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From: bitmap@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: re: Re: The Falwellite Frenzy
Message-ID: <422@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 1-Apr-84 02:24:14 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr  1 02:24:14 1984
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>> An example of Liberal intolerance would be the 'welcome' Fallwell received
>> when he spoke at Harvard last year.  Contrast that with the warm reception
>> that Ted Kennedy received at Liberty Baptist College a few months later.
>> It seems that cat calls and jeers at Jerry Falwell are justified because
>> "Falwell is wrong and Liberals are right"...

>In my book, the catcalls and jeers would be wrong in either direction...but
>I suppose that in each case the audience treated the speaker with the same
>regard that they have come to expect from the speaker.  That is, while
>Kennedy has no use for the reactionary Protestant fundamentalists, at least
>he can keep a civil tongue in his head most of the time.  Falwell, on the
>other hand, would be happy to drive the liberals from the face of the earth
>straight through the gates of hell if he had the power - and he was greeted
>with corresponding respect.
>-- 
>{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd

This sounds almost like an apology for the disruptive Harvard
students, and seems a bit inconsistent.  After all, you say, earlier:

>                      I will condemn anyone for using immoral or unethical
>tactics to gain his ends.  If both the MM and their opponents are playing
>dirty politics to get their own selfish ways, they are both wrong and I am
>against both.  Ends DO NOT justify means.  

Agreed.  I believe that the point of the original article was to
point out the hypocrisy of some (not all, of course) of the
"Liberals" in attacking the M.M.  In my own experience, I have
heard a minister cry out for the church (and its members) to become
involved in certain political issues, preach tolerance and 
"not casting the first stone", and lambast Falwell & the Moral Majority,
all in the same sermon.  

Sam Hall, UCB
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(Berkeley:  too small to be a nation, too large to be an insane asylum.)