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❚ Columns from Don
and Tim
❚ Follow-up
❚ Resources
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23
Education
❚ Controversial history
22
standards
Entertainment Industry
❚ Disney’s changing face 9
❚ Time Warner…
14
cultural polluter
15
❚ Dear Barbra
Homosexual Agenda
❚ Universities support
homosexual cause
News of Interest
20
10
OutReach
❚ Help for sex addicts… 19
18
❚ and their wives
❚ A story of restoration 17
Investment
Cap Cities/ABC
CBS
Comcast Corp.
General Electric/NBC
General Motors
Shares
70,500
1,400
20,000
364,200
102,100
(In partnership with Spectravision to provide
movies, including porn movies to hotel
rooms)
12,000
(Howard Stern show)
Marriot Corp.
104,000
(Has in-room porn movies)
Walt Disney Co. (p. 3 and 9) 148,600
School Prayer
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Television
❚ TV trash
❚ Reviews
After reading John Leo’s article on Time Warner (see page
14), AFA felt it would be interesting to see how heavily church
denominational pension boards
invest in not only Time Warner,
but also other companies in the
entertainment industry. Since it
was not possible to review the
investments of every denomination, we decided to take the two
largest Protestant denominations
and examine their pension investments. Generally speaking,
we felt that the investment of
pensions from other denominations would be similar.
Examining the holdings for
the Southern Baptist Annuity
Board as of 4/1/95, the latest
information we had, we found
the following. Some of these
may have changed and other
entertainment company stocks
may have been added.
Infinity Broadcasting
Pro-life
❚ Graduation prayer…
is it legal?
Church pensions
help fund entertainment industry
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Since 1992 the Southern Baptist Annuity Board has dropped
several entertainment companies
from its investments including:
ITT Corp. (owns Sheraton hotels
which has in-room porn movies), Multimedia (owner of The
Donahue Show), Viacom/ Paramount (movies and TV shows),
and Turner Broadcasting.
United Methodist Board
of Pensions holdings as of
12/31/93 (latest information we
have available) showed the following. Some of these may have
changed and new companies
may have been added. We have
listed these as found in their
Schedule of Investment which
continued on page 23
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MAY,
1995
May,
1995
Unilever doesn’t think public
will put values before products
On Wednesday, February 22,
AFA president Donald E. Wildmon sent Unilever chairman,
Richard Goldstein, an overnight
letter. In the letter, Wildmon
showed Mr. Goldstein the results
of the fall 1994 monitoring report
which indicated Unilever was a
leading sponsor of prime-time,
network TV sex, violence and
profanity. He expressed concern over Unilever’s advertising
practices, and expressed a willingness to meet with Unilever
to discuss Unilever’s rating,
advertising guidelines and ways
Unilever could improve its TV
advertising on more acceptable
shows.
Wildmon asked Goldstein to
respond by March 5; otherwise
AFA would assume Unilever is
not concerned about their rating
or interested in changing. Goldstein did not respond.
“From Unilever’s silence, one
thing is very clear,” said Wildmon. “Unilever doesn’t think
individuals will put their money
where their values are and the
best policy is to ignore them.”
The case against Unilever is
solid. The company is a leading
sponsor of TV sex, violence and
profanity. It is the top sponsor of
ABC’s R-rated NYPD Blue, giving almost twice as much adver-
tising revenue to the program as
any other NYPD Blue sponsor.
Unilever is also a major sponsor
of the sex-driven daytime TV talk
shows such as Maury Povich,
Geraldo, Donahue, and Sally
Jesse Raphael.
The latest report shows that
Unilever is a top sponsor of network TV shows which promote
the homosexual lifestyle. In addition, the company uses sex to sell
their Obsession perfume with ads
depicting female and male nudity
in several magazines.
“It is obvious that Unilever cares little about the values
taught in the TV shows it helps
sponsor or the magazine ads it
uses to sell Obsession,” Wildmon said.
“Mr. Goldstein apparently
thinks his Unilever products are
so important in our lives that
we prefer his products over the
moral and spiritual well-being
of our children. He obviously
isn’t concerned about a boycott
of Unilever products because
continued on page 23
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as a bulletin insert or newsletter.
Kmart drops Antonini, keeps porn
Kmart fired Joseph Antonini
last month, but decided to keep
the pornography that helped
force the decline in sales that led
to his departure. When Donald E.
Wildmon contacted new Kmart
chairman Donald S. Perkins and
asked him to get rid of the pornography in their Waldenbooks
stores, Perkins sent back a short
letter indicating the company had
no plans to pull the porn. Rather,
said Perkins, they are trying to
sell Waldenbooks.
Wildmon encouraged concerned individuals to continue to
boycott Kmart. “It is regrettable
that Mr. Perkins has decided to
keep Kmart in the porn business,”
Wildmon said. “Good business
sense would try to regain those
Kmart customers lost by the
boycott. I doubt very seriously
if Kmart will ever regain those
customers,” he stated.
Aiding and abetting In His steps
We are in the midst of a spiritual war, but many in leadership
positions in our churches have yet to recognize it – much less become
involved in it.
On the front page this month is an article concerning the investment of church pension funds in companies involved in the entertainment industry. I’m sure that there will be some criticism because we
elected to run the article. The purpose of the article is not to attack
either of the denominations mentioned (or any of the many others
which no doubt have similar investments but are not listed). The purpose of the article is to show the contradictions.
The decision by The Walt Disney Company to release the film Priest clearly points
out that contradiction. Disney originally planned to release the film on Good Friday, but
delayed the release after complaints from the Christian community. The film depicts the
lives of five priests – one involved in a homosexual relationship, another having sex with
his female housekeeper, another a drunk, the fourth an uncaring bishop and the fifth a
psychotic country priest.
Most denominational pension programs do not invest in liquor and tobacco and gaming
stocks, and for good reason. These industries are involved in producing destructive products. But what about the entertainment industry? Is there any other industry in our country
which even comes close in its destructive impact on that which we as Christians claim to
be good for individuals and society? Has the Christian community any greater antagonist
than the entertainment industry? Why would any church want to fund an industry which
seeks to destroy it?
One must wonder what kind of witness this makes. Churches and pastors regularly
make contributions to their retirement accounts. I suspect that few of them realize that
they are investing in companies which are intent on destroying the very faith they preach
and promote.
I found John Leo’s article (page 14) interesting. In April 1991, I wrote to the United
Methodist Board of Pensions explaining Time Warner’s involvement in pornography and
asked that the board divest funding in the company. Obviously, they rejected my request.
(Although, I must add, they did eventually divest from Kmart. And the Southern Baptist
Annuity Board divested from Time after the company published Madonna’s porn book.)
Those who serve on the pension boards of the various denominations are good people
with one desire – to provide the best retirement package possible. Many, if not most, serve
without pay. Perhaps this situation has arisen because no one has ever considered it a
problem.
Is it a problem the various boards can solve? Yes. I guess the place to begin is a letter
from those who are concerned to those responsible in the various denominations. Thank
them for their hard work and dedication. And ask them to please consider this matter.
I’m sure this will help the entertainment industry – and our own people of faith – to
understand our concern better.
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I traveled recently on a 10-day trip to
Greece and Israel with a group led by my
dad. Many people don’t know that dad
used to lead trips to the Holy Land twice
a year before he started American Family
Association. This was his 19th tour.
It was a great trip as the Bible came
to life. We toured Athens and Corinth.
We went to Mount Carmel, Nazareth and
the Jordan River. We took a boat ride on
the Sea of Galilee, we saw where Jesus
preached the Sermon on the Mount
and where he fed
the five thousand.
We then went on to
Jericho and up to
Jerusalem where we
spent four nights.
We went to Bethlehem before going to
the Garden of Gethsemane, Calvary and
the Garden Tomb. We saw the Mount of
Olives, the Temple Mount, the Dead Sea
and many, many other sights – too many
to mention in this column.
Indeed it is one thing to read stories
from the scripture but it’s another to
walk where Jesus walked. And I do mean
literally. In Jerusalem we followed the
exact route Jesus walked the night of his
betrayal when he was led to appear before
the religious leaders.
Many places we visited were interesting from a historical perspective. But
some places, for the sinner saved by grace,
caused tears to well up and a lump in the
throat. For me, one of the those places was
the Church of the Beatitudes overlooking
the Sea of Galilee. I was the last tourist
to return to the bus. To look out over the
grassy field by the water and imagine Jesus
surrounded by all those people who loved
him and whom he loved was an awesome
experience. I thought about those who
had gathered with the Lord, those whom
He had healed from sickness and disease.
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, lived and
taught some 2,000 years ago in the very
place I was standing. He taught:
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs
is the kingdom of heaven.
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they
will be comforted.
“Blessed are the meek, for they will
inherit the earth.
continued on page 23
AFA JOURNAL • MAY, 1995
Study: prime-time
profanity way up
Use of foul language on prime-time television has skyrocketed in the past four years,
and a university researcher thinks viewers
have become so desensitized to it that they
don’t bother to complain anymore.
“These days, language that was once
banned on the airwaves is delivered without
much ado,” says Barbara K. Kaye of Southern
Illinois University.
Kaye studied two weeks of prime time on
NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox – one from 1990
and another from 1994 – and found that foul
language increased 45% during that period.
The biggest increase was in sitcoms, Kaye
says, where off-color jokes shot up 370%.
Sitcom viewers now hear a dirty word every
five minutes on average. And the number of
foul words airing before 9 p.m. jumped from
99 in 1990 to 192 in 1994.
USA Today, 3/2/95
Airline restricts
religious expression
A Southwest Airlines attendant says she
has been told that while on duty, she cannot
read her Bible, she must cover her cross
necklace, and must not speak of God.
Vanessa McCauley said company officials
also told her that she was not to read her Bible
while traveling on the airlines as a passenger.
McCauley is a long-time employee with an
excellent work history.
A Southwest spokesman told AFA that
Federal Aviation Administration regulations
require complete attentiveness to the passenger cabin when on duty and reading the Bible
was a violation of the regulations. However
he did say that flight attendants could read a
flight manual while on duty.
To express your concern: Southwest Airlines, Pres. Herb Kelleher, 2702 Love Field
Drive, Dallas, TX 75235, 214-904-4000.
Southern city to host
homosexual celebration
Homosexual activists are making plans for
a homosexual pride weekend in Charlotte,
North Carolina. Plans for the five-day “cultural festival” include homosexual films, theater
performances, business and craft fair, cabaret
show, art exhibit and dance. “OutCharlotte”
is planned for next October.
Last year the city hosted a gay pride weekend which attracted more than 4,000 people,
according to The Charlotte Observer.
The Charlotte Observer, 3/10/95
MAY, 1995
A supplement for local bulletins & newsletters from the American Family Association
Disney may use new porn film to net
big bucks
Disney’s Miramax film company may
have purchased a movie that has been described as “nihilistic pornography,” in order
to “whip up a controversy, then sell the film
at top dollar…,” according to Newsweek
magazine.
Daily Variety, the news magazine of the
entertainment industry, called Kids “the
most controversial American film made in
the modern era or maybe ever.” According
to Newsweek the plot “follows a number
of barely-pubescent-looking boys and girls
around New York City as they smoke pot,
bait gays, beat a black man and engage in
graphic sex.” Kids opens with a boy nicknamed “the virgin surgeon” deflowering a
14-year-old girl.
Miramax didn’t make the movie, but paid
$3.5 million for the worldwide distribution
rights. Disney has a corporate policy not to
distribute NC-17 films and says the film is
so graphic there is no way it could be edited
for anything but an NC-17 (formerly, “X”)
rating. According to Newsweek Disney may
now be looking for a well-publicized rating
battle to stimulate the sale of the movie.
When it acquired Miramax nearly two
years ago Disney said it wouldn’t interfere
creatively with Miramax films and has
shunned responsibility for earlier objectionable releases such as Pulp Fiction and a new
movie, Priest (see page 9).
“Disney doesn’t want to take moral responsibility for the films of its subsidiaries,”
said AFA President Don Wildmon. “But their
refusal to distribute this filthy movie demonstrates that the company will indeed exert
pressure when money is involved!”
The profit potential of NC-17 films is
limited because most newspapers will not
carry ads for such films, many theaters refuse
to show them and big video chains refuse to
stock them.
A columnist for Daily Variety said, “Politicians and commentators will draw their long
swords to battle [Kids], a titanic NC-17 test
case will ensue, and the irony of Disney’s
parental role to Miramax will not be lost on
interested observers….Take my word for it,
there has never been anything remotely like
it before.” (See address on page 9.)
Newsweek, 2/20/95; Daily Variety, 1/27/95;
Wall Street Journal, 3/30/95
Celebrities speak out in
support of arts welfare
Hollywood actors who have largely made
their fortunes in the entertainment free market
are coming to the defense of the National
Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) as
both agencies face likely budget cuts from
Capitol Hill.
Singer/actress Barbra Streisand: “So
maybe it’s not about balancing the budget.
Maybe it’s about shutting the minds and
mouths of artists who might have something
thought-provoking to say.”
Actor/Director Robert Redford: “There’s
always going to be some conservative group
that is threatened by freedom, by free ideas
and by free expression in general.”
Actor Levar Burton: “Make no mistake
about it: privatization of PBS ultimately will
mean the commercialization of PBS.”
MediaNomics, 2/95
Time Warner first U.S. record
company to target homosexuals
Time Warner has become the first U.S.
record company to market a romantic product
for homosexual customers. The company
recently released Sensual Classics, Too a
new CD and cassette on Atlantic Records’
new classical division, Teldec.
According to the Seattle Gay News,
the cover and booklet artwork consists of
“black-and-white photos of two attractive
young men in a dreamy mood, upper bodies
entwined and bare.”
Seattle Gay News, 2/17/95
MAY, 1995
People making a difference
Frontlines
Station stops showing NYPD Blue
WTOK-TV in Meridian, Mississippi, has
announced the cancellation of ABC’s NYPD
Blue which features soft-core pornography,
nude sex scenes, extreme violence, and crude
and profane language.
Tom Wall, manager of the station, made a
brief announcement on a recent news broadcast saying he made the decision without
regard to any outside influence.
“The reason WTOK-TV dropped the porn
series is that several local companies which
advertise on the station had told WTOK-TV
they would pull their advertising if the program continued,” said Donald E. Wildmon,
president of American Family Association.
Wildmon spoke to a group of about 500
members of the Promise Keepers organization in Meridian about a month ago. In the
talk he encouraged local advertisers to pull
their advertising. Wildmon said that he had
information from several business people
indicating that they would pull thousands of
dollars of advertising from the station if the
series continued. WTOK-TV began showing
the program only about two months ago.
“This kind of result can happen in every
community in America if Christian business
people will take a stand,” Wildmon said.
Newspapers move explicit ads
Last November Blake McCormick of
Houston, Texas, complained to The Houston Chronicle and The Houston Post about
sexually explicit advertisements on the sports
page of the newspapers. In a letter to both
newspapers McCormick said his children,
being avid sports fans, read the sports news
every day. He asked the newspaper to drop the
advertising or move it to another section.
In December the Post moved the ads to
the classified section. Later the Chronicle
informed McCormick that they would also
move the objectionable ads.
Manager removes trashy magazines
The manager of a Kroger grocery store
in Vicksburg, Mississippi, recently removed
an issue of Sports Illustrated from magazine
racks after a customer objected to a photo
that exposed a woman’s bare breasts through
a fishnet top.
The customer, Carol McPherson, said Pete
Mitchell immediately pulled the magazine.
She is the state director of AFA in Mississippi.
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When she wrote to thank Mitchell, he wrote
back, “What Moms have to do is be aggressive to protect our future. Please continue to
improve this community and by all means
keep our eyes open.”
Church says no to AT&T bid
AT&T lost a large sale to a church in Ft.
Worth, Texas, recently because of the phone
company’s policies toward homosexuals.
According to David Miller of AFA of
Dallas, Texas, an affiliate of the American
Family Association, a Ft. Worth church had
already received a bid from AT&T for phone
equipment when a church administrator read
in AFA of Texas’ newsletter about AT&T’s
promotion of homosexuality. The church
administrator rejected AT&T’s offer because
of the company’s homosexual-friendly activities. The account would have been worth
around $30,000 to AT&T.
Tip for fighting porn: adopt-a-store
Citizen activists are meeting with success
in fighting pornography using the “adopta-store” strategy. It works like this: choose
a video store in your community that is
renting pornography. Pray specifically for
the owners, employees and patrons who
frequent the store as well as the families of
the patrons. Let the owners know what you
are doing. Remember that God said, “The
effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man
availeth much.”
Liberal newspaper thinks Christian magazine too political
World magazine reports The Washington Post, a liberal newspaper published in the
nation’s capital, recently refused to give them permission to reprint an essay by staff
writer Phil McCombs. The article, written on the occasion of January’s “March for Life,”
was about the deep regret he feels at the loss of his own child to abortion.
In denying permission to reprint the essay, Sarah H. Trott, director of Newsroom
Administration replied: “Unfortunately, I cannot give you permission to reprint the
article for the purpose you requested. The Washington Post does not permit the use of
news material for any purpose that is likely to be construed as politics.” She went on:
“We do not want to appear to endorse any particular point of view, or any candidate for
public office, any side in a public debate or any organization with a primarily political
purpose.”
World, 3/18/95
Private company offers to take over NPR
Graham’s Public Radio Service, a private, non-profit company, has offered to buy
National Public Radio for $1 and restructure it with the goal of eliminating its federal
subsidies. Graham’s proposal would entail massive downsizing.
Human Events, 3/3/95
Generation X says abortion is murder
A compilation of opinion polls by the American Enterprise Institute found that 1829-year-olds are the most likely adult age group to agree that “abortion is murder:”
54% agree, while 38% disagree. They also say that “divorce should be more difficult to
obtain,” according to the National Opinion Research Center.
Washington Watch, 2/21/95
Homosexual lobby appoints pro-Communist as director
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) has appointed a former proCommunist Filipino activist as its executive director, according to Lambda Report on
Homosexuality (LR). Lesbian activist Melinda Paras was picked in December to head
NGLTF. She was deported from the Philippines in the 1970s after being accused of
working with Communist guerrillas seeking to overthrow the Filipino president.
Paras’ appointment has been criticized within the homosexual movement. The head of
the Texas branch of the Log Cabin Club, a homosexual Republican group, was reported
in a homosexual newspaper as saying Paras’ membership in “numerous Marxist-Leninist
groups” exposed her “as an individual from the most extreme leftist fringe.”
Paras replaced Peri Jude Radecic, an open sadomasochist who describes herself as
a “butch bottom leatherwoman.”
Sources cited for “Christians and Society Today” indicate source of basic information only.
AFA JOURNAL • MAY, 1995
TELEVISION
Trash TV: recycling broadcast garbage
By LAURA BULKELEY GOLDSMITH
Reprinted from Dispatches
I
t’s amazing that so little attention has been
paid to the new “networks,” UPN (United
Paramount Network) and WB (Warner
Brothers), both of which launched in January
1995. Remember Terry Rakolta? She was the
woman vilified for her stand against the new
Fox network’s Married... With Children,
way back in 1987. Her name, to the Hollywood establishment, became synonymous
with cretinism and censorship. Others who
have since spoken out against Fox or any of
the programming that since has soiled the
airwaves (such as Donald Wildmon of the
American Family Association) have likewise been demonized and/or silenced by the
mainstream media.
Most of us in the general public are so
desensitized to crassness, we don’t even
consider complaining any more. It no longer
occurs to us to be outraged by what we see
on television.
For example, use of foul language on
prime-time TV has skyrocketed in the past
four years, according to researcher Barbara
K. Kaye of Southem Illinois University. She
studied two weeks of prime time – one from
1990 and another from 1994 – on NBC, ABC,
CBS and Fox and found that foul language
increased 45% during that period. The biggest
increase was in sitcoms. Off-color jokes shot
up 370% from 1990 to 1994. Sitcom viewers,
Kaye says, now hear a dirty word every five
minutes on average. And the number of foul
words airing before 9 p.m. ET/PT (8 p.m.
CT/MT)jumped from 99 to 192 (94%) in that
same period. In the study, she considered everything from the so-called seven dirty words
(she heard four of the seven) to profanity,
epithets and scatological words.
Kaye has expressed her understandable
concern that younger viewers “will mimic
what they see on TV and come to believe
that verbal abuse and swearing are acceptable
ways to express anger and disappointment.
It’s a form of verbal aggression – when we
use cuss words to insult each other.”
If Ms. Kaye had continued her research
into 1995 and included the emergence of
the two new networks, her numbers would
have been even more scandalous. Trying to
outdo Fox in the vulgarity department, both
UPN and WB are apparently attempting to
find a similar demographic niche – appealing
to men between the ages of 18 and 34. Oh,
men, they give you so little credit!
AFA JOURNAL • MAY, 1995
Jamie Kellner, of Warner Brothers, says “I
read somewhere that we make Fox look like
the Learning Channel, which is a compliment,
I guess.” And he is not kidding. What’s happening on these networks? Well, a woman and
her stepson are caught fornicating in a steam
bath by her husband, who promptly dies. A
seven-year-old wonders aloud whether his
mother has entered menopause, and laughter
is heard. A hypnotist convinces a beautiful
waitress that he’s Sylvester Stallone so that
she’ll have sex with him, pleasing both “big
and little Rambo.”
Lesbians abound. “How many times do I
have to tell you, Randy, I’m a lesbian,” says
Tess, the good-looking super on UPN’s Pig
Sty. The same network’s Platypus Man
executed many k.d. lang [lesbian country
singer] jokes when star Richard Jeni suspects
his female sportswriter neighbor of being gay.
Not to be outdone, WB’s Muscle pictured
a lesbian character ogling a scantily clad
woman while uproarious laughter is featured
on a laugh track in overdrive.
Warner also scored a crassness coup when
it snagged Married…With Children creator
Ron Leavitt to produce a sequel of sorts:
Unhappily Ever After. This show is about
life after divorce in which the ex-husband,
Jack, is seen living with a talking stuffed
bunny (no kidding) with the voice of Bobcat
Goldthwait. The bunny enjoys porno movies
and says things like, “Stop thinking with your
carrot, boy.” After a date, he asks Jack, “So,
did you ram her? Boff her?” Cute.
Kellner says, “We’re a little more irreverent than we want to be right now. You have
to push stuff over the line to be able to pull
it back.” Fox’s run-ins with outraged viewers
and family organizations proved profitable.
Rakolta’s boycott of advertisers backfired;
Married... is currently the longest-running
sitcom on any network. UPN and WB are
fervently hoping for the same results.
All we can do, seemingly, is arm ourselves with solid, quantitative information
(thanks to researcher Kaye); be aware of the
manipulative, devious mechanics of it all; tell
others; hide the kids and for goodness’ sake,
TURN IT OFF.
■ A new resource for parents who want to know:
“What can I do about MTV?”
American Family Association, in conjunction with AmeriFilms, is pleased to announce the availability of a new
video, MTV Examined. The 30-minute video, produced by
Reel to Real Ministries, arms parents, teachers, pastors and
concerned citizens with the facts about what our children,
teens and young adults are watching on MTV.
MTV Examined takes a comprehensive – and sometimes
shocking – look at the destructive effects of MTV and how
the programming often crosses the line from entertainment to promotion of illicit sex, violence, drug abuse, immorality, profanity and liberal politics.
can Portrait
“I strongly encourage everyone to order a copy,
watch it and show it to their church and other groups
– and then take action!” Don Wildmon, AFA president
and founder.
The cost of MTV Examined is $10. Make check out to AFA; send order to:
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friend Chuck reveals that he plans
to help his father die. (The man has
terminal cancer.)
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■ Picket Fences (CBS, 3/31) Dr.
Jill Brock, series heroine and voice of
reason, is charged with manslaughter
for increasing a patient’s morphine
dosage to fatal level. (The man’s
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■ Sisters (NBC, 4/1) Another
series heroine, Alex Reed, is on trial
for mercy killing in this episode.
Alex administered a lethal dose of
medication to her step-father – per
his request.
In the courtroom, Judge Branford
reveals open hostility toward Alex
and her lawyer. When it is revealed
that he has terminal cancer, he removes himself from the case and
declares a mistrial. The D.A. says
he will not seek a new trial.
Meanwhile, sister Teddy continues her sexcapades with drug
dealer Daniel, who had Teddy’s
cop husband murdered last year.
Teddy intends to use sex to trap her
partner into revealing incriminating
evidence of his illegal activities.
Her college daughter breaks off her
sex relationship with a professor
after she sees him with his wife and
children.
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Kmart
CBS show promotes killing
babies when expedient
■ Chicago Hope (CBS, 3/20)
This episode champions the cause of
killing babies to serve others’ needs.
In the story, Dr. Shutt agrees to abort
a couple’s baby and transplant the
dead child’s tissue as treatment for
the father’s degenerative disease.
Dr. Watters, chief of staff, instructs Dr. Shutt not to do the abortion. Before the review board, Shutt
accuses Dr. Watters of letting his
Catholic regard for life interfere with
his good judgment. A woman on the
review board joins Shutt in his attack
on Watters’ “moral integrity.” Shutt
wins the debate, of course, and the
couple are validated in their creation
of a baby in order to kill it for their
own desires.
Advertiser: Warner-Lambert
Anti-Christian themes
reveal prime-time bigotry
■ Cape Fear (NBC, 3/5 repeat)
Attorney Sam Bowden, the movie’s
hero, hires a private investigator to
contract the murder of Max Cady, an
ex-con seeking to avenge Bowden’s
inadequate defense of Cady. Violent scenes climax in hand-to-hand
combat between the two, with lots
of blows and lots of blood. Closeups on bloody faces are graphic and
clearly gratuitous.
In addition, Cady is drawn as a
“Christian,” quoting scripture, wearing a cross tattoo, and referring to
speaking in tongues. The Christian
caricature was added to this re-make
of the earlier horror film.
Advertiser: Nissan
■ George Wendt Show (CBS,
3/8) This episode disparages the
Catholic church, couched in the context of a church casino fundraiser.
One reference speaks of Catholic
school stripping away boys’ self
esteem, and Dan (a series regular)
demands restitution for all the problems Father McGrudy created for
him and his brother George as kids.
Dan insults nuns and refers sarcastically to God as “Big Daddy.” Nuns
in the episode are stern, frowning,
unfriendly and unreasonable.
Advertiser: General Motors
■ The Simpsons (Fox, 3/26
repeat) This episode featured a
minister who willfully deceives
his congregation, covering up his
daughter’s expulsion from boarding
school. When she steals money from
the church offering, the minister allows an innocent child (ironically,
Bart Simpson) to take the rap and be
thought guilty for the girl’s crime.
Advertiser: Pepsi (Taco Bell)
Casual sex still a leading
prime-time sleaze factor
Prime-time continues to focus
on promiscuity and illicit sex as a
common theme. Sitcoms lead the
way in promoting promiscuity while
drama series, in a somewhat more
subtle way, make casual, illicit sex
a part of almost every hour-long
episode. Among prime-time characters, almost 90% of sex is outside
marriage.
■ Woman of the House (CBS,
3/20) Congresswoman Suzanne
Sugarbaker is visited by Dash,
one of her ex-husbands, who immediately begins to make sexual
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advances toward Jennifer, one of
the Congresswoman’s staff members. Suzanne’s three staff women
discuss who they fantasize naked,
and use euphemisms for male sexual
arousal. At the show’s end, Suzanne
and Dash prepare to have sex on her
office floor.
Advertiser: AT&T
■ Newsradio (NBC, 3/28) The
episode uses God’s name in vain 13
times in a plot that focuses on casual
sex between Dave and Lisa, boss and
assistant, at a radio station. They first
have sex after knowing each other
only a few days – at his place, at
her place, at the office, etc. Another
regular character has “quickie” sex
at the office with the delivery boy
– whom she’s never seen before.
Another regular reveals that he and
a co-worker also once had a secret
office sex fling going.
Advertiser: McDonald’s
■ The Nanny (CBS, 3/13 repeat)
Geriatric illicit sex is the focus of
this episode in which the star’s
aging grandmother is found in bed
with her sex partner. Sexual double
entendres are countless throughout
the dialogue, which includes a long
discussion about granny’s sex life as
she and her sex partner lie in bed.
Advertiser: Johnson & Johnson
■ Murphy Brown (CBS, 3/20)
Series star Murphy’s illegitimate son
is spending the day with Peter, his
father. Murphy thinks she’s pregnant, again by Peter, who proposes
to her during the episode. Implied
sex between Corky (female) and
Miller is also a part of the story line.
Profanity is frequent.
Advertiser: Ford
■ Medicine Ball (Fox, 3/20) Dr.
Kate Cooper storms into the hospital locker room while Tom (also a
doctor) is toweling off. They stand
around in casual conversation while
Tom is completely nude (not shown
on screen). A transexual appears in
one scene in which Dr. Maklin gives
breast exams at a health fair. He
tells Tom about becoming sexually
aroused during the exams. Profanity
occurs eight times.
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■ Living Single (Fox, 3/9) The
teaser has Overton and Synclaire
(female) in the bathtub together.
The illicit lovers are regulars on the
series. Maxine goes wild when Kyle
borrows a video which he thinks is
a movie, but which turns out to be
a porn video of Maxine and a male
stripper at a bridal shower. There
are frequent references to Kyle’s
promiscuity.
Advertiser: Pepsi
■ Hope & Gloria (NBC, 3/9) In
this debut episode, Hope and Gloria
meet in their apartment building, and
Gloria asks immediately if Hope has
had sex with the talkshow star whose
show she produces. Casual sex is assumed to be a part of everyone’s life.
Hope’s husband hits on Gloria –and
all of Hope’s female co-workers. He
leaves her during the episode.
On March 16, Gloria gets her exhubby to bring his cousin Pete to be
Hope’s surprise birthday date. Pete
turns out to be a promiscuous lecher.
Hope gets drunk, and is eager to have
sex with Pete right away. (Friends,
however, intervene.)
Advertiser: PM/General Foods
■ Friends (NBC, 3/9) Rachel
is angered that the boyfriend whom
she left at the altar (literally) is going to marry her good friend. Joke
lines focus on homosexuality, male
genitalia and monkey defecation.
God’s name is used in vain 10 times.
Several other profanities and crude
expressions also occur.
The March 23 repeat focuses on
varied perversions – Joey’s dad entertains his mistress at Joey’s home
(Mom is pleased with the adulterous
arrangement); a number of the men
and women see each other nude;
Phoebe (a masseuse) describes – for
guys and gals – the sexual arousal of
a client who hit on her; and Phoebe’s
latest lover (a shrink) analyzes Ross’s
marriage to a lesbian.
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■ Beverly Hills 90210 (Fox,
3/15) The college-age gang have a
session in which they discuss their
various illicit sexual relationships.
Donna confesses that her biggest fear
in life is “that being a virgin will cost
me every relationship I have.”
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Homosexual agenda gets
heavy promotion in primetime
ACTION
INDEX
Advocacy of the homosexual
agenda is evidently prime-time’s
most important cause if program
stories are any indication. Prime-time
programs relentlessly propagandize
the false premise of homosexuality
as a “normal” lifestyle. The reviews
below illustrate how the networks are
supporting the homosexual agenda,
more than any other moral/social
issue of our day.
■ Party of Five (Fox, 3/15)
It is revealed that Rolf, 12-yearold Claudia’s violin teacher and a
recurring character on the series,
is homosexual. It comes out in an
episode in which he is adopting a
child. In other story lines, Bailey
(17) and his girlfriend Jill celebrate
when her pregnancy test is negative.
Later in the episode, Jill dies of a
drug overdose.
Advertiser: Procter & Gamble
■ Roseanne (ABC, 3/22) Jackie,
sister to series heroine Roseanne, is
happy when her husband leaves her
and baby Andy because she’d been
seeing another man. She tells Roseanne, “I get to put pretty clothes on
Andy again, and if he turns out gay
we don’t care, because I’ll march in
one of those parades with him!”
Advertiser: Ford
■ Seinfeld (NBC, 3/16) Series
regular Elaine comes on to a guy at
the health club only to discover later
that he’s homosexual. He and his new
sex partner are shown in one scene at
the gym. She gives up pursuit of the
man because she recalls how it backfired when she once tried to “convert”
a homosexual she wanted to date.
Jerry (Seinfeld, the title character) is
convinced – with just cause – that he
was sexually molested by his dentist
and hygienist while he was under the
influence of novacaine.
On March 23, Seinfeld and his
friend Kramer volunteer for a PBS
fundraiser. Homosexual double entendre´ in one scene clearly gives
a plug to PBS and some of its prohomosexual programs.
Advertiser: Procter & Gamble
■ Single White Female (CBS,
Kmart Corporation
Chrm. Donald S. Perkins
3100 West Big Beaver
Road
Troy, MI 48084
Phone: 313-643-1000
FAX: 313-643-5249
Toll Free: 1-800-635-6278
Products: Borders Bookstores, Brentanos Bookstores, Builders Square
stores, Kmart stores,
Waldenbooks stores
Mars, Incorporated
Chrm. Forest E. Mars
6885 Elm St.
McLean, VA 22101
Phone: 703-821-4900
FAX: 703-448-9678
Products: Kal Kan pet food,
M & M’s candy, Skittles
candy, Snickers candy, Twix
candy, Uncle Ben’s rice,
Whiskas cat food
McDonald’s Corporation
Chrm. Michael R. Quinlan
1 Kroc Dr.
Oak Brook, IL 60521
Phone: 708-575-3000
FAX: 708-575-5512
Products: McDonald’s fast
food
Nissan Motor Corp., USA
Pres. Robert J. Thomas
Box 191
Gardena, CA 90248
Phone: 310-532-3111
FAX: 310-719-3343
Toll Free: 1-800-NISSAN-1
Products: Infiniti automobiles, Nissan motor vehicles
PepsiCo
Chrm. D. Wayne Calloway
700 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577
Phone: 914-253-2000
FAX: 914-253-2070
Products: Doritos corn
chips, Kentucky Fried
Chicken, Lay’s potato chips,
Pizza Hut restaurants, Rold
Gold pretzels, Taco Bell
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PM/General Foods
(Philip Morris Co., Inc.)
Chrm. Geoffrey C. Bible
120 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Phone: 212-880-5000
FAX: 212-878-2167
Toll Free: 1-800-343-0975
Products: General Foods,
Kraft foods, Oscar Mayer
meats, Post cereals.
Reebok International Ltd.
Chrm. Paul Fireman
100 Technology Center Dr.
Stoughton, MA 02072
Phone: 617-341-5000
FAX 617-341-5087
Toll Free: 1-800-382-3823
Products: Reebok footwear
and apparel, Rockport
shoes & apparel
The Procter & Gamble
Co.
Chrm. Edwin L. Artzt
P. O. Box 599
Cincinnati, OH 45201
Phone: 513-983-1100
FAX: 513-562-4500
Toll Free: 1-800-435-9254
Products: Coast soap, Duncan Hines foods, Pepto-Bismol, Sunny Delight drink,
Tide
Unilever United States
Inc.
Pres. Richard A. Goldstein
390 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Phone: 212-888-1260
FAX: 212-906-4411
Toll Free: 1-800-598-1223
Products: Close-Up
toothpaste, I Can’t Believe
It’s Not Butter, Lipton tea
and soups
Warner-Lambert Co.
Chrm. Melvin R. Goodes
201 Tabor Road
Morris Plains, NJ 07950
Phone: 201-540-2000
FAX: 201-540-3761
Toll Free: 1-800-223-0182
Products: Efferdent denture
cleaner, Halls cough drops,
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3/22) In a bizarre story, Allison (the
movie’s heroine) has a roommate
(Hedy) who becomes obsessed with
her and sets out to destroy Allison’s
sexual affair with Sam. Hedy succeeds by killing Sam. Graham, a
neighbor, is also Hedy’s murder
victim. Graham, though a minor
character, was the most normal
seeming character in the movie. He
was homosexual. The movie also
has some graphic violent scenes and
uses God’s name in vain 20 times.
Advertiser: Unilever
■ Sisters (NBC, 3/4) Norma,
the recurring lesbian character,
befriends series star Alex in her
public debate concerning Alex’s
mercy killing of her Alzheimersstricken step-father. Dialogue, as is
normal for this series, had at least
16 profanities, most God’s name
in vain.
Advertisers: Procter & Gamble
Nissan
■ My Brother’s Keeper (CBS,
3/19) Tom Bradley, a teacher, has
been HIV-positive for eight years
before he comes out of the closet.
His insurance company refuses to
pay for experimental surgery in
which Tom’s identical twin would
donate bone marrow in an attempt
to save Tom’s life. Community response to learning of Tom’s illness
is incredible – literally incredible!
Not a single teacher, nor a single
parent reacted negatively to the sudden knowledge that an HIV-positive
teacher had been working there for
eight years! All joined together to
raise money for Tom’s care.
Advertiser: PM/General Foods
AT&T
Unilever
■ Melrose Place (Fox, 3/13)
Michael has Amanda (critically ill)
move in with him while his wife
–the third one since the series began
in 1992 – is out of town for a few
days. Matt, series homosexual, ever
the voice of morality, admonishes
Michael, “You’re married!”
On March 20, Matt again appears
in scenes focusing on the self-serving back stabbers and bed hoppers
of the series. Brooke, new kid on
the block, tries to seduce Billy, but
is interrupted by her fiance. Amanda
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hires Brooke to be her personal spy at
work while Amanda recuperates.
The series debut was repeated on
March 27. Matt appeared in three
scenes in this initial episode, which
first aired on July 29, 1992.
Advertiser: Reebok
■ Medicine Ball (Fox, 3/13
debut) The opening scene is in an
emergency room where a woman is
being treated for gunshot wounds
inflicted by a jilted lover. The script
has one attendant ask, “Cops get
the guy?”
“What guy?” another attendant responds. Lesbian innuendo is clear.
Beyond this subtle nod to homosexuality, the plot proceeds predictably for a hospital “drama” focusing
on young doctors obsessed with
sex.
Advertiser: Procter & Gamble
■ Hope & Gloria (NBC 3/23)
Isaac, who will apparently be a
regular character on the new series,
discusses his break-up with his
homosexual lover, Emilio. Emilio
dumped him at the airport because he
feared taking Isaac home and coming
out to his family.
Advertiser: Ford
■ Friends (NBC, 3/16) The recurring lesbian characters, Carol and
Susan, appear in this episode. Carol is
the ex-wife of Ross, a series regular.
In addition to the homosexual theme,
Phoebe tells the gang that Rachel’s
new sex partner came to Phoebe for
a massage (her occupation) and hit
on her. Other references to casual
sex also occur.
Advertiser: Pepsi (Taco Bell,
KFC)
ABC, Unilever keep NYPD
Blue in the gutter, on the air
On March 7, ABC re-aired NYPD
Blue’s infamous nude shower scene
featuring a series hero and his sex
partner. Dialogue had 13 profanities
and several euphemisms for sex.
On March 14, Harold, former
sex partner of Donna (precinct secretary), appears unannounced. Det.
Medavoy now lives with Donna – he
left his wife and children for her.
John, a homosexual, replaces
Donna as secretary when she takes
an extended leave of absence. Full
rear nudity (of a corpse) is displayed.
A witness to a crime offers Det. Simone
sex, which he declines – at least, for
the time being. Language is predictable – profanity and other crude terms
abound.
In the March 28 episode (a repeat),
Donna’s sister Dana shows up to stay
with Donna and Medavoy for a while.
Dana winds up coming on to Medavoy.
At least 15 crude and profane expressions fill dialogue.
Advertiser: Unilever
Violent movies persist
Prime-time movie selections continue to be heavy with violent content,
as evidenced by the examples below.
■ Black Rain (CBS, 3/27) The
parental advisory appeared on the
screen only after the first bloody violent
scene. Shootouts and explosions are the
regular fare as heroes Nick and Charlie
(cops) help expose a Japanese gang war
revolving around counterfeit American
currency. Profanity occurs often, about
85% of it by Nick, the hero.
Advertisers: Johnson & Johnson,
Warner-Lambert
■ Boyz N the Hood (CBS, 3/7)
The movie focuses on very politically
correct attitudes toward American history and society. (Thanksgiving “commemorates the unity between the North
Americans and the early English settlers,” a teacher tells her class.)
The story follows young black boys
growing up in a neighborhood wracked
with violence. Gunfire is common,
and one of the principal players is
gunned down in a very violent, bloody
scene complete with holes through his
body.
Advertiser: Warner-Lambert
■ The Lawnmower Man (NBC,
3/27) Explosions, one-on-one combat
and gunfire are minimal in this movie,
but some scenes are particularly graphic. The story follows Dr. Larry Angelo
and his experiments to make Job, a
mentally handicapped man, more intelligent. Predictably, he turns Job into a
monster and eventually has to blow up
his lab in order to destroy Job.
Advertiser: General Mills (Red
Lobster)
■ Raising Cain (Fox, 3/28) Murders and the transport of bodies are
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Disney release continues anti-Christian bigotry
American Family Association says the
decision by The Walt Disney Company to
release the film Priest is a clear case of antiChristian bigotry. AFA president Donald E.
Wildmon said the film would never have
gotten to the screening room had it depicted
Jewish rabbis or leaders from any other religion in a similar manner.
The world’s best known “family entertainment company” originally planned to
release the film on Good Friday, April 14,
but backed away when several organizations expressed offense. The film depicts
the lives of five priests – one involved in
Write: Chrm. Michael Eisner
Walt Disney Company
500 S. Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521
Or call:
818-560-1000.
a homosexual relationship, another having
sex with his female housekeeper, another a
drunk, the fourth an uncaring bishop and the
fifth a psychotic country priest. According
to The Advocate, a magazine for homosexuals, the movie includes “a depiction of gay
Disney…from Pinocchio to Priest
Recent AFA Journal reports concerning
the Walt Disney Company.
April, 1995
➤ Disney hires Lauren Lloyd, lesbian
film producer (Chicks in White Satan;
Story of Her Life), to make movies about
lesbians.
October, 1994
➤ Tom Shumacher, an open homosexual
and the executive producer of Disney’s The
Lion King, is featured in The Advocate, a
national magazine for homosexuals.
➤ By editing explicit scenes two movies - Color of Night and The Advocate
– made by Disney-owned companies avoid
NC-17 rating.
February, 1995
➤ Disney backs the production of Jefferson in Paris, a film that speculates that
Thomas Jefferson fathered children by a
13-year-old slave, a rumor that surfaced
during a political campaign and that historians dismiss.
January, 1995
➤ Disney purchases distribution rights
to Kids, a film that has been described as
“nihilistic pornography.” (See page 3.)
➤ Disney announces that a new television
cartoon will feature characters from The
Lion King that were described as “…the
first homosexual Disney characters ever to
come to the screen….”
➤ Disney subsidiary Touchstone Pictures
buys the film rights to a series of graphic
novels by Alan Moore about the notorious slasher in London known as Jack the
Ripper.
November/December, 1994
➤ Fifth Annual Gay and Lesbian Days at
Disney World in Orlando, Florida, scheduled for June 1-5, 1995. The event is billed
as “Share the Vision Weekend.”
➤ The Motion Picture Association of
America overturns the NC-17 rating of the
Disney/Miramax film Clerks.
September, 1994
➤ Disney appears in the top ten sponsors
of pro-homosexual television programs in
January 1-June, 30, 1994, AFA monitoring.
➤ Two actors who spoke for characters in
The Lion King claim their characters were
“…the first homosexual Disney characters
ever to come to the screen….”
August, 1994
➤ Disney’s Miramax participates in the
Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film and
Video festival. An uneditied Pulp Fiction,
which includes scenes with frontal nudity
wins an award at a major film festival.
Earlier, actor Bruce Willis described the
movie as a “f---fest.”
June, 1994
➤ Disney’s Magic Kingdom Park in
Orlando, Florida, welcomes the fourth
annual “gay and lesbian day.” The event
is promoted as “A Day of Magic, A Night
of Pleasure.”
March, 1994
➤ Disney takes out its first ad in a homosexual publication.
sex that by all accounts is one of the most
realistic ever filmed outside of the world of
pornography.”
“The decision to release the film is a
clear example of the anti-Christian bigotry
which pervades Hollywood,” said Donald
E. Wildmon, a United Methodist minister.
“Attacking Christians and Christianity is a
Hollywood fun thing. They revel in it. Can
anyone imagine Hollywood releasing a film
about five rabbis with the qualities of these
five priests on Yom Kippur?”
Disney spokesman Mark Gill said Good
Friday was originally selected as the official
Wildmon said Christians and other fairminded citizens who
oppose religious bigotry should boycott
Disney World and
Disneyland.
release date because, “It is the time of year
when news magazines focus on spirituality
and many, many more people are thinking
about it.”
Wildmon said Christians and other fairminded citizens who oppose religious bigotry
should boycott Disney World and Disneyland. “Disney is taking an ‘in-your-face’
attitude toward millions of Christians. The
hatred of Christians runs deep in Hollywood,
even at Disney,” he said.
Other pro-family groups calling for action
against Disney include the Catholic League,
American Life League (ALL) and Morality
in Media.
Robert Peters, president of Morality
in Media, said, “…this movie attacks the
Catholic Church’s teachings as the cause
of the [characters’] failings and attempts to
undermine the Church’s moral authority at
a time when the world needs all the moral
help it can possibly get.”
In a press release ALL asked families to
cancel subscriptions to The Disney Channel,
stay away from Disney theme parks and stop
buying Disney products.
Disney ran a full page ad for the movie
in the April 4 issue of The Advocate.
Disney’s Miramax company will soon
release another film, Exotica, in which a customer of a strip-tease club becomes obsessed
with a stripper who comes on stage dressed
as a Catholic school girl.
The Advocate, 4/4/95, 4/18/95; Family Issues Alert, 3/30/95
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Sources cited for “News of Interest” items
indicate source of basic information only.
AFA
AFA shows Washington leaders
how NEA uses our taxes
The American Family Association says
it will distribute excerpts from the film Sex
Is... to Congressmen and Senators. The film,
which features hardcore sodomy and anal sex,
used $4,000 of taxpayers’ money from the
National Endowment for the Arts.
“We want the members of Congress to see
for themselves how the National Endowment
for the Arts uses tax money,” said Donald E.
Wildmon, president of AFA. “The film contains the most gross hardcore, explicit scenes
of homosexual sex imaginable.”
Former staff writer Russell Smith of the
Dallas Morning News said the film was
designed for homosexuals. “Though it’s definitely not for everyone, the target audience
– gay men – is well-served,” Smith said. AFA
says the NEA has been using tax dollars to
fund hardcore homosexual films for years.
Congress is expected to vote on continued
funding of the NEA within a few weeks. “Currently, the NEA gets $167 million to use in
producing such films as Sex Is...” Wildmon
said. “We want to make sure the American
taxpayer knows how the NEA uses their tax
dollars.”
New Jersey AFA group
takes on another giant
American Family Association of Morris
County (New Jersey) has entered the arena
in another David-and-Goliath style conflict.
Since Don Wildmon took on the television
networks in 1977, fighting giants has been the
norm for AFA and its local affiliates.
AFA of Morris County is taking on advertisers in Sports Illustrated’s (SI) annual
swimsuit issue. In a bulletin released to major
Christian news sources, affiliate secretary
Susie Rickershauser announced availability
of the AFA group’s “SI Swimsuit Issue Action Packet.”
“Through the years, Sports Illustrated has
been making its swimsuit issue more and
more like softcore porn magazines – less
swimsuit and more skin,” said Buddy Smith,
associate director of AFA National, “It’s
about time someone called the magazine and
its advertisers to task. We are proud it’s an
AFA affiliate which took the challenge.”
Rickershauser and the local affiliate follow in the steps of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, physician Linnea Smith, who earlier
initiated a similar campaign. Dr. Smith has
also been active in bringing to light the child
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Recent studies on the family
From International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology…
➤ The institutions and philosophies that have risen from family dissolution – day care,
divorce, illegitimacy, female-headed households, overstressed personal autonomy,
emancipation and individualism, hedonism, consumerism and technology – are breeding “truncated beings…mired in social disorder. Only the family by “emphasiz[ing]
the values of honesty, respect, love and responsibility for others” can turn back the
tide of “unconscionable violence [that] floods our streets.”
From Pennsylvania State University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln…
➤ Marriages with “nontraditional gender-role attitudes” are more likely to end in
divorce than are marriages with more traditionally minded attitudes.
From the University of Nebraska-Lincoln…
➤ Adults who grew up in an intact family are likely to see their parents more often
and to feel close to their parents than are their peers who grew up with a divorced
parent.
porn and perversion in such “mainstream”
porn magazines as Playboy and Penthouse.
For more information or to receive the
Action Packet, send an SASE to: AFA of
Morris County, P. O. Box 690, Morristown,
NJ 07963-0690.
The Action Packet information may also
be accessed via E Mail:
[email protected].
COM
File Name: S195.TXT or S195.ZIP
To access the information on bulletin
board: download via BBS at 201-663-0933
(8, N, 1)
Sports Illustrated is owned by Time
Warner. (See related story, page 14.) Major
advertisers in the February, 1995, issue:
➤ AT&T (see p. 6)
➤ Blockbuster Entertainment, Chrm H.
Wayne Huizenga, 200 S. Andrews Ave.,
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301; 305-462-4139.
(Blockbuster advertised its SI swimsuit
video.)
➤ Ford (see p. 6)
➤ PepsiCo (see p. 7)
➤ Time Warner, Inc., CEO Gerald Levin, 75
Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10019,
212-484-8000, FAX 212-956-2847.
GOVERNMENT
Family Research Council offers
American history guide
Not content merely to criticize the ridiculous “National History Standards” on which
$2 million in taxpayer funds was wasted, the
Family Research Council (FRC) recently
released its own outline of American history
as an alternative to the “politically correct”
madness concocted by the people empowered to draft standards under Bill Clinton’s
Goals 2000.
Titled Let Freedom Ring, the 64-page
booklet produced by the FRC offers a 13chapter outline for a course on American history. The booklet also includes major documents of American history – the Declaration
of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
and his Second Inaugural Address, and the
list of U.S. Presidents.
Admitting that theirs is not the “authoritative view of American history,” FRC head
Gary Bauer states that it is “a concise but
comprehensive overview of the key events
and figures in American history,” adding that
it is a “good resource for parents, students,
teachers, locally elected school boards, and
business and labor leaders who really want
to help our young people….”
For a free copy of this booklet, call 1-800225-4008 (limit one per caller).
HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA
Obits show homosexuals die early
A new study based on obituaries in
newspapers for homosexuals finds that homosexual men and women have dramatically
shorter lifespans than do heterosexuals.
The study of over 6,700 death notices of
homosexuals found that for men, the median
age if AIDS was the cause was 39, compared
to age 42 in homosexual men who died of
non-AIDS illnesses. Only 1% die of old age,
according to the study.
For lesbians, for whom only 163 obituaries
were studied, the median age of death was
44. Twenty percent died of old age.
Obituaries in two conventional newspapers found the median age of married men
was 75 with 80% dying of old age. For marAFA JOURNAL • MAY, 1995
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ried women the median age was 71 with 60%
dying of old age.
The study was conducted by Paul Cameron of the Family Research Institute, Dr.
William Playfair and Stephen Wellum. It was
published last year in the Omega Journal of
Death and Dying.
Lambda Report on Homosexuality, 2-3/95
Stars, TV shows honored at
homosexual awards presentation
Honorees at the sixth annual GLAAD
(Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) Media Awards included lesbian singer
Melissa Etheridge, TV star Roseanne, actress
Lily Tomlin, the cast of NBC’s Friends,
writer Armisted Maupin (Tales of the City),
commedienne Sandra Bernhard, Candace
Gingrich (sister of Speaker of the House
Newt Gingrich) and IKEA furniture company
(which ran homosexual themed advertisements last spring). The awards celebrate
“outstanding portrayals of lesbians and gay
men on television and film, according to
Daily Variety.
Other TV shows that were honored include
Frasier and the NBC Nightly News.
New York Native, 3/6/95; Daily Variety, 3/6/95
Homosexual employees group
growing at Prudential Insurance
Prudential has officially sanctioned a new
chapter of its homosexual employees group
called EAGLES.
An EAGLES spokesperson said the
group’s mission is “to foster a work environment that is inclusive and supportive of
lesbian, gay and bisexual associates….”
The first Prudential EAGLES group was
formed in Minneapolis in March, 1993.
Discussions are under way to form additional
EAGLES chapters in Atlanta, Houston and
suburban Philadelphia, according to The
Prudential Leader, a company newspaper.
In addition Prudential is in the process
of forming a “Diversity Council” made up
of representatives from various employee
groups such as African-Americans, Hispanics, Euro-American males, handicapped individuals and others. Homosexual employees
are named as one of the groups of employees
represented on the council.
The Prudential Insurance Company,
Chrm. Arthur F. Ryan, 213 Washington Ave.,
Newark, NJ 07102, 800-458-8540, FAX
201-802-7486.
Magazine shows strong
feminist/lesbian connection
The 22nd Anniversary issue of Ms., the
leading feminist magazine, profiled 50
models of “feminism in practice,” The issue
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featured strong lesbian overtures, according
to Lambda Report on Homosexuality (LR).
Eight of those honored are explicitly lesbian or bisexual or imply such, LR said.
Lambda Report on Homosexuality, 2-3/95
In support of NEA,
CPB defunding
Bank uses Visa card to build
homosexual houses of worship
The Peoples Bank of Bridgeport, Connecticut, is promoting their Visa card by
making a donation to homosexual causes
every time the card is used. Causes listed in
an ad in a national magazine for homosexuals
include “building gay houses of worship.”
The ad in The Advocate says, “If just 250,000
people use the card regularly, we can donate
$1 million a year or more!”
Peoples Bank, 850 Main Street, Bridgeport, CT 06601, 800-426-1114.
No domestic
Cincinnati
coverage
in
Cincinnati’s city council has approved
a measure that excludes domestic partners
from eligibility for health care benefits.
Led by Charles Winburn, a black conservative Christian in his first term, the council
devised language which affirmed the traditional biblical nuclear family.
Christian American, 3/95
VP hosts party for homosexuals
Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, hosted a party at their home in March
for 150 homosexual activists.
“It’s a wonderful thing to do what you’re
doing, and that’s devoting your lives to
others,” Gore told officers and members of
the Human Rights Campaign Fund, a large
homosexual lobby.
“We very deeply share your vision of a
society that is fair and free of discrimination
for gay and lesbian people, and we want you
to know that,” Mrs. Gore added.
Washington Watch…
Cutting CPB (Corporation for Public
Broadcasting) and NEA (National
Endowment for the Arts) will save less
than half of one percent of the current
deficit, but the symbolic importance
of privatizing them would be immense.… Moreover, federal government involvement in art, television
and radio is a questionable proposition.
Such involvement smacks of official
speech. If freedom of speech is dear
to Americans, then nothing should be
more alien than the notion of government intervention.
Summarizing social analyst Michael
Schwartz
When the government uses tax money
to promote particular views, it interferes in the free speech market, just as
it would skew the market in religious
speech by sponsoring a particular
church.
Washington Watch, 2/21/95
Media Analyst Steve Kaminski:
…the media and Hollywood defenders of artistic welfare aren’t answering the most basic questions. Is their
commercial work really so bad that
a government-funded alternative is
needed?… And if PBS and NEA are
so popular and cost so little, why must
the government coerce people into
supporting them?
MediaNomics, 2/95
Associated Press, 3/4/95
Rolling Stone founder sells family
magazine, leaves wife for a man
The founder of Rolling Stone magazine
and president of Wenner Media has left his
wife for a man.
Newsweek magazine reported that Jann
Wenner, “the self appointed poster boy for
evolving social mores,” is now dating Calvin
Klein designer Matt Nye.
For weeks gossip columnists discussed
Wenners affair in oblique terms, Newsweek
said. Then the Wall Street Journal published a
front-page article on the impact of Wenner’s
marital strife on his magazine empire and
mentioned his homosexual relationship.
Wenner recently sold another of its pub-
lications entitled Family Life. However a
company spokesman has said Rolling Stone
is not for sale.
Newsweek, 3/20/95; Advertising Age, 3/13/95
PORNOGRAPHY
Toolmaker drops girlie calendar
Snap-on, the well-known tool maker, has
ended a 12-year tradition of distributing calendars showing female models displaying the
company’s products. Snap-On spokesman
David Heide said the practice was stopped
because it “is not the image we want to be
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NEWS OF INTEREST
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MEDIA
■ Newt-Bashing TV Reporters Spend February Ignoring Democratic Scandals
Nap time for network news
The networks devoted 27 stories to Newt Gingrich’s book deal in the six weeks ending February 1, compared to only three on ethics charges against Commerce Secretary
Ron Brown. February brought fewer Gingrich stories, but Democratic scandals were
barely touched. Except for Brown, no Democratic ethics issue got more than one story
on any one of the four evening news shows.
➤ Ethical questions about Gingrich’s “Newt Inc.” conglomerate of political enterprises
generated five stories, two from NBC’s Lisa Myers. On February 23 and 24, ABC’s
John Martin filed lengthy reports totaling over six minutes, and on February 23
CBS’s Bob Schieffer focused on a college course taught by Gingrich getting free
time on a cable channel.
➤ All four covered the Justice Department’s February 16 opening of an investigation
into Brown’s finances. Dan Rather sounded almost regretful: “New legal trouble
tonight for a widely respected member of President Clinton’s cabinet.” But curiosity quickly ebbed. NBC followed up with two stories, CBS and CNN World News
with a story each.
➤ Only CBS reported on the new Bill Clinton biography by Washington Post writer
David Maraniss, which confirmed what The American Spectator revealed about
women and state troopers over a year ago. The release of the list of contributors
to Clinton’s legal defense fund was noted briefly by NBC (CBS’s Bill Plante also
mentioned it in his Maraniss story.) Only CBS updated the case against Agriculture
Secretary Mike Espy on February 12.
➤ Despite a 60 Minutes story to which Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle issued
a 31-page denial on February 17, the networks continue to ignore more allegations
that he intervened with federal airline regulators on behalf of a friend’s company
that suffered a deadly crash last year.
➤ At month’s end, a grand jury indicted Neil Ainley, former President of an Arkansas
bank, for concealing 1990 Clinton gubernatorial campaign withdrawals. CNN aired
a Wolf Blitzer piece on February 28, but no other network noted the Whitewater
development.
➤ CBS, CNN, and NBC did highlight Reagan Interior Secretary James Watt being
charged with perjury and obstruction of justice February 22. That same day, a grand
jury indicted former Rep. Mary Rose Oakar (D-Ohio) for check-kiting at the House
Bank. Only CNN ran a brief anchor-read story.
MediaWatch, 3/95
associated with in the future.” He said that
the calendar “perpetuated the stereotype that
mechanics are uneducated.”
Citizens’ Courier, Winter/1995
City closes down porn shops
Two stores in East St. Louis, Illinois, that
allegedly sold pornography were recently
shut down by city officials.
Mayor Gordon Bush accompanied police
and city officials to the two businesses before
ordering them closed. Bush has vowed to
crack down on prostitution, topless dancing
and pornography in East St. Louis.
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Bush moved quickly to close the stores,
which are prohibited under a city ordinance.
He said police had found “lewd, lascivious
and obscene materials” inside the stores.
Police said the businesses contained hundreds
of sexually explicit videos and magazines, as
well as sex toys.
Church USA was sent a letter urging members to resist provisions of the GOP Contract
With America that the denomination said
would harm the poor. Moderator Robert
Bohl of the General Assembly also called on
church members to pray for Congress.
National & International Religion Report, 3/6/95
TV/HOLLYWOOD
TV kids lack spiritual dimension
Most children portrayed on television
have no apparent religion or family ties and
only a passing interest in school or the world
they live in.
That’s the conclusion of a new study of
how television depicts children, released in
February by Children Now, an advocacy
group in California. The study analyzed 80
programs ranging from Sesame Street to
Roseanne to Superhuman Samurai Squad
to determine the goals, motivations and behaviors of children on the shows.
It found that for 70% of the children seen
on television it was impossible to tell what
kind of family structure they live in. In cases
where a family structure was discernible,
11% were depicted as orphans, 26% lived
with single parents, and 60% lived with both
biological parents.
Most of the children portrayed on commercial shows engaged in “anti-social activities” such as lying, verbal abuse, hitting or
neglecting their responsibilities, the survey
found.
Other findings: boys were 60% more
likely to be shown using physical aggression.
In many of those cases the aggression was
effective in getting what they wanted.
Our Sunday Visitor, 3/19/95
Movie linked to killing
A 15-year-old who prosecutors say once
wrote that he wanted to live the story of the
movie Natural Born Killers was charged
in March with the shotgun killing of his
parents.
Investigators found letters the boy exchanged with three other juveniles in which
they discuss the Oliver Stone movie about a
couple that goes on a killing spree.
The parents were killed as they watched
television in their suburban Atlanta, Georgia,
mobile home.
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) 3/7/95
The United Press International, 3/15/95
CBS orders new episodes of Christy
RELIGION
PCUSA asked to r esist GOP
Contract
Every congregation of the Presbyterian
CBS has ordered a new batch of episodes
of Christy, a television series based on the
life of the mother of the late Christian writer
Catherine Marshall. The show’s Hollywood
producer, Ken Wales, an evangelical, said
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high ratings accounted for the network’s
move. The initial eight-episode series and
a Thanksgiving special garnered “Super
Bowl numbers” in parts of the Midwest,
Wales said.
National and International Religion Report, 3/6/95
Producer makes wholesome films
An independent Christian movie producer
is trying to demonstrate to Hollywood that
people want to see more wholesome movies.
Sybil Robson left Universal Studios and
formed her own production company, Robson Entertainment, to make films that reflect
positive values. Originally from Oklahoma,
Robson said parents are dissatisfied with
movies. “When I go home and they find out
I’m a producer, they come out with their
rolling pins,” she said.
Her company’s first production, Gordy,
is about a pig who keeps his vow to save his
family from the sausage factory. The movie
is scheduled to open on May 12.
National and International Religion Report, 3/6/95
Stone planning Larry Flynt film
Filmmaker Oliver Stone has plans to produce The People vs. Larry Flynt, a movie
based on the life of Hustler porn magazine
publisher Larry Flynt. Bill Murray is slated
to play Flynt.
According to Time magazine, in the movie
Flynt has a religious conversion aboard his
private jet. A bolt of lightning strikes the
plane and Jesus appears. He is soon joined
by comic Lenny Bruce.
Time, 4/3/95
Homosexuals at the Oscars
A national magazine for homosexuals has
revealed that homosexuals were well represented at the recent Academy Awards.
The Advocate named five movies that were
nominated in various categories as having
homosexual content: Four Weddings and
a Funeral, Heavenly Creatures, Interview
With the Vampire, Red and Strawberry
and Chocolate.
Homosexual nominees named by the
magazine were Nigel Hawthorne, Best Actor for The Madness of King George; Tim
Chapel, Best Costume for The Adventures
of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Deborah
Hoffman, Dee Mosbacher and Frances Reid,
Please send us copies of replies you receive
from advertisers and others. Also send news
clippings on family issues. Please include
your name and the date of the publication
from which the clipping came.
AFA JOURNAL • MAY, 1995
The following items include additional information on past news articles, corrections/
clarifications, letters from readers, responses
from advertisers and other items of interest
that relate to AFA Journal stories.
■ Response from Disney – After reading in the March, 1995, AFA Journal that a
new Disney television cartoon will feature
characters from The Lion King that were
described by their voice actors as the “first
homosexual Disney characters ever to come
to the screen,” a reader in Texas wrote Disney
to express his concern. Laurel Whitcomb,
Director of Publicity at Buena Vista, a Disney subsidiary, replied that “the allegations
made by [the AFA Journal were] false and
without merit.” Whitcomb explained that the
comments of Nathan Lane in a June, 1994,
interview in the New York Times were “flippant, tongue-in-cheek remarks.”
The Journal reader wrote back to Disney:
“It seems to us that the irritation of Buena
Vista Television should be directed toward
Variety, the New York Times and Nathan
Lane rather than the AFA Journal. These were
the sources for the news article and the AFA
Journal merely reported what these sources
made available. As a matter of fact, one of
these Lion King character voice talent actors
appeared on the Jay Leno Show and reiterated that the characters will be portrayed as
‘gay’ on the cartoon TV show.”
For additional background see page 9.
■ Kmart’s Waldenbooks – Rev. Richard R.
Davis of Janesville, Wisconsin, sent AFA a
photo of his local Waldenbooks store that
shows several sex books displayed alongside
the “Kids Favorites” section. The photo
shows Kama Sutra, a fully illustrated book
about sex “positions,” Playboy’s Forty Years,
Pocket Sex, Loving Sex, and Real Moments
Between Lovers, next to children’s books
entitled Goosebumps and Red Ranger Game
Calling.
■ Support for school prayer – A school
system in Mississippi has received over
40,000 letters expressing support of its stand
in a school prayer lawsuit. The letters came
in response to a mailing by the American
Family Association requesting supporters to
send letters of support to the North Pontotoc
School System.
The suit was brought against the school
system by an individual, the American Civil
Liberties Union and People for the American
Way. The school system allowed student-led,
student-initiated prayer and offered a course
on the Bible as history.
Leading the states in support letters were:
California, 2949; Florida, 2335; Texas, 2256;
Ohio, 2029; and Pennsylvania; 2063. Letters
came in from as far as Haiti and Japan.
■ Correction – In a story in the April, 1995,
AFA Journal on page 4, Carolyn McKenzie
is identified as a former topless dancer who
is now ministering to young women who
want to get out of the “adult” entertainment
business. Mrs. McKenzie never worked as a
topless dancer.
Department of the Treasury Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Wanted by ATF
Suspected serial bomber
Wanted for mailing explosive
devices from Mobile, AL, and
McComb, MS. Seen driving
red, compact car, 4-door with
Louisiana tag. Protruding lower
jaw and bulging eyes. Softspoken.
Contact: ATF, Jackson, MS at 601-965-4205
or 24-hour National Command Center at
Call 1-800-ATF-GUNS
Description
• White
• Male
• 5'8"-5'10" • 165-175 lbs
• Light brown or dark blond
hair cut short in front with
ponytail.
• Blue, green or hazel eyes.
• ATF case 13145-94-0041 C
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Time Warner – the leading cultural polluter
W
hich corporation is doing the most
to lower standards and further degrade what’s left of American culture? When this question came up
at a New York dinner party last summer, there
was a vote or two for Viacom and Paramount,
a lot of talk about Madonna and strong support for Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Network, with
its lineup of increasingly moronic sitcoms for
the cognitively challenged.
After a half hour of good-natured wrangling, we had a consensus winner: Time
Warner. Here’s how to reach this rather obvious conclusion on your own: Whenever a
new low is reached in the culture, check for
the corporate name behind it. With amazing
frequency it will be Time Warner.
The schlocky Jenny Jones Show, the
first show on which a guest who was humiliated later was charged with murdering his
humiliator, is a Time Warner product. The
most degrading commercial picture book
about human sexuality may be Madonna’s
$49.95 porn book, which, I am told, pic-
By JOHN LEO
Used by permission
torially indicates that she is game to have
sex with everything but babies and folding
chairs. It was published by Time Warner, and
(surprise!) chosen as an alternate selection
by Time Warner’s once respectable Book of
the Month Club.
In the movies, the all-time low for cynicism and historical lies (Oliver Stone’s JFK)
and for graphic, wholesale serial killing presented as fun (Oliver Stone’s Natural Born
Killers) were both produced by Warner. In
the category of movie nihilism for children,
my vote goes to Warner’s Batman Returns,
a dark and sadomasochistic film pushed hard
to kids through a tie-in with McDonald’s.
JUST GARBAGE
But it’s in the music field that Time Warner
does most of its damage. C. DeLores Tucker,
chair of the National Political Congress of
Are you as committed to family
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homosexuals are to leftist agendas?
Nearly every group of radical left-wingers in America is being encouraged to switch
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who give a percentage of their phone bills to
causes such as the National Gay and Lesbian
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and the Lambda Legal Defense and Education
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They are pooling their financial resources to promote their anti-family, anti-God
causes. Well-known left-wing personalities
such as Gloria Steinem, Ben Cohen (Ben and
Jerry’s), Pamela J. Maraldo (Planned Parenthood of America), and others are lending
their names to solicitation letters for such
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Black Women, says Time Warner is “one
of the greatest perpetrators of this cultural
garbage.” She may be understating the case.
From the rise of 2 Live Crew and Metallica,
through the national uproar over Ice-T’s
cop-killing lyrics, down to Snoop Doggy
Dogg, Nine Inch Nails and Tupac Shakur,
the sprawling Time Warner musical empire
has been associated one way or another with
most of the high-profile, high-profit acts,
black and white, that are pumping nihilism
into the culture.
Like a junkie quivering toward a fix, Time
Warner simply can’t resist cashing in on the
amoral singers who work tirelessly to tear the
culture apart, glorifying brutality, violence
and the most hateful attitudes toward women
the public culture has ever seen, ranging from
rape to torture and murder.
After the Ice-T fiasco, Time Warner pulled
in its horns a bit and turned down a few recordings, including one about a killer stalking
President Bush. But those feeble PR-oriented
efforts were in areas where the pressure was
coming from: police and public officials. The
company did nothing about the woman-hating, racism and all-round mayhem.
In fact, Time Warner companies have
worked notably to lower the already low
standards in the field. When BMG and Sony
balked at signing the loathsome Dr. Dre, a
Time Warner affiliated company, Interscope,
was there to sign him. When David Geffen, to
his credit, refused to sign the out-of-control
Geto Boys (who sing lyrically about slitting women’s throats and cutting off their
breasts), a Time Warner label picked them
up. It helps to have a fat checkbook and no
standards.
Last week Time Warner bought another
chunk of Interscope, the hottest record company around, and now owns 50%. This is the
cultural equivalent of owning half the world’s
mustard-gas factories. One Interscope talent,
Nine Inch Nails, sings about self-loathing,
sexual obsession, torture, suicide and dismemberment. Another huge seller, Dr. Dre,
is author of the immortal line: “Rat-a-tat and
a tat like that / Never hesitate to put a nigga
on his back,” which author Nathan McCall
says is “Plain and simple…a boastful call
for black men to kill each other.”
Time Warner puts out a lot of benign
or harmless music, too. But it makes huge
profits by bombarding the young with destructive messages.
Be sure to tell the operator you want AFA to get the credit.
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■ An open letter to the queen of liberalism
Dear Barbra,
By ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Writer and head of Center for Creative Compassion
Why do you insist on
characterizing conservatives’ wish to curtail
Recently I found myself channel-surfing, and there you were, lecturing at Harvard.
At first, I’ll admit, I kept flipping the
dial, but finally returned, intrigued by what
seemed to be one of your more unusual
performances.
You and I have talked at friends’ houses
over the years – of life, and men and children
– never (happily for both of us) of politics.
But there was none of your warmth, intelligence and spontaneity in the speech in progress. What there was, instead, was a strained
outrage, and it wasn’t clear at what.
Your insistence that the modern artist
was a member of a persecuted minority was
so bizarre that even you must have been a
little uncomfortable having to go back to
the 16th century to trundle out the painting
of loincloths on figures in Michelangelo’s
Sistine Chapel as an example of artistic
persecution. In fact, throughout the whole
performance, Barbra, you were, as you said
yourself several times, really nervous – a
sentiment you punctuated alternately by
gulping water and tossing your hair. Surely
you were not nervous because you were
pontificating before a few hundred awestruck Harvard students who would have
adored you even if you had simply stood
there blowing bubbles. No, I’d wager that
your nervousness stemmed more from the
fact that even you must have known, deep
somewhere in your artistic conscience, that
your remarks bore little relevance to the real
problems and real solutions of today.
“The persistent drumbeat of cynicism
on the talk shows and in the new Congress
reeks of disrespect for the arts and artists,”
you sighed. “The presumption is that people
in my profession are too insulated, too
free-thinking, too subversive.” One can
almost hear the question: “Are you now or
have you ever been a member of the Screen
Actors Guild?”
Barbra, how could anyone hear anything
over the din of such high-pitched melodrama?
Why do you insist on characterizing conservatives’ wish to curtail taxpayer subsidies
for the arts as motivated by “disrespect” for
art and artists? Is your wish to cut the
defense budget motivated by “disrespect” for
our military and its servicemen?
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taxpayer subsidies for
the arts as motivated
by “disrespect” for
art and artists? Is
your wish to cut the
defense budget motivated by “disrespect”
for our military and its
servicemen?
Indeed, as an author who has spent
much of her professional career writing about
the arts, I am driven by a deep and abiding
love of the arts, which have been cheapened,
politicized and degraded by being placed
under government authority. Unlike the
former Soviet Union or Cuba, we neither
have nor need ministries of culture and
departments of art. We have something
better than government handouts for the arts
– we have freedom. And the arts don’t need
multi-part application forms and government
grants to flourish.
The artist is “too free-thinking?” Come,
come. The problem is that artists aren’t
thinking freely enough. Where’s the freedom
of thought in an artistic community that is
uniformly liberal, solidly Democratic and
victions, can do almost anything: stop wars,
end injustices – and even defeat entrenched
powers.” You have been supporting the
entrenched powers, the status quo, all your
life. And now that, for the first time, there is
a real chance of transferring power out of
Washington and back to the communities and
the people, you are balking, continuing to
defend a government-centered world that’s
passing away.
“Art,” you said, “can illuminate, enlighten, inspire. It becomes heat in cold places; it
becomes light in dark places.” You are right.
But because of this power, art is equally
capable of introducing cold in warm places,
and bringing darkness where there is
light. In some of the more controversial
cases of NEA subsidization of the arts, it
has done just that. As a culture we need
to come to grips with that reality instead
of giving the Robert Mapplethorpes of the
world government grants and one-man shows
at the Whitney.
Forty-five years ago, George Orwell
wrote an essay on Salvador Dali: “Just pronounce the magic word ‘art,’ and everything
is OK. So long as you can paint well enough
to pass the test, all shall be forgiven you.”
Orwell believed we should have a higher
standard: “The first thing that we demand of
a wall is that it should stand up. If it stands
up, it is a good wall, and the question of
what purpose it serves is separable from
that. And yet even the best wall in the world
deserves to be pulled down if it surrounds a
concentration camp.”
Orwell’s point needs to be made again
and again. Photographs, films, novels or
paintings extolling violence, degradation
and evil, no matter how brilliantly executed
or technically flawless, cannot be made good
simply by being called “art.”
On what authority would any government body – whether run by Democrats or
We have something better than government
handouts for the arts – we have freedom.
boldly on the cutting edge of 20 years ago?
How many conservatives have you run across
in Hollywood lately? How much tolerance
is there for those who dare diverge from
the politically current line? And finally,
what is so “subversive” about seeking
salvation through government subsidy?
Dogmatically supporting the Democratic
Party line does not make you a subversive;
it makes you a shill.
“I believe,” you breathlessly continued,
“that people from any walk of life, artists
included, when they stand up for their con-
Republicans – declare what is art and what is
not and then officially endorse that decision
with our tax dollars? And if, as we keep hearing, the NEA budget of about $167 million
represents a mere pittance when placed in
the context of our federal budget, wouldn’t
it be relatively easy – and less wearing on
the social fabric – to raise that money from
the private sector? Now that would be a
revolution. And you, Barbra – with your wit,
wisdom and box-office appeal – would be the
perfect person to launch it.
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S C H O O L
P R A Y E R
Graduation prayer…against the law?
BY SCOTT THOMAS
AFA Law Center General Counsel
Public schools across the nation have
been recipients of communications from
groups opposed to religious expression.
These people claim, either by implication, or,
sometimes, by direct statement, that the 1992
United States Supreme Court decision of Lee
v. Weisman, taken with the older cases banning government-sponsored prayer, has the
effect of banning all forms of prayer, public
or private, at school sponsored activities.
IS THIS REALLY WHAT THE LAW SAYS
ABOUT SCHOOL PRAYER?
The basis for prohibiting prayer has
always been the so-called “separation of
church and state” (which cannot be found
in our Constitution). The
claim is that requiring, or
even allowing, a prayer is
tantamount to endorsement
of a religious activity. This
is said to violate the Establishment Clause of the First
Amendment to the Constitution.
But the First Amendment
provides for other rights, as well. These
include the right of individuals to peaceably
assemble and the right of individuals to be
free from laws abridging speech (Tinker v.
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One form of analysis used by the Supreme Court decides whether or not speech
(or assembly) rights are being asserted in a
“public forum.” If so, then the rights may
not be restricted unless there is a compelling
governmental interest at stake, and no less
drastic alternatives are available. (See United
States v. Grace, 461 U.S. 171 (1983), where a
sidewalk was found to be a public forum.) The
protection given to First Amendment rights,
in the context of a public forum, has been clear
since the 1930’s. Hague v. CIO, 307 U.S. 496
(1939) found a sidewalk, a street, and a park
each to constitute a public forum.
Since school grounds are historically and
properly considered a classic example of a
public forum, there is no legitimate basis to
justify prohibiting peaceful assembly for any
legitimate purpose, including prayer, so long
as the ability of the administration to protect
the educational process and
the safety of the students and
faculty is preserved.
This analysis was not
changed by the Lee v. Weisman decision. That case dealt
specifically with a non-sectarian prayer at public school
commencement exercises.
The court noted there that the
school officials directed the “performance” of
a “formal religious exercise,” and expressed
concern at what it called “protecting freedom
of conscience from subtle coercive pressure.”
The decision is grounded in the “supervision
and control” of the activities by the school
district. In a school setting, said the court,
this required, in effect, participation in a
religious exercise.
Though the concern engendered by the
Lee decision is justifiable, it by no means
warrants the conclusion that school prayer
is always improper. The first question to be
resolved is to whom is the prayer attributable? Put another way, “Who is speaking?”
If the prayer may be said to be the speech of
the school administration, then it should be
examined to see if it violates the Establishment Clause, and should be prohibited. On
the other hand, if the prayer is the private
speech of a student, or other individual (but
not the “speech” of the school district), it
is individual free speech, and should be
protected (Westside Community Schools v.
Mergens, 496 U.S. 226 (1990)).
If the prayer is attributable to the school,
it is improper only if it violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Part of
this inquiry requires a determination of the
degree of supervision and control exercised
by the school over the prayer.
It seems clear from the Lee opinion that
the factors which would be considered “supervision and control” by a school district are
much broader than that reason alone would
suggest. However, if circumstances exist
where such direction, supervision or control
by the district are not present, prayer would
remain appropriate. An example would be
where the prayer is not a scheduled part of a
ceremony, and/or is conducted by students,
rather than an adult invited or endorsed by
the administration.
In fact, this type of prayer was upheld in
the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the
1992 case of Jones v. Clear Creek Ind. Sch.
Dist., 977 F.2d 963 (1992). The Court of
Appeals found that a school’s policy to allow
student prayer did not violate any of the tests
the United States Supreme Court has used
to determine whether school involvement in
religion violates the Establishment Clause.
While a school outside the Fifth Circuit is
not required to follow the Clear Creek decision, it is certainly persuasive authority for
permitting prayer under such circumstances.
Some courts since the Clear Creek case have
agreed with that decision, while others have
found prayer objectionable.
Another alternative available to the school
district regarding the graduation prayer is to
include in the program a statement that participation in any prayer is voluntary and persons desiring not to participate are requested
to show respect for participants.
Although groups opposed to school prayer
often refer to such methods as “schemes to
skirt the law,” these and other suggestions are
simply exercising First Amendment rights to
free speech and free exercise of religion.
In addition a complete ban on school
prayer would be unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has held that the First Amendment requires neutrality toward religion, not
hostility. Thus, in Widmar v. Vincent, 454
U.S. 263 (1981), the Supreme Court stated
that a ban on religious activities violates the
Establishment Clause. This was confirmed in
Westside Comm. Schools v. Mergens, disapproving action which “would demonstrate
not neutrality but hostility toward religion.”
That court also noted the significant difference between government speech endorsing
religion, which the establishment clause
forbids, and private speech endorsing religion, which the free speech and free exercise
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P R O - L I F E
Choosing life…a story of restoraby JACQUELINE JAGGER
Written for AFA Journal
t was early April in the deep South, when
the wondrous sound of a newborn baby’s
cry pierced the silence of a sterile delivery
room. There, a beautiful 17-year-old girl lay
asleep on the delivery table unaware of her
child’s birth, waking only to realize that she
would never see the child she had delivered
and decided to give up for adoption.
Due to circumstances of family illness, the
mother’s age, and the inability to provide for
her child, this young woman chose life for
her child by choosing adoption.
I am that child!
I was adopted at the age of three months,
and spent my childhood knowing this fact, and
being assured that I was a special gift from
God. From time to time someone would curiously ask, “Do you know your ‘real’ mother?”
To this questioning my reply would always
be “No! she didn’t want me, why should I
want to know her?” This remained my attitude throughout childhood and adolescence,
although my parents always assured me that
my birth mother was a good person and that
she loved me despite her decision. As adults
know, rejection of any type is difficult for a
child to accept.
As I matured, married and became pregnant with my first child, I began to contemplate the feelings of my birth mother during
her pregnancy and delivery in 1960.
After delivering my first child, a little girl,
also on an early April morning in the deep
South, I praised God and thanked Him for
this wondrous creation that He had given my
husband and me. I also realized something
that day that changed my attitude toward my
birth mother – she had loved me, and I was
absolutely certain that she still did, wherever
she was and whatever she had become. I
understood that for a woman to carry a child
and nurture it with her own body for nine
months and then be willing to allow someone
else to love and raise that child was, I feel, an
unselfish and totally loving act, particularly in
her circumstances! Abortion, although illegal
in 1960, would have been available if she had
so chosen, but she chose life! Realizing this,
I asked God for the opportunity to thank my
birth mother for her choice, and to assure her
of my wonderful parents and the life that they
had given me.
I really didn’t expect to receive this opportunity, but because of the necessity of
I
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a family medical history during my third
pregnancy, and through two very diligent
social workers, I was given the opportunity
for my prayer to be answered!
In August of 1985 I spoke, for the first
time, with my birth mother and received the
necessary medical information. I also took
this opportunity to thank her for her choice.
In meeting my birth mother face-to-face
shortly thereafter, I was able to show her
how I had grown up and how my life had
turned out. This filled a great void in each
of our lives!
My birth mother and I maintain periodic
contact. We both feel comfortable with the
relationship we share, and there is respect for
If these words
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the role we play in each other’s life.
I am thankful for my birth mother and her
decision to choose life, because in so doing,
she allowed me to have the most wonderful
family a child could ever have, and a wonderful childhood that was full of events and
memories I will forever cherish.
I feel that I was a gift of love to a man and
a woman whom God had chosen to bless with
a special child. I am eternally grateful to Him
for this. I am also thankful for the decision,
though excruciating it must have been, that
my birth mother made in choosing life for
me – her child – through adoption.
Through my experience I have come to
believe that choosing life is the only choice!
Because of that choice I am able to relate my
story, to express my gratitude, and to be alive
to say, “Thank you, for choosing life!”
The Aletheia Covenant
I AM COMMITTED TO LEARNING AND LIVING THE TRUTH ABOUT FAITH.
I am trusting fully in the Gospel of Jesus Christ as revealed in the Holy Bible
for my salvation. I pledge to keep God as the first love in my life through the
power of the Holy Spirit and the fellowship of His Church. I accept God’s call
to join Him in loving service to our fellow humans.
I AM COMMITTED TO LEARNING AND LIVING THE TRUTH ABOUT FAMILY.
As a practicing Christian it is my intent to fulfill the Biblical design for
family relationships. From this day forward, I am devoted to honoring my
father and mother in the Lord, practicing personal holiness and sexual
abstinence until marriage. I will show respect for every human being as
a unique creature of God, with special commitment to defend the most
defenseless – the unborn. My goal is to adhere to the ten commandments
and provide a witness to my faith by living the teachings of Jesus Christ.
I AM COMMITTED TO LEARNING AND LIVING THE TRUTH ABOUT
FREEDOM.
To those living and dead who have sacrificed and paid such an enormous
price for the freedoms I enjoy, I say, “Thank you.” It is important that I
know the facts regarding God’s influence and the influence of Christians
which resulted in the creation of the United States of America. I deserve to
know what our founders taught, how they lived and the Christian principles
upon which America was founded. My commitment to America is to
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O U T R E A C H
Why some men love sex more
than they love their wives
■ Because of pornography his wife is no match for his fantasy world.
By DOUGLAS WEISS
Executive Director, Heart to Heart Counseling Ctrs.
The age old debate about men wanting
sex more than they want their wives may be
old, but as of recently, we may now have a
new answer to this dilemma. Many men, especially in our American culture, are sexually
developed in a sinful, and to some extent, an
abusive manner.
The sexual development of the American
man begins all too often with friends and
family members exposing him to pornographic material that is harmful and toxic.
School teachers tell me this is common for
4th through 6th grade students today. This
young boy, in his mind, takes these vivid
pictures home and creates a fantasy world
with this inappropriate material, and the
trouble begins.
The trouble starts as he begins to connect
his precious God-given sexuality to a world
of deception (James 1:14). His mind goes to
a place where women are objects, they have
no feelings and the more he goes there and
acts out sexually, the less able he is to be
happy with a future mate. Research shows
us in a college study where both men and
women were exposed to pornography for
one hour a week for six weeks, their level of
sexual satisfaction with their partner drops
very significantly. Remember, this was just
a six-week study. You can just imagine that
when someone exposes himself to fantasies
or magazines and videos, how the enemy
can create dissatisfaction in his sexual life
with his mate.
This is why so many women come to my
office crying about not being able “to be
enough” for their husbands. They weep about
the emptiness of their sexual experience and
the depression some experience because of
their many efforts to make a husband happy
without success. The problem is not with the
wife of the man who has become sexually
compulsive, but rather with this unreal world
of his. This fantasy world is often times his
primary relationship, much like alcohol is
to the alcoholic. The deception and pain in
his life that caused him to medicate through
false sex would have been there regardless
of who he married, no matter what she looks
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like. Nothing she could have done could make
him happy inside.
He’s not happy, because he opened a door
to his spiritual and emotional life and even
altered the way his brain made itself content.
Only God and receiving His care can heal his
whole person, including his sexuality. Just
so I’m understood, I will repeat it – what
he brought into the marriage made him not
able to engage in or benefit from healthy
relational sex. This had nothing to do with
his wife. Having said this, while working
with sexually compulsive men and their
wives, I have observed many similarities
between sex addicts and their partners. The
list of characteristics I am about to share is
from my book Women Who Love Sex Addicts,
Help For Healing From a Sexually Addictive
Relationship.
Many wives of sexually compulsive men
come from families that were emotionally
restrictive and sex was not talked about in
open and healthy ways. They learned rules
of not listening to the Spirit within (truth)
but believed what they were told. If they
questioned a parent, often they would receive
anger or abandonment as a response. Other
characteristics seem to be low self esteem,
thinking in black and white extremes, being
victims of sexual neglect or sexual abuse,
problems with boundaries, and often a desire
for a picture-perfect family that leads them
to minimize or rationalize their husbands’
behavior.
Many of these women are godly, Christian
women who love the Lord and have spent
hours in prayer for their husbands. However,
a husband has to come to a point where he
wants help to heal himself, spirit, soul and
body (I Thes. 5:23).
“What can I do?” I have heard this countless times in my practice at Heart to Heart
Counseling Centers in Fort Worth, Texas, as
well as when I lecture across the country. The
pain and shame with this issue is overwhelming and few know what to do to help heal
the sexual compulsive male along with his
marriage and family. AFA OutReach is in the
forefront with help for sexual addicts.
The first thing you can do is get informed.
There are several good books you can read
on sexual addiction. A good Christian book
is The Secret Sin, by Mark Laaser. The next
thing you can do is get support through Overcomers Outreach or a local support group.
The church as a whole has not been current on
having groups of this kind for Christians but
some community groups are COSA (co-sex
addicts anonymous) and S-Anon.
The next step is to arrange an appeal to
your husband to get help. If he accepts, he
can call a support group or go to a four-day
workshop for sexual compulsivity sponsored
by OutReach, a division of American Family Association. If he refuses, this is where
it gets more difficult. We must realize many
sexually compulsive people are much like the
drunkard in Proverbs 23:30-35. They may not
be totally aware of the damage they are doing
while they are in their sexually medicated
state. They may need encouragement from
a spiritual leader or authority such as a cell
group leader or the pastor of a church as well
as possibly someone who has been through
similar sexual compulsions.
In working with addicts of various types,
my experience is that there may need to be
firm boundaries from the wife to create a
situation for the husband to seek help. There
is professional Christian care available. Here
I would caution you to make very sure the
professional has specialized training and
a minimum of two years’ experience with
sexual compulsivity and a record of success.
At Heart to Heart Counseling Centers, over
90% get through the healing process. We offer
telephone counseling to help people throughout the country. Treatment weekends are
available through AFA OutReach. Although
it may appear bleak now, I have personally
been in recovery for almost eight years with
no slips and have received back from my Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ His precious gift of
life and life more abundantly in my intimate
relationship with my wife.
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In March, I planned to go on vacation.
I had my dates for the event set and I
thought I was ready to go. The only thing
getting in the way with my having fun
was me. You see I didn’t want to leave
work, my family, and the routines I had
on a daily basis. It seemed that all I could
think about the whole week before the
trip was what I was going to miss, what
I had to do in advance and what wasn’t
going to get done while I was away.
This insane and self-centered thinking led me to remember what my sponsor told me one day about a situation
that I thought surrounded just me. He
said, “Neal, you’re not that important
and everything will work out in God’s
time.” Boy, did that put me back in my
place and into reality. I thought the only
way anything would get done was if I
did it.
So many times in my recovery I think
the world is surrounded by just me and
my actions. Sometimes it takes telling
someone about my anxiety or frustration
to be able to look at myself from a different perspective, one that looks from
the outside-in instead of the inside-out.
I was so preoccupied with what was
to come or what had happened the day
or week before that I couldn’t stay in
the present. Closeness with God is part
of staying in the present because I can’t
be with Him fully if I am in the past or
future. Dwelling in the past or projecting into the future will get me in trouble
every time. I usually learn the hard way
about living the life God has intended for
me to live, but it sure sticks in the end.
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H O M O S E X U A L
A G E N D A
Homosexual studies beat budget cuts
M
uch has been reported about the homosexual rights movement in 1994,
a year celebrated by homosexuals as
the twenty-fifth anniversary of the
Stonewall uprising in Greenwich Village,
the first major public demonstration by the
gay community. What has not been reported,
however, is the “queering,” to use their own
term, of American colleges and universities, a
revolution currently being effected in earnest
and with almost universal success.
This movement to change the sexual
climate of the college campus seems to
contradict social and economic trends in
two primary ways. First, there is the consistent move towards using such programs as
a bludgeon to batter the free speech rights
of non-gay students who do not endorse
the gay political agenda. And second, gay
programs are expanding exponentially at a
time when budgetary cuts and routine staff
firings have become necessary for many
American universities to maintain their financial stability.
Under the guise of seeking “equal rights”
for gays, lesbians, and bisexuals, often selfdescribed “queer” activists have invaded
academia. Their agenda includes not merely
obtaining equal status and “civil rights,”
but special privileges. As the Chairman of
Northeastern University’s Committee on
Diversity and Community put it: “We believe
that diversity isn’t something that you should
tolerate. It’s something that you should promote.” Such promotion goes far beyond mere
toleration, as Northeastern’s recent decision
to actively recruit gay and lesbian professors
demonstrates.
Northeastern’s decision was premised on
the belief widespread among homosexual
leaders that gays are discriminated against
and under-represented in higher education.
Without providing evidence to establish the
purported discrimination or under-representation, homosexual activists merely decry
heterosexist hegemony, and demand recompensive justice. Administrators’ capitulation
is often manifest in special and exclusionary
programs and services established under the
rubric of “equal opportunity.”
A 1989 report at Rutgers University, entitled “In Every Classroom: The Report of the
President’s Select Committee for Lesbian and
Gay Concerns,” urged the implementation
of special accommodation and treatment of
homosexuals, which has manifested itself in
several ways over the past five years.
Homosexuals at Rutgers proclaim their
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By DAVID BOBB, Junior, Hillsdale College
Reprinted from Campus magazine, Winter, 1995
“queerness” at “Coming Out Days,” celebrate
their “outing” at “Kiss-ins” in the quadrangle,
live in “gay friendly” residences, do research
in the gay archives, work at the campus gay
What has not been
reported…is the
“queering,” to use
their own term, of
American colleges
and universities, a
revolution currently
being effected in
earnest and with
almost universal
success.
hotline, enroll in various gay and lesbian studies courses (one of which is called “Beyond
Heterosexism”), and after graduation join the
Gay & Lesbian Alumni Association.
The Annual Lesbian and Gay Studies
Conference was held at Rutgers in 1991; the
school’s “Select Committee” provided for an
assistant dean for homosexual students; “belittling comments” about homosexuals are
banned; and freshmen must attend sensitivity
training where they watch a pro-homosexual
video entitled “A Little Respect.” Thus does
Rutgers abrogate the legitimate free speech
rights of straight students while it procures
special privileges for homosexual students.
As the Washington Times phrased it, Rutgers’
efforts ultimately entail “making straight
students like it or else.”
Apparently, straight students must not
only like it, but pay for it as well. At Rutgers, tuition and mandatory student fees
fund homosexual programs from which the
majority of students derive no benefit. At the
same time, New Jersey taxpayers are required
to subsidize a shrill minority. Nevertheless,
homosexual student leaders are still not
satisfied. Students at Rutgers responding to
a nationwide survey conducted by The Gay,
Lesbian, and Bisexual Students’ Guide to
Colleges, Universities, and Graduate Schools
rated Rutgers’ policy as “between proactive
and noncommittal.” Apparently, whatever
action is taken in favor of the homosexual
college community, it will never be enough;
as one gay professor said in Radical Teacher
magazine: “Ask not what we can do for the
academy, but whether it can do anything for
lesbian and gay people.”
American academia has willingly obliged:
Rutgers’ preferential policies and programs
are not unique. According to the National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force, more than 150
colleges and universities maintain policies
prohibiting discrimination based on “sexual
orientation.”
At many schools, including Pennsylvania
State University, straight students requesting
room changes because their roommates are
homosexual are denied reassignment. However, there exist special gay-lesbian-bisexual
dorm “corridors” and gay “theme” dormitories at institutions such as the University of
Massachusetts-Amherst and many campuses
in the University of California system .
Special offices like the University of Florida’s Committee on Sexism and Homophobia
have been established by universities around
the nation, ostensibly to combat discrimination. The University of Minnesota’s Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgender Programs
Office offers significant grants to students
who would like to “participate in extended
experiences of ‘immersion’ in human differences.” At public institutions such as
the University of Minnesota, it is taxpayers
who foot the bill for these expenditures. At
Columbia University, $200,000 has been set
aside for scholarships awarded to students
active in gay concerns on campus.
Such expenditures come at a time when
many institutions, public and private, are
slashing budgets. At Stanford University,
the main student union saw its annual budget
reduced by almost 25%, while the Lesbian,
Gay and Bisexual Community Center retained its full budget. The funding decision
was rendered after a Center staffer issued a
veiled threat, querying whether the homosexual activists would be “forced to take over
[Stanford] President Casper’s office if our
community center is taken away.”
At Indiana University, a battle raged last
spring over the proposed opening of a Gay,
Lesbian and Bisexual (GLB) Center. Citing
the existence of funding programs for GLB
activities at seven other Big Ten schools,
OUT, Indiana University’s GLB Student
Union, decided to establish its own center,
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Under the guise of seeking “equal rights” for gays, lesbians, and bisexuals, often
self-described “queer” activists have invaded academia. Their agenda includes
not merely obtaining equal status and “civil rights,” but special privileges.
at a cost of $50,000 to students and taxpayers. The authorization to fund the center
was made without the Bloomington Faculty
Council voting on the measure, and without
the trustees being notified of the decision.
The Bloomington chancellor’s unilateral
decision to fund the center drew widespread
criticism. The president of Indiana University’s Board of Trustees, citing the division
produced by the center’s special funding and
the inadvisability of such an expenditure during a time of “budget shortages,” opposed the
decision to fund. He was joined by an Indiana
state representative, who noted that 17 other
representatives were upset by the decision,
all of whom questioned the educational relevance of the center.
The granting of special privileges to gay
students and faculty extends beyond financial
benefits to the realm of the thoughts and
beliefs of straight students. For example, the
University of Michigan’s “Student Guide to
Proper Behavior” grouped “failure to invite
someone to a party because she’s a lesbian”
with racist threats. New York University Law
School students refused to debate a mootcourt case about a hypothetical divorced
lesbian mother attempting to win custody
of her child, because arguing the negative
side of the case would be damaging to gays.
These changes in institutional approaches to
the issue of sexual diversity are not limited to
the Ivy League, or to schools in traditionally
liberal regions of the country.
In April, 1992, the Social Work Department of St. Cloud State University, located in
central Minnesota, issued a statement which,
in the name of protecting the homosexual
minority, violated the rights of social work
students to freedom of speech and religion.
The self-proclaimed “gatekeepers” of the
Social Work Department declared: “It is
simply not acceptable for social workers
to view homosexual people as perverse or
as sinners....” Given specific admonition
to reconsider their decision to enter social
work were students with “strong religious
backgrounds.” Ignoring those students whose
religious convictions hold that homosexuality is aberrant behavior, the policy statement
went on to say, “We can expect from social
work students that they both recognize their
homophobia and commit themselves to learn
more about [it].”
Forced to remove the specific reference
to religion by threat of a lawsuit and the
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actions of a student group called Students
Advocating Valid Education, the department
nevertheless did not abandon its presumption
of homophobia among students. Such an attitude is not exclusive to St. Cloud State, but
actually undergirds the burgeoning field of
gay and lesbian studies, sometimes referred
to by its proponents as “queer studies.”
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
estimates that there are “close to fifty” programs in “lesbian/gay studies” in the United
States. Approximately “600 scholars working in gay and lesbian studies” are listed in
the Directory of Lesbian and Gay Studies,
published by the Center for Lesbian and Gay
Studies at the University of New York and
funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
reports that though “recently regarded as
University of Iowa with a theme of “Inqueery,
InTheory, InDeed.’’ Papers presented at the
conference included “Peter Pan or Pervert?”
and “Producing Queer Sex Space Theory.”
Panel discussion topics included “Butch
Rage: Daggers, Dykes, and Daddies” and
“Lesbians and the Law.”
Despite the explosion of gay and lesbian
studies, gay scholars continue to lament the
supposedly deplorable state of “queer studies.” One scholar states that “gay and lesbian
studies has gained no more than a toe-hold in
the academy.” Insisting that “Queer Studies”
should not be ghettoized, another scholar
demands that gay academics “must infiltrate
every aspect of every curriculum.”
As legal scholar Roger Magnuson notes,
“The issue is not whether rights have been
infringed. The issue is whether rights, not
marginal or too risky, gay and lesbian studies
programs have moved from the sidelines to
the center of academic publishing.”
There are even national conferences devoted to “queer studies.” In November, 1994,
the Sixth North American Lesbian, Gay, and
Bisexual Studies Conference was held at the
previously recognized, should be created.”
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E D U C A T I O N
Controversial history standards fight back
D
on’t think that we can all forget about
the controversial National Standards
for U.S. History just because the U.S.
Senate voted 99-1 to repudiate them.
Don’t think that those outrageous standards
have been canceled just because Lynne
Cheney, the Bush appointee who authorized
the $2 million taxpayers’ grant, has been
on television expressing indignation at how
bad they are.
Thousands of copies of this 271-page attempt to brainwash students with left-wing
revisionism have been flooding into schools
across the country. Furthermore, its perpetrators are doing what all government handout
recipients do when their mischief is exposed
– engage in grassroots lobbying to keep the
taxpayer funds flowing.
The National History Standards Project at
the University of California at Los Angeles
(which authored this travesty) has mailed
out thousands of copies of a 13-page packet
designed to motivate teachers to write their
congressmen requesting enforcement of
these left-wing revisionist standards. The
packet contains the names and addresses
of key senators and representatives, plus a
list of sample paragraphs to include in your
letters (to discourage you from doing your
own investigation).
The most revealing part of this lobby
packet is the boast that “these standards have
the support of all of the leading history and
social studies professional organizations,” including the National Education Association,
the National Association of State Boards of
Education, the American Historical Association, and the World History Association.
Assuming this is true, it proves that the
current crop of academic professionals is
determined to drop the DWEMs (Dead White
European Males) down an Orwellian memory
hole and to replace history with “Oppression
Studies,” featuring third-rate feminist and
minority writers who attack Western civilization as sexist, racist and oppressive.
Unfortunately, there also are some exBush administration officials who think that
these history standards need only a cosmetic
face-lift. A little editing cannot possibly
cure their fundamental defects. The idea of
the federal government writing or financing
public school curricula is an elitist, totalitarian notion that should be unacceptable in
America.
The attacks on Western civilization so
permeate these national history standards
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By PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY
Copley News Service
that even American Federation of Teachers
chairman Al Shanker said this is the first
time a government has tried to teach children
to “feel negative about their own country.”
The multicultural distortions of the national
standards are so gross that even the New
York Times complained that they teach
students to admire Aztec architecture but do
not mention the uncivilized Aztec practice
of human sacrifice.
Distorted versions of history appear on
almost every page. Coverage of World War
II relegates the Pacific theater to minor importance. The standards dwell repeatedly on
the internment of the Japanese Americans
and provide exercises to get students to relive
those unhappy experiences. But there is no
reference to the cruelty of the Japanese, such
as at the Bataan Death March.
The standards tell students to describe
how the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
were advantageous to the United States. The
book, however, does not mention the treaties’
disadvantages, or that SALT I was repeatedly
broken by the Soviets, or that the U.S. Senate
refused to ratify SALT II.
The adoption of national standards in
major school subjects by all public school
districts was mandated by the Goals 2000:
Educate America Act, signed by President
Clinton last year. The adoption of standards
is called “voluntary,” but the receipt of federal
money in the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act is tied to the acceptance of
the “voluntary” standards. So much for being voluntary!
Most state departments of education are
well on their way toward writing the national
standards into state law, into state mandates
on local school districts and into school
curriculum. Local school districts will find
it so easy to adopt the packaged thinking in
the national standards rather than go to the
trouble and expense of writing their own.
Beginning in 1993, many states signed
contracts and paid big bucks to a private group
called the New Standards Project (NSP) to
write the state standards, which is why the
various “state standards” look as if they were
cut from the same cloth. NSP advertised that
its state standards would be benchmarked to
the national standards.
If parents fail to stop the brainwashing and
revisionism that is going on today in the name
or “standards,” they will have lost control of
their schools – and of their children.
We have so much to be proud of about
America. Whether our young people will
learn about our glorious history will depend
on whether our schoolchildren can read well
enough to read history books and, if so,
whether schools will require them to read the
history that really happened, or to study the
liberal brainwashing produced by leftwing
academics with our tax dollars.
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Church…from page 1
lists some companies more than once.
Investment
Amount
Corporate Bonds
Disney Co. Debentures (See p. 3 and 9.)
6,000
General Motors Acceptance Corp.
4,919
General Motors Corp.
11,700
(In partnership with Spectravision to provide movies,
including porn movies to hotel rooms)
ITT Corp.
9,465
(Owns Sheraton hotels which has in-room porn
movies)
Time Warner, Inc. Debentures
10,000
(See p. 14.)
Common Stocks
Cap Cities/ABC
Comcast Corp.
Walt Disney Co.
General Electric/NBC
General Motors
ITT (Sheraton)
Marriott
Time Warner
Unilever (See p. 1.)
Blockbuster Entertainment
Walt Disney
General Electric/NBC
General Motors
Marriott
Blockbuster Entertainment
Time Warner
14,000
399,000
638,000
459,000
631,000
26,000
553,000
531,000
19,000
24,000
24,000
24,000
47,000
52,000
1,000
3,000
If these two are indeed representative of
the other denominational investments with
pension funds, the Church is doing a pretty
good job of funding an entertainment industry
intent on removing Christian influence in
our society.
Interestingly enough, according to a 1993
list of holdings, the UM Board of Pensions
holds 39,000 shares of Southwest Airlines
stock. Southwest recently told a flight attendant that while on duty she could not read her
Bible or speak of God. She said she was told
that as an employee of Southwest, she could
not read her Bible while a passenger, even if
she was not on duty, so as not to offend other
passengers. (See story on page 3.)
____________________
Unilever…from page 1
he doesn’t feel that Christians and other
concerned individuals care enough to act on
their beliefs,” Wildmon stated.
AFA encourages individuals to write
Goldstein a personal letter to let him know
that Unilever products are no longer welcome
in their homes and to call Unilever’s customer
service 1-800-598-1223 to pass along the
same message. (Please be polite.)
Unilever United States Inc., Pres. Richard A. Goldstein, 390 Park Avenue, New
York, NY 10022.
Boycott Unilever products
Aim toothpaste
Brut toiletries
Caress soap
Close-Up toothpaste
Cutex nail polisher and
remover
Dove soap
Lever 2000 soap
Lifebuoy soap
Mentadent toothpaste
Pepsodent toothpaste
Pond’s Cream
Power Stick deodorant
Q-tips
Rave hair care
Shield soap
Signal mouthwash
Vaseline products
HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS
All detergent
Dove detergent
Final Touch fabric
conditioner
Snuggle liquid
fabric softener
Sunlight dishwashing
detergent
Surf detergent
Wisk detergent
FOOD PRODUCTS
Breyers ice cream
products
Chicken Tonight
Country Crock butter
Good Humor ice
cream bars
Healthy Sensation
salad dressing
I Can’t Believe It’s
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AFA JOURNAL • MAY, 1995
■ Homosexuality in America: Exposing
the Myths
■ Re-Imagining Conference: A Report.
■ Public School Sex Education: A Report.
■ A Guide to What One Person Can Do
About Pornography. Step-by-step guide
to fight porn in your community.
■ Christianity and Humanism: A Study in
Contrasts. Six sessions, Biblically based,
good for Sunday school, Bible study.
■ Pornography: A Report.
■ Anti-Christian Bias in America. Reveals
bias in government, media and education.
■ The Fight Back Book. Gives addresses of
TV advertisers and government officials.
PRICES FOR TITLES LISTED ABOVE:
1 copy ............................. $2.00 each
2-9 copies ......................... 1.50 each
10-49 copies ..................... 1.00 each
50 or more ........................ .50 each
■ Dedication Service for the Unborn. Bulletin insert. $5/100.
■ MTV Examined. Comprehensive look at
the effects of Music Television on American Youth. 30 minutes. Professionally
produced. $10.
BILLBOARDS
■ Anti-Porn Billboard. “Pornography victimizes women and children” $25 each.
■ AIDS Billboard. “Abstinence or AIDS: It’s
your choice.” $25. (English or Spanish:
standard size only, no local sponsor line.)
■ Porn Addiction Helpline Billboard. A
man is caught in the act of looking at porn.
“Can’t stop looking at pornography?”
Includes helpline phone number. $29.
Send check with order to: AFA Resources,
P. O. Drawer 2440, Tupelo, MS 38803
Take this card shopping. Boycott these Unilever products
which help sponsor trash on TV.
COSMETICS & FRAGRANCES
Aviance perfume
Babe cosmetics
Cachet perfume
Calvin Klein cosmetics
Elizabeth Arden
cosmetics
Elizabeth Taylor’s
Passion cologne
Faberge´ cosmetics
Hero cologne
Impulse body spray
Obsession fragrance
Sunflowers perfume
White Diamonds
perfume
White Shoulders
fragrances
Wind Song perfume
HEALTH CARE PRODUCTS
AFA RESOURCES
Not Butter
Imperial margarine
Kettle Creations
soup mixes
Mrs. Butterworth’s
syrup
Lawry’s seasoning salt
Lipton tea and soups
Pizza Quick
Popsicle frozen treats
Promise spreads
Ragu’ Italian foods
Shedd’s Spreads
Wish-Bone salad
dressing
In His steps…from page 2
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst
for righteousness, for they will be filled.
“Blessed are the merciful, for they will
be shown mercy.
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they
will see God.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they
will be called sons of God.
“Blessed are those who are persecuted
because of righteousness, for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven.
“Blessed are you when people insult
you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds
of evil against you because of me. Rejoice
and be glad , because great is your reward in
heaven, for in the same way they persecuted
the prophets who were before you.”
If you are a fellow Christian pilgrim, I
hope you too can one day journey across the
Atlantic and visit the Holy Land.
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