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From: strickln@ihlpa.UUCP (Stricklen)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.legal,net.misc
Subject: Re: Autodialing Falwell - a different perspective
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Date: Sun, 19-Jan-86 10:36:02 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 19 10:36:02 1986
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> As it is, having a few older
> relatives who are died-in-the-wool Southern Methodists and who have come close
> on occasion to giving away everything they have to support them for the next
> twenty-odd years to some of these money-hungry vampires, I fully support the
> man's actions.  He was not attempting to be democratic at all, you see -- he
> was striking out at an injustice that was a potential hurt to someone he
> loved and over which he had no other recourse except what he did with his
> little autodialer.
> 
I agree with Mr. Jackson that Jerry Falwell's freedom of speech was in no way
violated by this act, albeit it an illegal one.  My grandmother has re-
discovered her religion (strict Southern Baptist) since the death of my
grandfather.  Although she had little formal education (through fourth grade
in backwoods Arkansas) she has always been one of the most intelligent persons
I have known.  She has never fallen into the TV evangelists' traps, but she
has seen it happen to many of her friends.  One man, in particular, is
suffering from a disease his doctors can do nothing about.  This man sent
$25 to Oral Roberts so the huckster would pray for him.  The only thing the
poor man got was a request in two weeks for $50 more -- to get more personal
attention from Mr. Roberts.  The man sent this money, and of course got 
another request for an even larger donation.  I am happy to see someone
tried to slow down this continuing rape of persons who can ill afford to
part with their funds.  

Steve Stricklen
AT&T Bell Laboratories
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