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Subject: Re: Re: Corrupting youth: Conservative [sic.] Campus Tabloids
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Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 22:46:09 EST
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> .
> 
> >I agree that from your article it sounds like some of these
> >journals have fascist tendencies.  I haven't ever seen
> >one of these papers, and would wonder if the examples
> >you cited weren't one or two individual editors out of
> >control, rather than some conspiracy.
> 
> I saw a documentary last Sunday  night  that  addressed  the
> issues  these  groups  (the  radical right) are making a big
> noise about.  It showed how the radical  conservatives  have
> caused  censureship  of  school  materials,  the  firing  of
> teachers for including books by Hemingway  and  Bradbury  on
> their  reading  lists,  organized book burnings and more.  I
> even saw one religious  leader  advocate  execution  of  gay
> people.

I realized, when I got to this article in the series, that the
discussion was branching out beyond the question of the behavior of
the press and into a left versus right brangle.  I would request all
net members to remember that television news teams are responsible to
their management for producing a marketable product, not correctly
informing the American public on the political and social issues of
our times.

I would also like to ask, how would you characterize the following
behavior: grouping all people to the right (or left) of your position
together.  If I happen to be moderate in my beliefs and you slightly
to the left, then would it be fair to group me with someone who
"advocate(s) execution of gay people?"

> 
> It is not an isolated case it is  a  whole  movement.  These
> people  are telling their members that they don't have to be
> the majority to get their way, they  just  have  to  be  the
> loudest  and the heads of these groups are religious leaders
> like Jerry Falwell.
> 

Without defending Jerry Falwell, I request Mr. Pease get his facts
straight.  Rev. Falwell does not tell his parishioners that the way to
"get their way" is to make the most noise.  He tells them the way to
prevail is to organize at the ballot box.  The current anxiety in
liberal ranks is due, in part, to the fact that he is doing that very
well and to great effect.


> 
> Unfortunately, this is exactly what these groups are  trying
> to do.  They have already destroyed the effectiveness of the
> child abuse laws in one state not  by  legislation,  but  by
> peer  pressure.  This  in  spite of the fact that 8 children
> died due to child abuse in that state during the  year  that
> these  groups  campaigned  against  that  states child abuse
> laws.
> 

I don't know to what Mr. Pease is referring so I can hardly rebut it.
However, it seems to me that one of the primary planks of the
religious right is "family rights" and certainly that cannot include
child abuse.  Is it possible that the legislation was so written as to
provide for untoward state intervention in family matters?  I don't
see how else to reconcile the apparrent inconsistency.

> 
> 					Robert A. Pease
>     {hplabs|zehntel|fortune|ios|tolerant|allegra|tymix}!oliveb!oliven!rap



			Jeff Hull