmart or 1-800-635-6278. Be
polite. You will probably be told
that Kmart stores do not sell por-
the same. Always be polite when calling.
nography. That is true. But
Waldenbooks, owned by Kmart,
sell pornography in their stores. That is is one of the leading retailers of
CBS claims millions
pornography in America. Kmart
of kids almost starving
can order Waldenbooks to get out
the authority to order Waldenbooks to get of the pornography business at
out of the porn business at any time.
any time.
leased preliminary findings of its study on “We are against all types of pornographic materials—whether that be child porn or lets. Several liked it so much they further the so-called soft porn like Playboy or exaggerated its already questionable con- hard core like that represented in anony- if respondents answered “yes” to five of eight questions about the previous year.
Some questions didn’t necessarily indi- Mars pulls ad after protest
cate hunger. “Do your children ever eat Florida and Georgia; and C&W One Stop, with 16 stores in San Angelo, Texas, have there is not enough money for food?” and more than 50 girls’ schools protested that all gotten out of the pornography business.
“Do you ever rely on a limited number of the commercial put girls’ schools in a bad light. The actions ranged from boycotts of cause “I think it enhances our image in the community. We’re trying to present a more children: two asked about the eating habits not to offend parents of our younger cus- tomers, I made the decision to do away with talking to her child says, “Honey, your Playboy and Penthouse. The sales (of those Rather began the broadcast: “A startling dad and I think you should attend an all- girls school.” Right after that, a number of dollars, but I think we can survive without of eight American children is going hungry Customers in areas served by these stores should express appreciation and give them not claim their “hungry” children were
hungry every night—just at least once a Porn Awareness Week set
More chains pull
Others also inflated FRAC’s claims.
Newsweek erred in its April 1 issue: “Child- porno magazines
children under 12 years old—5.5 million planning for this event in local churches ton Globe’s Stephen Kurkjian identically Sources cited for News of Interest items asserted: “The survey, the first nation- indicate source of basic information only. wide study of the level of childhood hunger “socialist perspective” on health care for U. S. Customs Service to drop enforcement
the Democratic Socialists of America.
of child pornography laws as priority
Poll: faith in God matters most
in recent months by the government’s own of Americans’ lives, according to a new poll by Princeton Research. Forty percent of respondents said they valued their rela- other category, as one of its five priority only 2% said a job that pays well was the Bush stated that fighting child pornogra- most important thing in their lives.
phy and obscenity was a priority with his reinstate child pornography to a priority “That’s an astounding set of figures, it level concern just as it was before Carol Hallett became the Commissioner,” he said University of California, Santa Barbara.
tion and exportation of child pornography cannot be sloughed off and treated as just than it really is,” said William McKinney, Customs Service reinstate the enforcement molestation and exploitation of our chil- of child pornography laws as a top priority.
in a 1990 Associated Press poll conducted heart and soul of America itself. Given the gion was very important in their lives, and pornographic and sacrilegious ‘art’ funded 86% said it was either very important orfairly important.
Holiday Inns drop movie ratings from listing
so astounding is the fact that religion has Holiday Inns, the leading retailer of in- Holiday Inns included Stocks and Blondes, Emmanuelle in the Orient, The Erotic Ad- egated to a back-page section once a week ventures of Zorro, Ready, Willing and Able, in most newspapers, and attacked by tele- on the card describing their in-room mov- The Marilyn Diaries starring Marilyn vision programs and movies,” said Donald Chambers, Curious Female, Melody in Love and others. Each of the movies has a short control of the media, but it does not have description which we elected not to use in Day Baptists, Southern Baptist Convention, Dentists for Life organize
local conferences of the United Methodist passed resolutions endorsing the boycott.
p.m. The service is called Nightlife mov- individuals and groups to boycott Holiday In writing Holiday Inns, be sure to ask if vidual movies, the card simply says “All the same as the X-rating used to be.
Nightlife features are rated by the Motion Picture Association of America” without concerned can also write to complain: Chrm.
President; 7866 Spring Avenue; ElkinsPark, PA 19117.
Former moderators reject
ger in America.” This “comprehensive” million—goes hungry each day.” Kurkjian study by local activists included only ten findings of Presbyterian
sexuality panel
“It’s a joke,” said Heritage Foundation leaders have written an open letter criti- found that low-income kids receive roughly porter who wrote the story run by most of the country’s newspapers, also puffed the children. But none of the major media sto- ries included any critics, or labeled FRAC ture as a “witness without parallel,” the as liberal, even though the study’s technical former moderators said, is a “fatal flaw” adviser, Dr. Victor Sidel, recently wrote a moorings in the Bible and the confessions Pornography involved
in molester’s crime
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By Nancy Myers
NRLC Communications Director
agenda more important than truth
National Right to Life News
March 26, 1991
This is not a story about abortion. This is a story about how grief of her parents and Becky’s memory are being exploited by producers at the popular television program 60 MINUTES the Feminist Majority Fund to advance their arguments against ignored a substantial controversy, distorted facts, and misrepresented interviews in order to present a story which The cruel irony of the Feminist Majority Fund’s campaign is differed little from their original “concept.” that if Becky had had an abortion and suffered complications, Last October, 60 MINUTES contacted me to discuss Becky then she would have died precisely because her parents did not Bell, a young Indiana girl who tragically died in 1988. Abortion know, and therefore did not seek proper medical care. And pro- advocates, primarily the Fund for the Feminist Majority, claim abortion groups are using the Bells’ tragedy to ensure that tens
that because Becky was afraid to tell her parents she was of thousands of teens and parents are placed in similar situations.
pregnant, and Indiana law requires one parent’s permission The tragic consequences of the absence of parental involvement before a minor can undergo an abortion, she sought and died from laws are well known, and continue to come to light.
an illegal abortion. Becky’s parents, Bill and Karen Bell, travel I specifically pointed out, on the phone and in letters, that and tell that story in the Fund’s visible campaign to defeat Becky Bell’s death from an illegal abortion could not responsibly parental notice and consent legislation.
be reported as fact since there was so much controversy However, the circumstances surrounding Becky Bell’s death surrounding the case. I suggested strongly that before Pearson go forward with the story, she remove identifying names from the • The autopsy report is inconclusive at best; several doctors autopsy report and ask several, or even one, pathologist to have said that there is negative evidence of an induced abortion.
determine, as best they could, the cause of death. Pearson assured • An Indiana Planned Parenthood official told a Cleveland me that she was very interested in that aspect of the story, and Plain Dealer reporter, “I have some reservations about hyping this whole thing when it’s so mixed about what actually went on.” In the meantime, in ongoing efforts to assist our state and local • According to news reports, at least one of Becky’s friends groups (who had been inundated with press calls about the Becky Bell case), another National Right to Life staffer had obtained • The pathologist who signed Becky’s autopsy report had letters from three doctors who had seen the autopsy report. All played a minor role in the famous “Infant Doe” infanticide case three had separately concluded that there is no solid evidence of Over the past year or so, several newspaper reporters have I have never before witnessed a
written fairly straightforward accounts of the controversy.
case in which journalists who
Columnists in Indiana and elsewhere have written editorials.
Initially, I was interested in the proposal from 60 MINUTES.
had all the information available
The program has an inordinate influence because it remains sopopular, although it has a reputation among those who know the deliberately ignored the facts
media well as more entertainment than news. Still, there were too to present a story they
many unanswered questions about Becky’s death and the autopsyto be ignored.
wanted to air.
The 60 MINUTES producers I worked with were thorough; they spent several months gathering information and asking meto gather information on the controversy. However, the final an induced abortion, and no evidence that the pneumonia which aired version differed little from the Feminist Majority Fund’s killed Becky was a result of an abortion infection, since there was story, despite substantial evidence that disproves, and certainly no evidence of infection, or even instrumentation trauma, in her complicates, their version of the events.
Like most people who work with the media, I have dealt with Over the next several weeks, I spoke with Pearson several many, many examples of sloppy journalism, as well as with times and faxed and sent her volumes of information on parental reporters who go the extra mile to report fairly. I have worked involvement laws and the Bell case. I asked each time if she had with journalists who are biased and broadcast producers who go gone independently to a doctor with the autopsy report, and each “quote-shopping.” Quite frankly, I thought I couldn’t be shocked time she was noncommittal or said she was “taking care of it.” That’s when I began to have my first nagging doubts.
60 MINUTES shocked me. I have never before witnessed a The on-camera interview with NRLC President John Willke, case in which journalists who had all the information available M.D., was held in a Washington hotel. Before the interview, Dr.
deliberately ignored the facts to present a story they wanted to air.
Willke and I sat in the lobby with senior producer Richard Bonin I first dealt with Elizabeth Pearson, a 60 MINUTES assistant who went over some of the points he wanted Dr. Willke to stress.
producer, who said she was working on a story on Becky Bell, This is what most people know as “quote-shopping:” a not- who, Pearson said, had died of an illegal abortion. I explained the uncommon but distasteful tactic reporters use to get people to say controversy surrounding the case and sent her pertinent a certain quote to fit a story line. In the hotel room, we met Morley Safer (the 60 MINUTES correspondent who would be questioning Throughout our numerous conversations, I repeated my main Dr. Willke), Elizabeth Pearson, and two camera operators.
concern with the case; Becky’s death was a tragedy, but Soon after the interview with Safer began, it became clear that overwhelming evidence exists that she did not die of an abortion.
the interview was a transparent attempt to get Dr. Willke to In fact, most evidence points to the fact that the understandable malign the Bell family. Safer also questioned the credibility of anti-abortion information provided to 60 MINUTES, saying several times, “You’re playing fast and loose with the facts.” It was not mentioned that the Fund pays a salary to Becky’s For example, Safer attacked Dr. Willke’s use of Dr. John father. The considerable controversy surrounding the case, which Curry, former head of the tissue bank at Bethesda Naval Hospital.
has been detailed by numerous major secular newspapers and in Curry had said the pneumonia germ that killed Becky is “unlikely NRL News, was not even mentioned, except in the context of to originate from a contaminated abortion procedure.” Safer said on-camera to Dr. Willke: “[Dr. Curry] told us he’s never seen the While Dr. Willke was clearly identified as a pro-life autopsy, that he’s not qualified to make a judgment.” spokesperson throughout the story, Dr. John Pless, the pathologist Talk about “playing fast and loose with the facts”! In fact, who signed the autopsy report, was presented as an objective while Dr. Curry had not physically seen with his eyes the autopsy scientist. No mention was made of Dr. Pless’ role in the 1982 report, the entire report had been read to him over the phone by [Briefly, Dr. Pless performed the autopsy on “Infant Doe,” a Some time after Thomas quoted Dr. Curry in a column last Down’s Syndrome baby boy born in 1982 in Bloomington, summer, a young man called Dr. Curry. The young man did not Indiana. The boy died six days after birth after being denied food, identify himself as a 60 MINUTES reporter or a media water, and surgical aid to correct a malformed esophagus, and representative at all, but told Dr. Curry he was “investigating” the after his parents had obtained a court order barring doctors from feeding or treating him. Dr. Pless told reporters that the exact The young man asked specifically if Dr. Curry had physically
seen the autopsy report. Dr. Curry responded, “No, the entire
What is truly alarming in the
autopsy report was read to me over the phone.” conduct of 60 MINUTES
Dr. Curry then spent several minutes explaining his concerns with the autopsy report and his strong conviction that there was producers is their concerted
no evidence of induced abortion. The young man asked him if hewas an expert in abortion procedure, and Dr. Curry responded effort to present a clean, simple
that he was not, but it was apparent from the autopsy report that story, even in the face of
there was no infection anywhere near the reproductive organs.
So, Safer’s statement, “He told us he’s never seen the autopsy
overwhelming evidence
report, that he’s not qualified to make a judgment,” gave the to the contrary.
untrue impression that Dr. Curry was unfamiliar with the case.
I leaned over to Elizabeth Pearson at one point during the interview and said, “You didn’t take the autopsy report to a cause of Infant Doe’s death was “natural causes,” and was doctor independently, did you?” She glared at me and said, attacked for misrepresenting the true cause—dehydration and Several days later, Elizabeth Pearson called me. She said, Throughout the story, anti-abortion people were not only “You seemed pretty angry at the interview. I just wanted to let identified, but openly attacked. At one point, Morley Safer you know that we were tough on the other side, too.” ridiculed Dr. Willke for citing Dr. Bernard Nathanson because, “That’s not the point,” I told her. “You didn’t take the autopsy Safer smiled and said: “He’s a known right-to-lifer. Don’t you see how his diagnosis might be a little suspect?” She told me not to tell her how to do her job. We argued for My deep concern with the course of events in working with several minutes about the central question of the case: that if these “journalists” is not just frustration with how the Pro-Life Becky Bell did not have an illegal abortion, or an induced Movement is portrayed. Unsympathetic stereotyping is nothing abortion, she could not have died from one. She finally said that new to pro-lifers. What is truly alarming in the conduct of 60 she had read parts of the autopsy report to a doctor she knew over MINUTES producers is their concerted effort to present a clean, the phone. The doctor told Pearson that Becky Bell could have simple story, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the had either an induced abortion or spontaneous abortion (miscarriage), but which type of abortion was not clear from the Granted, the real Becky Bell story is not an easy one to tell; the unanswered questions and twists and turns complicate the story 60 MINUTES producers and
tremendously. But the producers of 60 MINUTES knew allfacets of the story. They asked me many times to gather information correspondents consider
on the case as they found new evidence, and I’m sure they didtheir own research on the case.
themselves above the need for
Before the program aired, it was absolutely inconceivable to objectivity and responsibility to
me that at least part of this truth would not make it into the story.
And yet I was shocked.
report the truth.
Ultimately, I learned from my experience what most people do not know: 60 MINUTES producers and correspondents, autopsy report. She assured me that this fact would be part of the lulled by years of good reviews and good ratings, consider themselves above the constraints of traditional journalism. These Several weeks later, Richard Bonin called to ask me about constraints include the need for objectivity and responsibility to getting footage of a pro-life rally on parental involvement laws.
He said, “I know I’m not your favorite person right now, but I can Instead, the producers come up with (or are sold by public guarantee that the other side is not going to be happy with what relations professionals) a “story.” They script the story and get we air.” In so many words, I told him I’d believe it when I saw people to say the lines 60 MINUTES have written for them. They do not include anything that does not fit their “story” concept. To Several weeks ago, 60 MINUTES aired the segment titled, 60 MINUTES, truth, messy and complicated as it comes, finishes “Becky’s Story.” It was just as bad as expected. The Bells’ story was told uncritically, and there were virtually no “tough questions” I’m left wondering why 60 MINUTES is considered a news asked of the Bells, none related to the many unanswered questions Writer shares how Kmart type porn helped ruin his life
Editor’s note: The following unsolicited letter came from an it always comes back to haunt me and to possess me, and control individual in Australia. The letter shows how porn magazines me. I’m never free of it, and its tentacles reach out to me from like Penthouse, which Kmart sells in their Waldenbooks stores, wherever I am, and drag me back into the sin and darkness from can have a lifelong negative effect on young children. Kmart is well aware that their pornography causes such harm, but continue I am still getting porno catalogues from movie companies that to sell it because of the money they make. sell porno movies, and I am endeavoring to tear them up and noteven look at the filth that they are peddling. This is a huge effort Dear Sir, It is with much embarrassment and a great deal of shame that I write this letter to you. I am a 25-year-old Christian This time I want to get help, and if that means baring all, then male currently involved in a relationship with a Christian girl and that is what I will do. I want to be a father, a loving husband and it is for this reason that I am writing you this letter.
someone that can love and make love to his wife with a true heart I have just finished reading your book The Case Against and a love for her and not for any of the filth that I have indulged Pornography. I’ve had it for several years and yet I have never been able to finish it. It is now 12:30 a.m. and I am writing this As I write this the shame and the filth is welling up inside of letter as I am powerless in my battle with pornography and with me, 15 years to be in this sin, it seems impossible but it is not, and it masturbation, and I desperately want release and renewal in my I am a man, a Christian man that has gone badly wrong and as My battle with pornography started when I was about 10 years a result my mind and my body is not what it should be. It is old and I found some Penthouse magazines under my brother's decayed and dying, it is badly in need of light and renewing, I am lounge. Ever since then I have gone from bad to worse, from in need to a total overhaul, starting with my mind and then my looking at soft porn magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse to hard core pornographic magazines, to watching R rated movies I have defiled my own body with my own hands, I have to hard core pornographic movies and then to strip clubs and sex masturbated over countless videos and magazines, each time hating myself and the lust trap that I have walked into. Each time I have never since my involvement with pornography and that little bit more dead inside and a little more accustomed to the masturbation, had any real release from its evil grasp since I was filth and perversion that I see portrayed in the magazines and 10. I have steadily been getting more involved and becoming more and more dependent on this type of material.
I no longer feel like a man, I feel like someone who is only half a man. My girlfriend is lovely, she is attractive and she needs The reason for my writing is so that I may get some help, someone who is a complete person. She loves me and I am trying possibly from those that you have treated, maybe from your to love her, but until I get rid of this sin once and for all, I am no intercession for me and those like me. It is very hard for me to write this, baring my soul and my dignity, but I am at a position I am a desperate man, I am someone who has tried everything, of no return and I desperately need help.
from burning pornography, praying and fasting, trying to exercise I became a Christian at 15 . Even my Christian life and more, taking cold showers, and trying to avoid it wherever rebirth has not stopped me from this sin and perversion. I know possible. Nothing works, and I fall deeper and deeper into sin and this is what it is, but I seem to be powerless to stop it taking over I am involved in counseling sessions with my Pastor. However, I don’t think he sees the desperation and the need that I have. I My girlfriend is very attractive and very affectionate, we both have tried to tell him how I feel, but it just doesn’t come out right.
want to wait for sex, but at this point in time, it is not even an I really am trying to do something about this. I want this sin out option for me. I don’t function the way that I should.
of my life and I want to send it and its demons back to Hell where As I said, I don’t want to engage in premarital sex, but. I am tired of being frustrated and confused.
I work in King Cross, the busiest red light area in Australia I have tried explaining what has happened to me, and why I am (and, I’ve been told, in the world). Here not only are crime and like I am, and she is very loving and kind, but clearly, she is hurt violence rampant but so is the sex and pornography industry. I and confused by my inability to relax and enjoy her affections might also add, that my work place really doesn’t have an effect on me. I never involve myself in its vices, but I am still trapped by pornography and masturbation, and I am no longer a child. I Pornography in all its various disguises has ruined my life, don’t want to continue life like this.
taken my innocence, and putrefied my thought life. I want to be I have taken something beautiful and made it putrid. I want to free from it all from when I was 10 until now. If there was any way be released from this situation and I am prepared to work at it, if that I could unblock my mind and let it all drain out, and take with I have to. I wish to be able to return and enjoy my God-given it all the preconceived thoughts, actions and turn ons I would do sexuality and to just relax in the knowledge that my past is gone it. Sadly I don’t think that it is possible.
and I am moving on to becoming what God really wants me to be.
I know that I am responsible for my actions, and it is through I am in my 3rd year of my Criminal Justice Degree, I am a my own lust and my sin that this has happened to me and my life.
decorated Policeman, and I am involved with a beautiful girl, but I also know that my relationship with God has gone down and is beneath all this lies a side very few people know. It is to my shame continuing to do so, because I don’t seem to get any real victory and my disgust that I reveal this side to you in desperation and in the hope that you will be able to show me the way that I may be I might go for a week, a month, sometimes several months, but Morality governs ‘quality of life’
By Charley Reese
The Orlando Sentinel
The trouble with many believers in free enterprise and in socialism is that they mistake method for morality.
You find, of course, both socialist and free enterprise countries There’s nothing moral nor immoral about free enterprise or in which people are treated much more humanely and with socialism. Like mathematics, both are amoral. Both are systems compassion. Sweden is an example of a benign socialist state and for the production and distribution of goods, nothing more and the good old U.S. of A. is an example of a benign capitalist state.
But, and here’s meat of the nut, the compassionate treatment Prostitution, illegal gambling, pornography, murder for hire, of human beings does not derive from either economic system.
and the drug trade are all forms of free enterprise. A coal mine It comes as a result of the moral codes of the people who are in worked by children is free enterprise. A sweatshop in a city loft the systems. Workers compensation insurance, Social Security, is free enterprise. Leaving an injured worker to die on the streets and unemployment insurance are not dictated by the free enterprise is free enterprise. Slave trading is free enterprise.
system. The system would consider all of those as non-productive Free enterprise means nothing more than private ownership of the capital, the means of production, and control of distribution.
Nor is it socialism which executes millions in China and It was free enterprise for the only railroad into a farm area to provides good education and childcare in Sweden. Rather it is the charge the farmers ruinous rates to carry their produce. It’s free moral codes of the respective people in control of those societies.
enterprise when the more heavily capitalized businessman The dilemma of modern man is this. In the West, the hard bankrupts his competitors by selling below costs. Loansharking edges of both capitalism and socialism were softened by Christian morality. Europe, the mother of both North and South American Socialism, on the other hand, is nothing more than a form of civilizations, was once known as Christendom. It is Christianity slavery. The state owns everything so those who control the state in our case and other religions in other civilizations, not economic own everything and the rest, totally at the mercy of the state for ideologies nor reason, which taught compassion for human Stalinism and Nazism are forms of socialism. Denying housing But as modern man lost his faith, he also lost his moral and medical care in order to produce weaponry can be socialism.
bearings, though some made the attempt to construct a non- Denying people a job and home and then packing them off to religious ethics system. It’s not that any of us can’t sit down with prison for being vagrants is a form of socialism found in most a paper and pencil and draw up a code of secular ethics. It’s just hard to get great masses of people to learn of them, much less The naive often fail to see that the great lever communist oligarchs have is not so much the secret police, the gulag and the As the modern history of communism, nazism and fascism firing squad; those tools of control are used more or less show, officially secular ideologies turn out to be especially judiciously. The real control mechanism is socialism itself— vicious and murderous. At any rate, we are, to generalize greatly, denying people private property rights. Without them, no one can a people with no faith floundering around trying to find a find work without permission of the state. No one can find a place to live without the permission of the state. No one can buy food It’s a moral code, not an economic system, that we most without permission of the state. That’s one heck of an incentive Hustler found obscene
absolute that it is untenable to argue against in Oklahoma
and was placed on probation for five years.
“There are many other things more prob- lematic for patients that they don’t know issue obscene because of written material that instructed readers how to gouge out a person’s eye, then sexually torture him.
Liberties Union opposed the ruling, saying it could “mean a loss of privacy and jobs.” year-old boy’s genitals were cut, and one Leftwing groups help AFA efforts
Judge says doctors
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tacting sponsors,” Wildmon said. “Without they were responding to a letter from AFA tisers not to help sponsor the movie.
“The ultimate risk to the patient is so Anti-Christian bigotry
By Don Feder
Creators Syndicate, Inc.
accepted by media, law
When a romantic mood was on them, ’60s activists spoke of Justice Department investigation. Rep. Edwards, whose “the student as nigger.” Here the racial epithet was employed as subcommittee has oversight of the commission, threatened to cut a generic term to signify any outcast minority subject to funding in retaliation for its involvement.
Despite hundreds of complaints—notwithstanding hospital In reference to collegiate brats, the concept was ludicrous.
records, eye-witness accounts and videotapes—no charges were Never were obnoxious malcontents more pampered, given power brought against any police officer in connection with these out of all proportion to their merits.
sickening abuses. Says Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry: Christians are the only group in our society who can be stomped, slandered and otherwise victimized with complete No one in Washington has
impunity. The Los Angeles police brutality scandal is a case in expressed interest in
point, providing yet another instance of the double standard of Demonstrators had arms and
investigating the February
ankles broken. Nunchukas used on
burnings of 11 churches in
a pregnant woman caused her to
central Florida that authorities
miscarry. Rescuers were kicked,
are calling arson.
punched in the face, dragged face
“The answer is simple: We are pro-life Christians.” down through horse manure. No
Can there be another explanation? Recall the flurry of congressional hearings on the bombings of abortion clinics a few charges were brought against
years back. If the abortionists stub their toes, Congress bleeds.
any police officer.
No one in Washington has expressed interest in investigating the February burnings of 11 churches in central Florida thatauthorities are calling arson, or the suspicious fire last week at a justice for favored vs. despised minorities.
Boulder, Colorado, church, which was picketed by homosexuals The vicious beating of one black man has prompted an after the dismissal of its lesbian choir director.
outpouring of concern. The amateur tape of the incident played Such hatred does not exist in a vacuum. Fundamentalists, endlessly on network television; more viewers have seen it than evangelicals and Catholics are the entertainment media’s favorite punching bags, regularly pounded on prime-time television as After meeting with the Black Congressional Caucus, and bigots, hypocrites, lechers, embezzlers and para-military nuts.
ascertaining the altitude they wished him to leap from, Attorney Recently, a group of over 800 Christian leaders, including General Thornburgh last week announced a Justice Department bishops and other officials of the Catholic, Episcopal and Lutheran review of every police brutality complaint over the past six years.
churches, signed a statement calling on Hollywood to end anti- The General Accounting Office will conduct its own inquiry, and Rep. Don Edwards (D-CA) will begin hearings of his House A January episode of NBC’s LAW AND ORDER had pro- Judiciary subcommittee this week. L.A. Police Chief Daryl life Catholics blowing up a clinic to kill one of their number who Gates is keeping an anxious eye on the help-wanted pages.
was seeking an abortion. Don’t hold your breath waiting for an Contrast this to the short shrift given complaints against the same police department by members of Operation Rescue. I’ve Fundamentalists, evangelicals and
seen a videotape of the 1989 Los Angeles rescue, where peacefulprotesters were lifted off the ground by fingers stuck in their Catholics are the entertainment
nostrils. I saw pressure applied to the mastoid nerve and continued media’s favorite punching bags,
after the demonstrator came to his feet. I saw a cop applyingpressure points on the neck of his victim, while another sat on his regularly pounded on prime-time
Demonstrators had arms and ankles broken. Nunchukas used television as bigots, hypocrites,
on a pregnant woman caused her to miscarry. Rescuers were lechers, embezzlers and para-
kicked, punched in the face, dragged face down through horsemanure. These weren’t ex-felons who allegedly were involved in military nuts.
high-speed auto chases with the police. They weren’t illegallyintoxicated. The “perpetrators” included grandmothers, teen-age action show about militant atheists torching churches. You’ll die girls, priests and other depraved desperados.
These human rights violations were repeated in Pittsburgh, Can you imagine Ted Turner calling Buddhism “a religion for Atlanta and Hartford. New York’s Cardinal John O’Connor was losers,” or Hollywood making a movie like The Handmaiden’s outraged. Hosea Williams, a veteran of the Selma civil rights Tale, wherein an America ruled by blacks and Hispanics is march (with scars to prove it), added his eloquent voice to the Does a nightstick breaking the bones of a pro-life protester Still, then-chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission make a sound? Apparently not, if no one in the Justice Department William B. Allen says he “had to move mountains” to get a NEA gives homosexual film festival $12,000 tax grant
The National Endowment for the Arts, continuing the practice Films shown at the festival in previous years included “Looking of snubbing its nose at tax payers, has given a $12,000 grant of for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay video PORN,” tax dollars to support the 1991 San Francisco International “Tongues Untied,” and “Blow Job.” Frohnmayer will probably defend the grant to the homosexual “The decision by Mr. Frohnmayer to support the homosexual film festival by saying it was for “administrative” purposes.
film festival shows that he is totally out of touch with the vast The tax money to support the homosexual film festival follows majority of American taxpayers,” said AFA president Donald E.
public disclosure of a recent grant to homosexual film producer Wildmon. “To support with tax dollars homosexual porn films Todd Haynes to produce a movie called “Poison”. The Castro indicates that this agency has no intention of stopping the misuse Theater in San Francisco said the movie was “acclaimed as the most important gay American film in years.” NEA gave the $12,000 tax grant to Frameline in San Francisco.
Congressmen and Senators who voted to continue government “Chrm. Frohnmayer knew that this money would be used to help funding of the NEA last year had been informed that the NEA promote homosexual films, yet he did not hesitate to give the used tax dollars to support the homosexual film festival. But they funds. While reducing other grants, Mr. Frohnmayer increased voted to continue tax support for such NEA-funded projects the amount of tax money supporting the homosexual film festival anyway. Congressmen who voted to continue funding the NEA feel that taxpayers should be forced to pay for such “art” as the The NEA has been supporting the homosexual films for years.
homosexual film festival. For a complete list of Congressmen In 1988, the NEA gave the homosexual film festival $6,800; in and Senators who voted to continue spending tax money for the NEA grants, see the November/December issue of the AFA According to the Washington Blade, the homosexual film festival “usually includes some homoerotic [homosexual The address: Congressman: U.S. House of Representatives, pornography] scenes.” The San Francisco Sentinel described the Washington, DC 20515. Senators: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC film Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia, shown at a past festival, as “a
20510. The phone number for your Congressman and Senators is lesbian fantasy about travelers kidnapped by the Mongolian equivalent of Amazons. Horny lesbians will want to see Susie Concerned individuals can also write President George Bush, Bright’s presentation of lesbian erotica.horny gay men will be The White House, Washington, DC 20500. Mr. Bush appointed primed for another peek at Bobby Kendall’s buns.” Mr. Frohnmayer to his post and defends Frohnmayer’s actions.
Church burns while
Annual AFA Chapter Conference
homosexuals protest
July 19-21, 1991 Tupelo, Mississippi
worship ended recently when fire brokeout in their building. Outside the building, Workshops designed for existing
they were greeted by demonstrators—including men dressed in women’s clothes, and potential local chapters:
who protested the church’s firing ofCarolyn Val-Schmidt.
In January, church officials asked Ms.
How to get started
Val-Schmidt to quit her volunteer post aschoirmaster for a singles group that met at How to raise funds
the church. Church officials said that Ms.
Utilizing resources of national AFA office
Val-Schmidt could remain in the congre-gation but was barred from any leadership How to organize, execute a successful picket
position because of her homosexuality.
How to involve others in your community
“Ladies in Support of Prejudiced Presby- How to make your local chapter more effective
terians” paraded in drag in front of thechurch.
at the church, refused comment on the fire and protest. He also refused to appear on Feature:
pastor may have been worried about be-ing photographed because of threateningcalls made to the church.
“The music ministry of Steve and Annie Chapman has blessed people all over America. AFA is grateful to have this talented love us, but they still see us as a behavior couple among our strong supporters.” and a lifestyle. We’re not a lifestyle. We’re --Don Wildmon
a cultural minority,” said lesbian SueLarson of Boulder.
Denver Rocky Mountain News, 3/20/91 AFA Chapter Office, P.O. Drawer 2440 Tupelo, MS 38803 Homosexual leaders laud Senator Hatch, get
introduction of special homosexual rights legislation
A group of U.S. Senators and Representatives has introduced inviting them to the White House for two bill signings and legislation which gives homosexuals special rights because of meeting with openly gay people with AIDS in 1989, some activists suggest that the president may be giving Republican According to Outweek, a publication oriented toward the members of Congress ‘permission’ to be ‘more open-minded’ homosexual community, the legislation has a record number of co-sponsors. Sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Alan Cranston of “This, activists suggest, may in turn account for the increased California and in the House by Rep. Ted Weiss of New York, the numbers of Republicans who now are not only willing to vote for measure “would extend to American lesbians and gay men the gay interests, but who will take to the House and Senate floor to protections of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, making discrimination make speeches, sponsor pro-gay initiatives and help block anti- on the basis of sexual orientation in the areas of employment, public accommodations, housing and federally assisted programs “‘Now it’s more than just [New York’s pro-gay Republican Rep.] Bill Green,’ quips [Eric] Rosenthal [political director for “I think we’re definitely off to a great start,” said Peri Jude the Human Rights Campaign Fund]. ‘Until a few years ago, Radecic, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s lobbyist.
virtually the only Republican we could count on was Bill Green.
Outweek reported: “Bolstered by the 1990 victories on the Hate Crimes Statistics Act, which for the first time included a “And with the help of many of those pro-gay Republican provision on ‘sexual orientation’ in federal law; the Americans members of Congress, most notable among them the pivotal With Disabilities Act, which, among other things, banned AIDS- Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, in 1990 every anti-gay related discrimination nationwide; the removal of the United initiative that was introduced to the 101st Congress eventually States’ ban on AIDS and gay immigration; and several other AIDS-related bills, gay and lesbian lobbyists are now suggesting [Last year Hatch, a Republican from Utah, was a leader in the that action on the gay rights bill is in the foreseeable future.” Senate in opposing any restrictions on the kinds of art which the Outweek went on to explain new support that homosexuals National Endowment for the Arts could fund. The NEA annually are receiving from Republicans. “Within the party, a newly gives thousands of tax dollars to support pro-homosexual art.] formed national group of gay Republicans, United Republicans Hearings on the new bill giving special rights to homosexuals for Equality and Privacy, has already achieved a number of small is expected to be in 1992, according to Outweek.
but impressive victories. Among them was a 1989 meeting with Listed below are the Senators and Representatives who are co- Bush administration staffers, and official invitations from the sponsoring the new pro-homosexual bill.
White House, secured through California’s former Republican The address: Congressman: U.S. House of Representatives, Sen. Pete Wilson, to the president’s signing of the Hate Crimes Washington, DC 20515. Senators: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510. The phone number for your Congressman and Senators is “With Bush himself quietly signaling to gays and lesbians by Senators:
Representatives
The decent majority is under siege
By Don Feder
Creators Syndicate Inc.
What will it take to rouse the decent majority? How long will Among the prejudices exposed: “Heterosexism: oppression of Middle America slumber while militant perversion advances on those sexual orientations other than heterosexual, such as gays, every front, securing political sanction, indoctrinating the young, lesbians and bisexuals; this can take place by not acknowledging forcing taxpayers to subsidize its bizarre life-style, unleashing a torrent of hatred against dissenters.
Unless we warmly embrace
The Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx just became the largest private employer to offer spousal benefits to Ozzie and homosexuals, tell them how
Harry families. “It very clearly sounds like they’re blazing a trailfor not-for-profit organizations,” said Dallas Salisbury of the much we appreciate their
Employee Benefit Research Institute. A four-lane highway to charming lifestyle in all of its
On the same day, Boston City Councilor David Scondras, a delightful aspects (bathhouses,
homosexual, unveiled his domestic partners bill, requiringtaxpayers to cover health insurance premiums for the “non- bars, sadomasochism, practices
traditional families” of city employees.
too shocking to describe here),
Mockingly titled the Family Protection Act, it is intended to “open up a debate about the American family,” Scondras discloses.
we are oppressing them.
Ellen Zucker, president of the Boston chapter of NOW and anardent proponent of the legislation, insists: “It is a fantasy to saythat heterosexual marriage is the only kind of family that exists.
No longer is mere sufferance sufficient. Now, unless we warmly embrace homosexuals, tell them how much we appreciate A smiling George Bush signed
their charming lifestyle in all of its delightful aspects (bathhouses,bars, sadomasochism, practices too shocking to describe here), the so-called Hate Crimes bill,
Such vile bigotry is being rooted out at the source. The the first legislative recognition of
National Association for the Education of Young Children is the homosexuality at the federal
largest accreditation agency for preschool institutions. ItsNovember, 1990 conference included a presentation by the Gay level, while representatives
and Lesbian Caucus on “sexual preference, pride and the early of gay groups looked
Among the reading material suggested for use in day-care on approvingly.
centers is Daddy’s Roommate, a truly fractured fairy tale. “Mommyand Daddy got a divorce last year. Now there’s somebody new at Nor, some would say, is it even the most desirable kind of Daddy’s house. Daddy and his roommate Frank live together.
family.” Did you get that? First social poison is sanctified. Then Sleep together. Being gay is just one more kind of love.” After milk and cookies, kids can move on to Heather Has Two The assault on nature racked up some impressive victories last Mommies, wherein little Heather explains how Mama Jane and year. The immigration ban on homosexuals and HIV-infected Mama Kate decided to have her—by artificial insemination. The visitors was overturned. A smiling George Bush signed the so- erotic brave new world is just a story-time away.
called Hate Crimes bill, the first legislative recognition of Their victories have emboldened the lunatic fringe of the gay homosexuality at the federal level, while representatives of gay rights movement (ACT-UP and Queer Nation) to freely assault groups looked on approvingly. A White House staffer who ancient faiths. In his essay in the April 1 issue of U.S. News, John objected to their presence at the ceremony was sacked. And First Leo refers to a recent demonstration outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral Lady Barbara Bush wrote a letter of support to the Parents and as “a classic hate rally, very likely the most bitter anti-Catholic At the state and local level, the success of gay rights is The decent majority is either too
premised on a two-pronged strategy: Browbeat legislative bodies repulsed, averting their eyes
into approving the measures, then use a well-oiled machine toblock voter repeal. A committee of the Connecticut General from a deeply disturbing
Assembly recently approved a statewide gay rights bill.
In Pittsburgh, a citizens group collected over 11,000 signatures spectacle, or too scared
to force a repeal referendum of the city’s gay rights ordinance.
to get involved.
Homosexuals with high-powered legal support and computeranalysis were able to disqualify enough signatures to deny themballot status. It’s an old story: ragtag family defenders (under- one conducted since the heyday of the Know-Nothings.” Referring funded, politically inexperienced) overwhelmed by homosexuals to entertainment in gay bars and street-theater, Leo comments: who’ve spent decades building a political network.
“Savage mockery of Christianity is now a conventional part of But even their victories in the political arena pale compared to their blitzkrieg advances on the social front. Smith College in And why not? Who will openly oppose them? The decent Northhampton, Massachusetts, gives incoming freshmen a two- majority is either too repulsed, averting their eyes from a deeply page handout to sensitize them to the myriad forms of persecution.
disturbing spectacle, or too scared to get involved.
allows God to “rekindle faith and hope for Please feel free to use my letter to help Porn involved in crime
others if it can, but please don’t use my Road, Franklin, NC 28734; 704/524-5741.
enough, just having to write this in the first Post-abortion sidewalk
counselors sought
Carreon if Carreon had any video gamesthey could play. He said he “killed” seeking to assist abortion-injured women, failed—as the man in this song did—to counseling as women leave abortuaries.
Our life is but a breath. Let’s make the escorts, clinic personnel, or boy friends to camera after the sexual assault and said he employees are counting the day’s profits,and boy friends have disappeared.
contributed to “major pollution problems” Pornography found
legal action against abortionists if they are in possession of pair
experience is still fresh in their minds. For charged with child porn
ing claims about the effectiveness of Plax been arrested. John Borelli and his wife, including child pornography; filming chil- Ministry offers quality
dren in a sex act; perverted sexual practice; Christian films, videos
$70,000 to cover the cost of the investiga- second- and third-degree sex offense with source for quality films, videos and books.
Films for Christ is a non-profit, interde- that the advertisements for the mouth rinse nominational, evangelical mission offering victim, sodomy and incest with a minor.
unique, high-quality products. Videos may be purchased or rented, and 16mm films are disease and implied it is the only way to home, they confiscated literally thousands the product label and its advertisements.
“It is no surprise that Pfizer practiced Salisbury (Maryland) Daily Times, 10/3/91 Christ, and features Dr. D. James Kennedy.
Disney plans nationwide lottery
not care about the kind of filth they help films, defends the Biblical view of creation.
sponsor on television isn’t likely to be announced that they will try to televise a is another current film title that appeals to polluting of rivers,” said AFA president is a classic children’s film telling the story drugs other than those made by Pfizer.
as low as $19. For a catalog, write: Films Ministry to ministers
saying that he was taking all the Feldene counters stress, burn-out
Mesa, AZ 85202; or call 602/894-1300.
prescribing Feldene to any of his patients.
time apart with the Lord, whether to seek renewal in their spirit, or healing of family free from all that I have allowed myself to record to others and asking them to do the relationships,” says Larry F. Pons, director of Christian Training Center International.
I apologize for the length of this letter, state that I have allowed myself to fall to. I cease prescribing Pfizer’s medicines.
wanted to let you know that I am desperate defending their sponsorship of TV filth by please, please pray for me, that I may return saying that “personal values and standards from the darkness and once again be able to cannot satisfy all points of view.” The policeman, lies, illegally occupies a home broken, have no fear. The problem is all in gunshots and five explosions fill the movie.
November 11) Much profanity, gory suicide 24) The police officer-heroes in this movie and murder scenes, and illicit sex are the features of this movie. Psychopathic Alex and Pfizer, along with a card containing a “Hemorrhoid.” Sleazy sex is introduced list of the products to boycott. The cards and his wife, in self defense, stab and shoot psychiatrist in order to make a tape with Individuals are urged to join the boycott, and to write or call the companies and let features a man electrocuted in a whirlpool Programs which S.C. Johnson
helped sponsor:
involved in a homosexual affair, and that a husband Archie is having an affair with a dies, college daughter Barbara pines, “I and in three days they’re sleeping together.
wish I could have told him that I’m gay.” Karate cologne, Iron cologne, Lady Stetson She and her lesbian lover figure prominently cream, Preferred Stock cologne, Shape’n major characters. In a men’s room scene, he remarks to two men, “If you two ever racism is the over-all theme, the hour is filled with some 20 uses of profanity. The illicit affair between the police chief and medicine, TZ-3 athlete’s foot ointment, husband are going to a mate-swap event.
including explicit sex dialogue between the and only rational character, says his father & Sons, Inc., 1525 Howe Street, Racine, can “go to hell” because he won’t accept Richard’s homosexuality. The insensitive, while riding his bike down the street, his products, Curel skin lotion, Edge shaving singing, “Why, Lord?” over repeated shots L’envie perfume, Skintastic body gel, Soft Programs Pfizer helped sponsor:
Carnu polish, Clean & Clear wax, Duster rendezvous around their busy schedules— and the schedule of Sara’s young daughter Future floor coating, Glade room odorizer, Molly. Both discuss their plans with close Glo Coat floor coating, Glory rug cleaner, has AIDS, attempts suicide in jail. Sympathy protection. David’s friend Stan longs for wax, Raid insecticide, Rain Barrel fabric a great looking woman and ‘Wham!’ just softener, Shout stain remover, Step Saver have casual sex!” Ultimately, their plans are thwarted, but the lesson is still clear: of programs which S.C. Johnson and Pfizer Neal, help me demonstrate this simple test.
sponsors of sex, violence and profanity.
[Here she takes two of Neal’s fingers to represent a penis.] Just take a roll of ordinary before helping sponsor the programs.
Programs which both advertisers
stamps. [She licks the stamps slowly as she none of the traditional religious bodies in helped sponsor include:
sticks them around Neal’s fingers and as behind-the-scenes men discuss her tongue.] defender of pluralism, called the people of intolerance of Christians in his programs.
Peoria, Illinois, “provincial” when they tianity has failed. In his new found “spiri- supported their television station’ s deci- wanted to have his new grandson baptized.
Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu’s “Tao Te along with his suggestion, Archie decided that and other sources, Mr. Lear feels that that our society is “rooted in tolerance which allows for the diverse expression of Archie said: “You gotta use force; that is dium, television tries to reflect that diver- and death of Christ. One character, Rev.
Bressan says that “a positive portrayal died when the television set fell into his critical act on the part of CBS, which has of religion plays a crucial role in this se- report about a plane crashing into a church.
ceeding episode is that many roads lead to and others) to address the spiritual needs the same destination . . . In our opinion
said: “He died for the 6:30 news, Lord.
For the sins of the 6:30 news.” Loretta, to promote his religion on their network.
in no way denigrates, trivializes or ridicules portrayed as utterly ignorant and stupid, the beliefs or traditions of Christians or any but equally sincere and well-intentioned, delves into spirituality, and. well. gen- erally questions the meaning of life. At the root of each situation-of-the-week is Lear’s trivialized or ridiculed the beliefs of Chris- exploited his son’ s evangelistic work for intention to provoke the audience to think profit. He was involved in a shady housing deal called “Condos for Christ.” After the sion of Jesus by identifying Edith Bunker, boy’s death, Merle planned to devote all spiritual facilitator, Lear is hoping SUN- his time to this semi-swindle while talking being symbolic of Him. Edith, the charac- about “spreading the message of Christ.” attaining ‘nourishment for the soul’.” The Rev. Mr. Steadfast, another character on the show, carried a pint of whiskey in the banks of that stream over those thou- sand miles of varying stripes. Things would Times, Lear said the key character in SUN- be very different as they grew. Look at it who talks to God. Sometimes she refers to stream. Forget (emphasis in original)
God as “He,” sometimes as “She,” some- what people find for themselves along the times as “Someone” and, when personal, stream. Whatever (emphasis in original)
they find is terrific. We don’t have to deal with that. We can deal with what it is that nourishes us. What is the stream about that teresting but very straight in the way she of her “visits .” It was Norman Lear’s way reads scripture.” He uses Ben, the series hero, to blame Christians for the holocaust: concept in a speech to the American Acad- adultery” and “Thou shalt not steal.” For emy of Religion, “I had mainline religions history with the amount of wars started for Mr. Lear, sacred religious principles are answer me after the talk. That’s what they always good for a disparaging laugh.
were afraid of: that I was going to homog- enize—not I, but the result of this kind of thinking, I have to believe, would homog- NER to proclaim his belief that we should enize their jobs, their lives, their careers.” put aside our Bibles: “I think we should take the Bible and the Koran and the Tal- to Lear, said that “words such as ‘da--’ and mud, put those holy symbols aside until we ‘he--’ became commonplace in prime time remember what we find sacred in that tree, temptation of lust doesn’t mean he loves in that butterfly and in each other,” he said.
Lear says his own spiritual odyssey began “What’s wrong with a married man having Group, is trying to defuse the controversy in me, which has always been in me, which Maude: “I want to go to bed with you.” pluralism. Lear, who claims to be a great lesbian affair while Merle slept with both.
Wanda told Merle: “That’s what marriage is, concentrated lust.” On another episode, your mother and sister, and you shall live.
If you do not come, I shall see to it that your take measures to ensure that future exhib- its of this nature will not be paid for by the religious practice and teaching for which assured her: “You’re sweet, you’re kind, opportunity to defend in a court of law. In and you’re fun. These are the things that the past, PAW has continually stated that church and state should be separate.
Coors supports homosexual
occult religion in public schools, Lear’s group does not seek to have it removed but magazine with advertising
lead to an evil habit. Nancy told him not to Murderers imitate porn film
worry, because “evil” spelled backward is ana, said that Professor Robert David Little magazine called Genre with advertising.
and alleged serial killer Larry Eyler watched the porn movie Caligula together before
services. Instead, it is depending on sup- creating and casting spells and charms to Stephen R. Agan was remarkably similar to a murder Little and Eyler saw in the hardcore ing support to the homosexual community.
occult characters, and similar activities.
PAW has declared that this lawsuit “is the
Little’s attorney tried, unsuccessfully, national test case over the ‘Impressions’ to suppress the videotape of the movie and series.” Lear’s organization has sought to be involved in the lawsuit from the time it was first filed, calling it “contrived” and slaying. Accounts said that he will testify Joseph’s beer, Killian’s Irish Red ale.
“outlandish” even before the suit was de- that after viewing Caligula, he and Little
livered to the school district. In ruling on him, taped his mouth and tied his arms and “Impressions,” Judge William B. Shubb indicated that he questioned whether PAW, or the parents for whom it is acting, have to testify that he stabbed Agan repeatedly Church drops opposition,
any legal right to participate in the suit, but while Little photographed the scene. Little homosexual rights bill passes
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (which includes California) to accede. The selec- tions from “Impressions” which Lear’s homosexual rights bill didn’t carry the group defends as “imaginative” include: Florida governor orders
• Have the students work in small groups end to tax-supported
to create a spell to cure the ills of today’s anti-Christian ‘art’
passage of that state’s homosexual rights bill to the neutrality of the Roman Catho- • Have the children sit in a circle, pass Secretary of State not to help fund anti- Connecticut’s first openly homosexual leg- tacted by the Christian Coalition of Florida.
they have been transported to a different The Florida Division of Cultural Affairs— land. Tell the children that you’ve forgotten which receives $400,000 from the National earlier opposition to the bill and Sen. Dale homoerotic exhibit entitled “Scents and children prepare a magical chant that might in Orlando. The exhibit included such im- Observers speculated that the bill passed child hold an imaginary candle in front of ages as male sex organs draped with rosary dropped their opposition because Gov.
their eyes, they will have returned to the bating while wearing a crown of thorns—an classroom. The magic will have worked.
witches (from a 3rd grade story). They can sion, these pictures were quite disturbing, and I was shocked to learn that the exhibition the first time (where the witch tells the was partially funded with state monies. I do hero “You deserve to die for [seeing the witch ceremony]. But I will spare your life support such an exhibit, and I certainly do

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