"My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism." – Clinton per Marquez (Jerusalem Post 3/28/99)

Washington Post 7/95 Stephen Higgins (Director BATF – WACO) "…The day has long passed when we can afford to ignore the threat that is posed by individuals who believe they are subject only to the laws of their god and not those of our government…. …."

9/26/98 Freeper reports ".. MSNBC quotes a White House source saying that not even "a delegation made up of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost" could persuade the president to step down.."

New York Post Deborah Orin "PRESIDENT Clinton would go ballistic if anyone slurred a White House aide's religion - but he's winking at aide Sid Blumenthal's attack on Ken Starr's top deputy as a "fanatic" evangelical Christian..In a speech at Harvard, Blumenthal said Starr deputy Hickman Ewing is a "religious fanatic" - apparently because he's an evangelical who prays daily. He also branded Starr a "zealot on a mission divined from a higher authority." And he painted Starr's probe as a "perverse episode" that will come to be seen as a "reign of witches" - a phrase borrowed from Thomas Jefferson..You'd think Clinton, a regular Sunday churchgoer and passionate critic of divisive rhetoric, might be a tad embarrassed by Blumenthal's cracks. But when the president was asked, he just dodged: "I don't have any comment about that."."

IRS AUDIT: Christian Film and Television Commission

TAX EXEMPT STATUS CHALLENGED: Christian Coalition, Three chapters of American Family Association, Life Legal Defense Foundation, Pierce Creek Church (Vestal, NY), Second Baptist Church (Lake Jackson, Texas)

The Winds Website 8/1998 "The only church in history to have its federal tax-exempt status revoked is a small country church in Vestal, New York called The Church at Pierce Creek. Their crime that resulted in that revocation was simply mentioning the name of then Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton in an advertisement the church placed in USA Today and The Washington Times.. "As a result of the Times editorial the IRS included pejorative language in their reports, such as 'militant right' or 'radical Christian right' to describe the church--terms that were never used in the actual New York Times editorial."To us this revealed that the government really had an ill motive in picking on this church.".Ironically, the IRS tax code Section 508(c)(1)(A) entitled, "Special rules with respect to section 501(c)(3) organizations" specifically exempts churches from the restrictions enumerated under 501(c)(3). "Since only in 501(c)(3) do you have the restrictions about political activity," May elaborated, "churches are exempt organizations, and don't even have to abide by the restrictions of 501(c)(3)."

Freeper followup note on the above: "Pastor John Hagee in Texas, who has 13,000 members of his church is also being defended by the ACLJ. Pastor Hagee calls them the way he sees them, and he has Billie a sinner many times from the pulpit. He wrote a book called Day of Deception He tells about how our government is deceiving us and the darkness around us. In Matthew 24 it states that the cardinal indicator of the terminal generation would be deception. The first 5 chapters are about deception in government. They are about Hillary and Bill--The death of Vince Foster, The village wants your children, etc. This for some reason did not set well with our dictators. So he sent the post office after him. They won't let him mail his monthly magazine under the non-profit status. They claim that taking people on a trip to the Holy Land has nothing to do with religion, nor did a lecture on Matthew, or something similar I can get the exact issue if desired, have anything to do with the church. So he must mail first class postage."

The Village Voice Nat Hentoff 8/18/98 "When the president and his spiritual adviser, Jesse Jackson, were in Africa earlier this year, a group of fifth-graders in Denver intently followed the coverage of the journey on television. They desperately hoped Clinton and Jackson would say something about the thousands upon thousands of black Christians and animists who have been enslaved in the Sudan with the encouragement and support of the totalitarian fundamentalist National Islamic Front--the government based in the North. These fifth-graders have become very knowledgeable about the horrifying chattel slavery in the Sudan. And when Clinton acted as if it didn't exist, they were furious, and one of the students wrote him, ''Why aren't you doing anything about this?'' There was, of course, no answer. As for Jesse Jackson's continued silence, he knows about the slavery in the Sudan. I have left him several messages, as have others. It may be that he doesn't have the courage to speak out because he doesn't want to offend Minister Farrakhan, who has been honored in Khartoum, the capital of the Sudan. Jackson has been careful in the past not to directly antagonize the commander in chief of the Nation of Islam.."

Underground Roman Catholic Bishop Su Zhimin spent 15 years in prison before his release in 1993; he was tortured throughout and then re-arrested shortly before President Jiang Zhemin's state visit to the United States in October, 1997 and remains in detention In 1997, Protestant leaders reported that about 40% of the inmates in labor camps in Henan Province are there for belonging to the Christian underground. In Henan Number One Labor Camp, for example, approximately 50 out of 126 inmates are imprisoned for underground church activities. On March 16, 1997, Peter Xu Yongze, Protestant leader with millions of followers, was arrested and jailed with seven others in Henan. Ambassador Sasser did not know what a house church is.

CNS Bruce Sullivan 8/12/98 "A Christian pastor and four men were handing out religious leaflets last week in a section of Las Vegas frequented by drug dealers and street walkers, when they were arrested, jailed, and strip-searched by the police. They were charged with blocking the sidewalk, then handcuffed, and thrown into a paddy wagon as denizens of "Crack Alley," which is what that part of Fremont Street is nicknamed, watched.." 'Sing your Christian hymns now,'" Robinson says one of the police officers said. "They compared us to the folks in Waco," Robinson told CNS referring to the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. ."

The Federal Election Commission sued the Christian Coalition, claiming its political support for specific candidates violated campaign finance rules.

The London Telegraph Ambrose Evans-Pritchard ".What if he puts on one of his magnificent, lip-biting, teary acts of contrition in the Oval Office, with the whole nation watching bewitched on television, and ends with an admission of the Lewinsky affair and a plea for forgiveness? . It would be utterly nauseating, yet it might very well work in the mushy, sentimental, post-Christian morality of fin de siŠcle America. He may skate yet, as they say in Arkansas."

Daily Press Briefing 9/23/98 Mike McCurry ".Q: Your use of the phrase of the "jihad caucus" -- do you think some people up there think they are engaged in a holy war against the President? MR. MCCURRY: I don't know. You'd have to ask them. Q: But it was your phrase. (Laughter.) Q: We have to ask you. MR. MCCURRY: I don't think it's necessarily inappropriate."

Freeper observation by The Oregon Homeboy "Frankly, I don't think the problem is with the Clinton Administration. While I detest Clinton and everything he stands for, he uses -- co-opts -- religion in a manner that does not directly attack it. For example, his work with the two pastors on "healing his soul" -- an example of using religion for the effect it has upon the religion's adherents. The deeper problem is in the mainstream media, many of which are not religious and thus contemptuous of the notion that a person can have a personal relationship with God."

AP Sonya Ross 4/7/98 "The White House said Monday that President Clinton has no regrets about taking Communion from a Catholic priest during his visit to South Africa, a move that was criticized by some American Catholics. .In a Palm Sunday homily, Cardinal John O'Connor said it was wrong for the officiating priest to give Clinton the sacrament, "however well-intentioned" his actions were. "Cardinal O'Connor may not be familiar with the doctrinal attitude towards the Holy Eucharist that the Conference of Bishops in South Africa brings to that question," McCurry said in response..."

9/26/98 Jewish World Review Binyamin Jolkovsky ".But now, as we've been banging on foundations' doors, our main rival -- an outfit called JCN18 -- and a former employee of that company who now writes for a commie weekly -- no hyperbole! -- are launching an attack on JWR because -- get this! -- Republican and Christian sites link to us. Because I don't want contributions from individuals who write pieces exclusively for us on the Jewish Sabbath (thus desecrating it), and because of of our positions on morality.."

Provencial Proverbs 3/4/98 ACE ".And today the pundits of popular culture tell us that good and evil are not absolute, but open to personal interpretation. The modern liberal believes it, and the classical liberal is adamant about it. We are encouraged to take it onto ourselves to determine what is right, and what is wrong. And on the surface, there's no denying it seems a philosophy that has logical and reasonable potential. Even the fundamental principles of the universe itself seem mathematically relative. There's just one problem. If I take it onto myself to determine what's right for me, how do you actually defend yourself if it isn't right for you? What if I decide it's right for me to deceive you in order to take advantage of you? I mean, it is relative, isn't it? And what if you don't find out until it's too late for you? Of course therein lies the rub.."

Freeper CitizenX reports ".I for one am sickened by the attacks on my faith. I have seen time and time again where when I speak out on a issue from a moral standpoint I am attacked for "forcing my faith down their throat". Even though I am choosing my words to speak from a scientific viewpoint. Example: If I do not mention my Faith in God, and state that abortion is wrong because the unborn child is not "a blob of tissue" but a living Human being, genetically unique from the mother. It meets all the criteria of life: cellular division, exchange of O2 and CO2, assimilation of nutrients, etc. If I point out that this life begins at the beginning, which is conception, and the willful destruction of a unique human life is murder, the woman who pays for this surgical procedure has in fact contracted for a murder, and the abortionist is guilty of not only murder but is in truth a serial murderer of children! If I say that I am told "Don't force YOUR religion down my throat!" ."

Reagan Information Interchange 9/28/98 Mary Mostert "Apparently word went out last week to the Clinton troops to try to defend Clinton by announcing a "Christian coup" that plans to "take over the government." Obviously they hope to convince America that lying under oath about sex is not an impeachable offense. The very idea, according to Alan Dershowitz on the Geraldo Rivera show, as he attacked the Rev. Jerry Falwell, is proof of a "Christian coup" that plans "to take over the U.S. Government by impeaching Clinton or forcing him to resign "merely for lying." According to Dershowitz, the sinister "Christian coup" is based on what he considers the perfectly outrageous notion that "lying about sex" an "impeachable offense." The message here is that any of you out there who are asking for resignation or impeachment of Bill Clinton, are part of "Christian coup" that is trying to "take over" America. Makes one wonder if Bill Clinton was part of some "Christian coup" back in 1974 when he was saying that lying - not under oath - just lying to the media was definitely an impeachable offense.It must be noted that Richard Nixon was not lying under oath. He was lying basically to the media before an election, covering up what he considered to be a national security operation gone awry as a group of younger aides tried to carry out his directive to find out how national security information was being leaked to the media.."

WorldNetDaily 10/16/98 Alan Keyes ".The hate crimes legislation movement is bogus, but the existence of hateful attitudes toward the Christian conscience is undeniable. This is a very dangerous world that we are moving into. And sadly speaking, it is clear that opponents of the Christian conscience will use every opportunity, and will even make use of terrible and tragic events, in order to promote their political agenda. And that is what is happening in the Wyoming case. We face the promotion of a political ideology that aims at arming the liberal left with coercive force of law as its advocates come after those who disagree with their immorality.."

The Washington Times 10/19/98 Robert Stacy McCain ".David Horowitz spent the 1960s as a radical leftist, urging the overthrow of the U.S. government. Nowadays, he's a conservative who would be content with the overthrow of the Clinton administration..As the son of Communist Party members - a so-called "red diaper baby" - Mr. Horowitz studied the works of Marx, Lenin and Trotsky from an early age. Despite the collapse of the Soviet Union, he said, "those ideas are alive and well today in America." ..But such movements - which Mr. Horowitz described as "kitsch Marxism" - have proven powerful in the 1990s. "The reason for the tenacity of the Marxist world view is because it's really a religion," he said, "a movement of people who think that government can create the kingdom of heaven on earth." This religion is most powerful, Mr. Horowitz said, in American universities. "There are more Marxists in our universities today than ever before," he said. "The university now defines itself as an agent of social change. . . . Everything is about power." Conservatives, he said, should not underestimate the left. "These are very smart people. They are very ruthless. . . . They're not going to tell you what their agenda is."."

Roll Call 10/19/98 Morton M. Kondracke "The Monica Lewinsky scandal has hit the high culture. Distinguished writers regard it not as a tale of tawdry sex and perjury, but of American freedom menaced by ayatollahs, Tourquemadas, McCarthyites and Salem witch hunters. The menace is Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, who is pictured as the leading agent in a right-wing Puritan conspiracy to remove that most precious of all American liberties. It's not freedom of belief or expression, according to the authors ventilating in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books and The New York Times, but the right to engage in sex anywhere, anytime, including in the Oval Office during working hours.The archetypes being drawn by authors such as Toni Morrison, Arthur Miller, E.L. Doctorow and Ethan Canin are of Clinton as a flawed but humanistic leader entrapped, victimized and, possibly, martyred by forces of antediluvian religiosity.."

Provincial Proverbs 3/4/98 ACE c 1998 from Freeper Coyote ".On June 17, 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court forbade Bible reading and prayer in the public schools. One of the nation's most popular magazines later echoed the spirit of this sentiment by running a cover article, entitled "Is God Dead?" It was then followed in the early 1990's by another cover entitled "The Cultural Elite," virtually exhorting the success of the Gramscian thesis. Few knew enough to even take notice. Christian bashing became the norm in popular intellectual circles. New age values became the catch morality. And since that 1963 ruling, the number of U.S. violent crime offenses exploded upward by 700%. The U.S. now has the highest per-capita rate of felony incarceration of all the industrialized First World nations. Premarital sex among 18 year olds jumped from 30% of the population, to 70%. Tax rates for a family of four skyrocket 500% to consume a fourth of their income. Divorce rates quadrupled. Illegitimate births among the black population soared from about 23% to more than 68%, leaving mothers contained by the state and fatherless children to roam the streets in search of trouble. Illegitimacy as a whole has jumped from 5% to nearly 30% nationwide for a total rise of 600%! On July 17, 1994, the New York Times even quoted liberal Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan saying that overall American illegitimacy could rise to 50% by the year 2000! Cases of sexually transmitted disease rose 150%. Virtually lethal sexually transmitted plagues like AIDS and Hepatitis C swept through the nation, even tainting the blood supply. Teen age illegitimate pregnancies are up by several thousand percent, and teen age suicides have increased by 200%. Even the president himself is accused of sexual harassment, and having orax sex with a 21 year old intern in the Oval Office of the White House. Between 1950 and 1979, serious crime committed by children under 15 increased 11,000%! That's eleven thousand percent! Say it again: ELEVEN THOUSAND PERCENT!."

National Review On-line 10/26/98 Jonah Goldberg ".In today's New York Times, Bill Safire rightly scolds President Clinton for telling a group of black ministers that reaching peace in the Middle East was part of his "personal journey of atonement." Safire calls Clinton "smarmy and solipsistic" for making the peace agreement a self-centered achievement. But this is Bill Clinton's way. There's a larger point to be made here, too. Clinton's spinners consistently and constantly say that the President has not been distracted by the scandal. But now the President says he's going for peace in the Middle East to make amends for Monica. You can't have it both ways.."

Freeper black cloud 10/31/98 reports ".It is not that religion is under attack; it is the Christian Religion under attack. All the other religions including Secular Humanism are free to do whatever they wish including attacks on Christians.The prize is the return of slavery and Feudalism to the whole world. It is Christianity alone that brought about the connection of man as being part of God with a human, personal family relationship with Jesus, the Son of God. Whether this is fact or fiction is a matter of faith. However, the result of the belief is that Kings and other dictators lost control of the masses when man started giving his allegiance to a Heavenly Father instead of the ruling elite..People who accept that their nearest relative is a chimpanzee and their fartherest relatives were simple amoebas, can only expect the rights relegated to chimps and amoebas. This is the legacy of the sixties counter culture and this is the legacy of their hero in the White House.."

New York Times 11/8/98 Maureen Dowd ".There's a new spirit wafting through the land. Hey, baby, we're talking about love power. The voters have chosen the lovers over the haters. The meanies with the jangly names -- Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, Lauch Faircloth, Fob James, "B-1" Bob Dornan -- are toast. So are the guys like Al D'Amato, who sneered and jeered and used ethnic and anatomical epithets. So are the Christian zealots. And obsessive special prosecutors. The Democratic lover boys, like Bill Clinton, and the Republican preachers of compassion, like the Bush boys, are being embraced.."

Freeper robnoel 11/8/98 reports ".Just when I thought I have heard everything....on CNN Roberts.. of US News and World Report...said the Republicans need to get rid of the Hamas -Wing of the Republican Party....add that to Comrade Reno putting a FBI Police force to got after "pro- life"orgainizations (Bob Barr exposed this FBI expansion hidden in the budget bills).....Christians attacked in America...whats wrong with this picture....."

Reuters 11/9/98 ".California Congresswoman Mary Bono has long had ties with the Church of Scientology and is still linked with the organization, according to several sources. Bono has taken at least six courses in the religion, according to Celebrity, a Scientology publication that chronicles activities of prominent members. One course, which she took in 1990, was on family counseling...The church has been at the center of several controversies recently; critics accuse it of cultlike tactics and attempts to influence government. Defenders and members of the church, which not long ago received tax-exempt status as a religion from the IRS, say it is the victim of harassment and violation of constitutional rights to religious freedom.."

Larry Margasak 11/10/98 AP ".Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said Republicans "haven't read the election results'' and referred to Starr's perjury and obstruction-of-justice investigation as a "jihad'' - the Arabic word for a holy war.."

The Dallas Morning News 11/11/98 ".A word of sympathy, brethren, for the "religious right." And before I proceed, one innocent question: Anybody remember the last time our all-knowing media dissected something called the "secular left"? Just asking."

Newsmax.com 11/27/98 Pat Buchanan ".Buried in the editorial page of the Nov. 16 Wall Street Journal was a remarkable essay, which exposes the true, and hidden, story of who is really "underrepresented" in our elite schools, and who are the real victims of ethnic bigotry in America. The author is Ron Unz, a Harvardian 20 years ago, now a California political activist and entrepreneur, who led the successful state initiative to abolish bilingual education. According to Unz, today at Harvard College, Hispanic and black enrollment has reached 7 percent and 8 percent, respectively, slightly less than the 10 percent and 12 percent of the U.S. population that is Hispanic and black. This has been a cause of protests at Harvard, as Hispanics and African-Americans insist on more proportional representation. But Unz does not stop there. He goes on to report that nearly 20 percent of the Harvard College student body is Asian- American, and 25 percent to 33 percent is Jewish, though Asian-Americans make up only 3 percent of the U.S. population and Jewish-Americans even less than 3 percent. Thus, 50 percent of Harvard's student body is drawn from about 5 percent of the U.S. population! When one adds foreign students, students from our tiny WASP elite and children of graduates, what emerges is a Harvard student body where non-Jewish whites -- 75 percent of the U.S. population -- get just 25 percent of the slots. Talk about underrepresentation! Now we know who really gets the shaft at Harvard -- white Christians. The same situation, says Unz, exists at other elite schools like Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Berkeley and Stanford, where Chelsea Clinton goes. As Hispanics, Asians, African-American and Jewish-Americans also vote overwhelming Democratic, the picture that emerges is not a pretty one. A liberal elite is salving its social conscience by robbing America's white middle class of its birthright, and handing it over to minorities, who just happen to vote Democratic."

Wall Street Journal 11/30/98 ".The following statement--"Declaration Concerning Religion, Ethics, and the Crisis in the Clinton [the known liar] Presidency"--was signed by 95 religion scholars including Paul J. Achtemeier (Union Theological Seminary), Karl Paul Donfried (Smith College), Jean Bethke Elshtain (University of Chicago), Stanley M. Hauerwas (Duke University), Robert Peter Imbelli (Boston College), Max L. Stackhouse (Princeton Theological Seminary), and Harry Yeide (George Washington University): As scholars interested in religion and public life, we protest the manipulation of religion and the debasing of moral language in the discussion about presidential responsibility. We believe that serious misunderstandings of repentance and forgiveness are being exploited for political advantage. The resulting moral confusion is a threat to the integrity of American religion and to the foundations of a civil society. In the conviction that politics and morality cannot be separated, we consider the current crisis to be a critical moment in the life of our country and, therefore, offer the following points for consideration: 1. Many of us worry about the political misuse of religion and religious symbols even as we endorse the public mission of our churches, synagogues, and mosques... 2. We challenge the widespread assumption that forgiveness relieves a person of further responsibility and serious consequences...3. We are aware that certain moral qualities are central to the survival of our political system, among which are truthfulness, integrity, respect for the law, respect for the dignity of others, adherence to the constitutional process, and a willingness to avoid the abuse of power...4. We are concerned about the impact of this crisis on our children and on our students.. 5. We urge the society as a whole to take account of the ethical commitments necessary for a civil society and to seek the integrity of both public and private morality..6. While some of us think that a presidential resignation or impeachment would be appropriate and others envision less drastic consequences, we are all convinced that extended discussion about constitutional, ethical, and religious issues will be required to clarify the situation and to enable a wise decision to be made. We hope to provide an arena in which such discussion can occur in an atmosphere of scholarly integrity and civility without partisan bias.."

USA Journal 12/4/98 Jon E. Dougherty ".Here now, at the close of the paganistic Twentieth Century, you can be a pillar of your community - and be granted the amenities that distinction affords - so long as you never mention God, never assert your right to be a Christian, and never openly display any tangible Christian insignia. Arlington, Texas Patrol Sergeant George Daniels, a former recipient of the "Rookie of the Year" and "Officer of the Year" awards, is the latest victim of this pagan mentality. Though his Rutheford Institute attorney Jennifer Schans fully expected the city to reject his latest appeal effort to win his job back after being fired this summer for wearing a small cross on his uniform lapel, she also vowed to take the case to federal court when all the appropriate local appeals through the department have been exhausted. Sgt. Daniels had served his community with honor and distinction for some 13 years, and had been working diligently to obtain the rank of lieutenant - the next step on his career ladder. His fellow officers had described his persona and his job performance as `exemplary'. His superiors had consistently rated his work as excellent. And then Sgt. Daniels went and did it. He decided to pin a small cross on his lapel - right next to the DARE pins, the department rank insignia, his first aid training patches, and, ironically, the American flag. For that, his police chief, David Kunkle, sacrificed one of his best patrol sergeants at the altar of paganistic political correctness. Sgt. Daniels seems to be a very wise man; he had to know that the action he took might have cost him his career - at least in Arlington, Texas. After all, this is the end of the Twentieth Century, when Christ no longer dwells in the halls of officialdom, protected by the Constitution. But because he is a Christian - one of God's children and a believer in Jesus Christ - he did what his heart and his faith directed him to do and put his whole life on the line, this time in a different way..What about the employee at work who can be assured a sex joke won't be tolerated but a joke about his or her religion will be? Where are Christians at work supposed to turn for solace? Hat's off to the Rutheford Institute for taking up Sgt. Daniels' case and for their vision to know ahead of time that his legal action will end up in federal court. When it came to matters of strict constitutionality - such as this one - Americans used to be fairly confidant that the federal courts would uphold a citizen's right to utilize a constitutional right. But in all honesty, when it comes to matters of Christian religion, the federal courts are no help anymore. The real travesty here is that Sgt. Daniels has to take his issue to court in the first place.."

Agence France Presse 12/4/98 ".The Dalai Lama .came under attack from an official Chinese newspaper Friday which dubbed the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader a "terrorist" for supporting India's nuclear tests in May. "The Dalai Lama's words only remind people of a terrorist who greatly admires violence and shows no respect for the well-known world rules," the Tibet Daily said in an editorial, excerpts of which were published in the English-language China Daily. The Dalai Lama had called for "full understanding" of the tests conducted by India in the face of global condemnation, it said. "Peace is just a cloak for him to cheat the world," the article said. "Granting Dalai the (Nobel Peace) prize shed discredit on the prize." "Dalai's 'smart' comments on the nuclear tests tore off his mask and showed the nature of a faked pacifist," it said. "Black turns into white and threats are called peace in his mouth." London-based pressure group the Tibet Information Network (TIN) said last month that China had intensified a campaign against the Dalai Lama's followers in Lhasa, searching their homes and cracking down on Tibetan children studying in India..."

UPI 12/6/98 ".The nation's top health officer says Americans have ``to get real'' about educating their children about sex. At the interim meeting of the American Medical Associations House of Delegates in Honolulu (Sunday), Surgeon General David Satcher urged sex education to teach children responsible sexual behavior that includes ``abstinence where appropriate.'' Satcher says in an education vacuum children are learning about sex in all the wrong places: from people on the street, from movies and television shows and from the Internet.."

Washington Times 12/7/98 John McCaslin ".We've intercepted a U.S. Navy internal memo about "Christmas," advising that "new guidelines on expression of religious beliefs in the workplace has [sic] been issued by President Clinton. "As such, religious displays in working areas or offices that are accessible to the public, or where it would appear that the government has endorsed a particular religious point of view, is [sic] not permitted." If that's not enough to put a damper on celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, ."

Chicago Sun-Times 12/11/98 Lynn Sweet Ernest Tucker ".A Wheaton congregation is among a group of eight churches nationwide whose tax-exempt status is being challenged by a group that claims they broke election laws. Americans United for the Separation of Church and State filed formal complaints Thursday with the Internal Revenue Service, seeking to strip the exemptions because they say the churches distributed Christian Coalition material two days before last November's election. ``These houses of worship are breaking federal tax law and penalties must be imposed,'' said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of the Americans United group. A spokesman for the Wheaton Evangelical Free Church, 520 Roosevelt Rd., called the charges ``baseless.'' William Miller, a former associate pastor of the church and spokesman, said, ``we are familiar with the IRS regulations and we have abided by those.'' Miller said he had been unaware of the group's charges. Joseph Conn said his group filed the complaints because the material from the Christian Coalition ``was clearly to endorse Republican candidates.'' He said his group had done an extensive education campaign for churches before the Nov. 3 election to ``educate'' clergy on the boundaries for participating.``We chose eight that we knew of, but obviously there were more,'' he said. ``We just didn't have information on all.''."

Freeper oddither 12/14/98 recalls watching FoxNews ".Yesterday, I commented to a friend, if he took communion from a Priest, the only thing left, is to wear the Jewish religious garb and pray to mecca while he is in the middle east. Sho-nuff there he was dressed like a jew and soon was whisked off so he could be seen as a muslim. Has this man no shame? strike that I know the answer. .."

Irish news 12/14/98 Freeper Big Dog summary ".The Irish News is reporting tonight that the IRA are ready to resume a violent campaign of Bombing and shooting as we approach Christmas. The move comes in spite of North south Elected governments, a withdrawel of British troops, 400 terrorists released, and a United Ireland in it's embyonic stage. The IRA has had all of it's demands met and now it is time to see what happens when a president and a Prime Minister decide to grant terrorists all of their wishes. According to the Good Friday agreement, in exchange for all of the above concessions, the IRA would give up their weapons of Mass destruction. I visited N.Irealnd less than a month ago and I witnessed the most unbelievable turn of events. The Orange order, an organization founded on Christianity requiring it's members to be Christians was not allowed to March home from Church. ."

USA Journal 12/21/98Jon E. Dougherty by Freeper Peggy ".Christians and conservatives would do well to refute what is dishonestly said about them. Unless and until they do, the bogus claims made about how "intolerant" we are will be overshadowed by the intolerance of the Left.."

Washington Times 12/24/98 Joyce Howard Price and Bill Sammon ".A new media report by a liberal on-line magazine about the sex life of a Republican congressman has fueled the debate over the role of private morality in public life, even as President Clinton condemns what he called the "politics of personal destruction." "The left routinely accuses religious conservatives of sexual McCarthyism, but it's the left that is outing gays and exposing the private lives of others. It's not Gary Bauer. It's not the Christian Coalition. It's not the Weekly Standard," said William Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard. "The politics of personal destruction is the politics of Bill Clinton," he said. Salon, the liberal on-line magazine, and Larry Flynt's Hustler magazine have been responsible for most of the recent character assassinations. Victims have included three top House Republicans -- former Speaker-elect Robert L. Livingston of Louisiana; Rep. Henry J. Hyde of Illinois, chairman of the Judiciary Committee; and Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana, chairman of the Government Reform and Oversight Committee. Some Republicans have charged that the White House fed Salon and Hustler the information. The White House and the two publications deny that... Conservative pundit Cal Thomas contrasted Mr. Clinton's current talk about the need for "reconciliation" and "healing" with the attacks his political adviser James Carville has leveled against independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr and House Republicans who voted to impeach Mr. Clinton. "While his minions slime his enemies, [Mr. Clinton] pleaded for the sliming to end," Mr. Thomas wrote in a column that appeared yesterday in The Washington Times. The New York Post's Dick Morris assailed Mr. Carville's "crazed strategy," which he says has hurt the president. Mr. Carville yesterday blamed Republicans for initiating destructive politics by refusing to back off their investigations of Mr. Clinton. "There are doors in life which are best left shut, and they insisted on opening them," he told The Washington Times. "At every point, people begged these people to stop it, and at every point they ignored them." Mr. Carville bemoaned the fact that Hustler's publisher, Mr. Flynt, a staunch Clinton defender, offered $1 million to women who came forward with proof of extramarital affairs with congressional Republicans. In a new development, Salon ran a story Tuesday that accused Mr. Burton of groping a female lobbyist for a family planning organization in the mid-1990s.. The story by Russ Baker, a free-lance writer who penned an earlier Salon article that discussed an extramarital fling Mr. Hyde had with a beautician in the late 1960s and early 1970s, also raised questions about Mr. Burton's ties with a former model, Claudia Keller...A separate report in Tuesday's issue of Salon blamed liberals for "hypocrisy" in "backing a president who lied under oath in a sexual harassment lawsuit." "Before the rest of us get too misty-eyed about ending the politics of character assassination, we might want to take a closer look at our own record in this area," Andrew Ross, a Salon founder and vice president, wrote in an article titled "What if it were President Packwood?" ..Mr. Ross also cited liberal opposition to the nomination of the late Texas Sen. John Tower as defense secretary. His "crime," Mr. Ross said, was that "he enjoyed a drink or two." Others targeted for destruction by liberals, the Salon writer said, included failed Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, "whose video rental receipts were paraded in front of the world," and Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who was hit with a "sex harassment smear" during confirmation hearings. Paul McMasters, ombudsman for the Freedom Forum, says: "The bar hasn't just been lowered. It's been done away with." .."

AP Larry Margasak 12/24/98 ".With the nation's second presidential impeachment trial looming next month, key senators acknowledged Wednesday that bipartisan talks were under way on how to decide the president's fate..Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., a Clinton ally and former boss to presidential Chief of Staff John Podesta, was among the senators Wednesday who said they wanted no White House interference. Leahy said he agreed with the Senate's senior Democrat, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, that only senators should craft a deal. .``I do believe there will come a time when people of good will in Senate will want to resolve this,'' Hatch said. Hatch, who has advocated censure if it appears certain that Clinton can't be convicted, said, ``It's up to the Democrats to show there's no way there will be 67 votes for conviction. Once that is shown to the satisfaction of most Republicans, then people have to see what has to be done in a way that punishes him, but still resolves it.'' ."

NY Times 12/25/98 A. M. Rosenthal "."Millions of American Christians pray in their churches each week, oblivious to the fact that Christians in many parts of the world suffer brutal torture, arrest, imprisonment and even death . . . for no other reason than that they are Christians. . . . They have been persecuted and martyred before an unknowing, indifferent world and a largely silent Christian community. "Eleven countries where Christians are currently enduring religious persecution are China, the Sudan, Pakistan, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Egypt, Nigeria, Cuba, Laos and Uzbekistan. They evidence a worldwide trend of anti-Christian persecution based on two political ideologies -- Communism and militant Islam." I quoted that in my first column on religious persecution, in 1997 -- from "In the Lion's Den," by Nina Shea, a human rights army in herself, now director of the Center for Religious Freedom of Freedom House. Unknowing, indifferent -- only a few months ago at a dinner, one of America's richest and pleasantest men and the headmaster of a noted private school, a minister, both said they knew nothing about the persecution of their fellow Christians. Governments know. They are silent for 30 billion pieces of trade silver. In 1994 Bill Clinton, breaking his pre-election promises, sold to China the American commitment to human rights for Chinese and Tibetans. What he got in return was the permission to continue business with China, a kindness that costs America $50 billion annually in export-import loss, strengthens China with American missile technique and escorts Beijing into U.S. politics. And it frees China from Administration action or denunciation for the arrests of more Christians who refuse to worship in government-regulated churches, and more long prison sentences to Chinese who believed the Communists might allow another political party. For the price America paid, read "Year of the Rat" by Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett 2d (Regnery) and learn as much as your stomach can bear. Tibet got something in return for the Clintonian assurances of Chinese reasonableness. It got a Chinese stonewall to the Dalai Lama's eagerness for talks, and more repression. But millions of American Christians backed by many Jews and Buddhists rebelled against the persecution. In China, in the Sudan, where Christians are slaughtered by government armies -- everywhere..."

James Gerstenzang 12/25/98 San Francisco Chronicle ".The battle over President Clinton's impeachment, nasty during the House debate, threatened yesterday to grow nastier as the president's trial looms in the Senate. The White House and its Democratic allies cried foul over unpublished and uncorroborated evidence collected by investigators about Clinton's private life. House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said senators should consider the material, in addition to the formal record compiled as part of the House debate that led to the president's impeachment. Senator Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, responded by calling DeLay ``a frustrated moral ayatollah.' .``He wants to impose his twisted morals on everyone else,'' Harkin said, adding that out of frustration of failing to gain popular support for his position, ``DeLay must be approaching an apoplectic state.'' ``We know what the evidence is'' against Clinton, said Harkin. ``What the Republicans are afraid of is (that) Clinton will win big.'' ."

The Hindu 12/28/98 "..Led by the Congress(I), the entire political spectrum has spoken with one voice against the unabated violence against the Christians in Gujarat. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Bajrang Dal have been severely criticized by almost all political parties and various citizens forums for the sangh parivar's current violent campaign against Christian organizations and educational institutions in Gujarat, especially in the Surat and Dangs districts. Even the BJP has found itself constrained to disapprove the attacks...The CPI(M) politburo in a statement said it was shocking that Christian missionary schools and churches in the BJP-ruled Gujarat continued to be targeted despite ``assurances to the contrary'' by Union Ministers. ``The inability to rein in the culprits smacks of a connivance of both the State and the Union Government in permitting, if not encouraging, such attacks'', it alleged. The politburo pointed out that after the ``earlier round'' of violence, the Union Home Minister, Mr. L. K. Advani had claimed that there was no law and order problem in Gujarat. He should now take note of what was happening and order ``necessary action'', it said squarely blaming the ``saffron brigade'' for the violence. It appealed to the people not to get provoked by attempts to fuel social tension.."

NY Times Elaine Sciolino 4/28/98 ".President Clinton on Monday criticized laws that automatically impose sanctions on countries for behavior that Americans find unacceptable. He said such legislation put pressure on the executive branch to "fudge," or overlook, violations so that it would not have to carry out the sanctions. Clinton made his unusually frank remarks during an appearance before a group of about 60 evangelical Christian leaders at the White House. They were meeting with Sandy Berger, the national security adviser, in the Roosevelt Room. Specifically, Clinton asked the group to withdraw its support for pending legislation that aims to reduce religious persecution overseas by imposing trade and aid sanctions on repressive regimes. Last week the House International Relations Committee approved, by 31 to 5, a bill that would impose export and aid sanctions on countries that endorse or permit violent attacks on religious believers. Among other provisions, the sanctions would ban imports from such countries, prohibit loans by multilateral institutions and make it easier for victims of religious persecution overseas to qualify for asylum or refugee status.."

Arab News 12/26/98 Fahmi Howaidi, Cairo ".How stupid was the American explanation for rushing to attack Iraq! It was that the U.S., out of respect for the feelings of Muslims, did not want to attack a Muslim country in Ramadan. Does this mean that America considers Ramadan a time in which the shedding of Muslim blood is not allowed? This seemed to be the explanation given by...Clinton in his statement attempting to justify the attack. His explanation was picked up and repeated by most of the commentators and so-called experts invited by Western television networks to comment on the situation. This American explanation implies that killing Muslims is forbidden only in Ramadan but allowed in other months. I cannot imagine which of the so-called experts convinced the Americans of this but it unfortunately reveals the shallow thinking and shameful ignorance of some decision makers regarding the Muslim world. ."

Underground Roman Catholic Bishop Su Zhimin spent 15 years in prison before his release in 1993; he was tortured throughout and then re-arrested shortly before President Jiang Zhemin's state visit to the United States in October, 1997 and remains in detention In 1997, Protestant leaders reported that about 40% of the inmates in labor camps in Henan Province are there for belonging to the Christian underground. In Henan Number One Labor Camp, for example, approximately 50 out of 126 inmates are imprisoned for underground church activities. On March 16, 1997, Peter Xu Yongze, Protestant leader with millions of followers, was arrested and jailed with seven others in Henan. Ambassador Sasser did not know what a house church is.

Foxnews.com 2/27/99 Lisa Holewa "...After a case that started with an arson fire in a waterfront mansion, the head of one of the nation's most influential black denominations was convicted Saturday on charges of swindling millions of dollars from companies seeking to do business with his followers. The Rev. Henry Lyons, president of the National Baptist Convention USA, also was found guilty of grand theft in the disappearance of almost $250,000 from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, money intended to rebuild burned black churches in the South.... "

Reuters 3/3/99 Freeper Brian Mosely "…An Arkansas minister was charged Wednesday with setting his church on fire more than two years ago in a case authorities at first thought was connected to a rash of blazes at African-American churches…."

Seattle Times 12/31/98 John Hanchette Gannett News Service ".More than 150 theology professors and ethics scholars have published a withering protest of President Clinton's "manipulation of religion and debasing of moral language" during the national discussion about his impeachment. .The controversial declaration was published just before Christmas in a book titled "Judgment Day at the White House" (edited by Gabriel Fackre; Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids, Mich.). The three-page declaration opens the book, which includes supporting essays from about a dozen of the 157 signers of the declaration, plus a half dozen rebuttals from opponents of the presidential criticism..Authors of the declaration - including seven signers from the liberal Princeton Theological Seminary, among them President Thomas Gillespie - were very direct in their accusations: "We believe that serious misunderstandings of repentance and forgiveness are being exploited for political advantage." .."We fear," wrote declaration signers, "that the religious community is in danger of being called upon to provide authentication for a politically motivated and incomplete repentance that seeks to avert serious consequences for wrongful acts." .. -- "The moral character of a people is more important than the tenure of a particular politician or the protection of a particular political agenda." ..Elshtain attacked White House spin that the impeachment case is based on something private: "This was no `discreet affair,' with the two principals doing their utmost to try to protect the feelings, moral concerns, and sensitivities of all involved. A small army of staffers was enlisted by the president to facilitate these assignations and an even larger number to cover matters up once things turned sour. Surely this has crossed the boundary into the public domain on every possible scale - ethical, legal, and political." Stackhouse went after counselors of ministerial silence: "I disagree with those who have refused to offer public criticism of his behavior because they think it may further disrupt the programs that they want him (Clinton) to advance or may give comfort to his political enemies. . . ."."

Imus In The Morning 1/7/99 Radio Show by Freeper paul in cape2 ".At approx. 8:15 AM e.s.t. Sen. John Kerry insulted the majority Party in the House of Representatives by equating them to the Ayatollah."

Centre Daily Times 1/3/99 Vincent Velotta ".In short, their goal is to promote a theory pointing out that American immorality has run amok. But to suggest that 250 million people are immoral is pushing the lever a bit too far. Our president, however, has provided them with the excuse they were seeking. Yet, the decent and moderate members of the Republican party have added to the problem by their unwillingness to confront these radicals and by allowing them to go unchallenged in their quest for control of the leadership. Whether it be the Taliban that now controls Afghanistan, or the religious zealots in Iran, or perhaps the inquisitors of old Spain, and now the American Taliban, they are all alike. These new American fanatics are no different. They are all from the same cloth. They all belong to the same club. Scorch the earth. Give no quarter. Never, never compromise. "We are the moral giants, we are the soldiers of God and in order to gain our ends, we will, with malicious intent, do our best to damage the relationship between the American people and what we consider to be their corrupt representatives in the Congress." .Moderate conservative Republicans, as well as all decent and fair-minded Americans, should wake up to the fact that there is indeed a group of ideological extremists, and they are bent on forcing their brand of radical politics down the throats of the American people. We Americans cannot allow these ideological extremists to enlarge their base by lulling us with such terms as "constitutional obligation" and "duty to God and country." We must look with skepticism upon their moralistic rhetoric of fairness and forgiveness and look at what they do and how they do it. We, as free Americans, must always be alert to those who would attempt to subvert or distort our political system. It may not always be to our liking, but it is all we have. Hitler did it in Germany over 60 years ago. Don't let it happen here, and don't you think it can't..."

Chicago Sun-Times 1/31/99 Dennis Byrne ".There he goes again: this pope guy instructing Americans about morality. Who does he think he is? ``Pope John Paul II--9th Century Thinker,'' proclaimed one sign held by a protester. ``Not everyone favors the political agenda that this man has for America,'' said Ellen Johnson, who was picketing the pope in St. Louis. But wait. With all this preaching about morality going on, now comes the Clinton administration talking about morality. Secretary of Defense William Cohen told a Downstate Springfield audience on Thursday that Americans have a moral obligation to treat its military better. Amen to that.."

Politically Incorrect 2/1/99 Freeper bobf reports ".Then, as James kept standing his ground, especially about the morality issues at work in Clinton's impeachment process, Mahr gave his worst, most reprehensible line... "Christians are PARASITES on the Republican party, and like PARASITES, they will KILL it!!" Our man James would not let that slide: "Christians have a right to gather, express their opinions, and VOTE, just like anyone else..."...evoking applause from the apparently liberal-tilted crowd..."

Newsmax 2/2/99 Freeper FISHHOG ".IMUS: Does a taped interview exist between Lisa Myers and this woman? RUSSERT: ah, er, ah, I'm not going to get into where we are. It's a work in progress about a whole lot of things. IMUS: In other words, the answer is yes. Thank you. RUSSERT: Well, ah, er, alright Mr. Falwell. IMUS: (laughing) No, I just wondered. RUSSERT: I mean, you know - there's a videotape available if you want that says President Clinton murdered people. I mean, put it on the screen.After Russert left, Imus said he doubted NBC would be a party to any Rapegate cover-up, then tossed this barb at his erstwhile friend: "It would be as if they set a truck on fire, or accused somebody of planting a bomb." The references were to past NBC News debacles involving a staged car explosion passed off as spontaneous and a false report fingering Richard Jewel as the Olympic Park bomber. ."

World Magazine Marvin Olasky 2/6/99 Freeper Stand Watch Listen ".Second, the disdainers clearly have no fear of the Lord, but they fear conservative Christians. That no member of the Clinton Administration has resigned in protest, and that congressional Democrats almost unanimously shamed themselves, can partly be explained by the moral bankruptcy of a once-great party, along with knowledge of how Clinton partisans harass those who cross them. But there's more: A lot of folks on the left truly fear that if Bill Clinton falls to those who believe in biblical right and wrong, they will be next. Hence their furious defense of the indefensible.."

Insight Magazine 2/22/99 James Lucier ".Progressive Democrats have a strategy of labeling GOP conservatives as extremists, but the ideology of the House Progressive Caucus may be the most extreme in Congress. Immediately after the impeachment of Bill Clinton last December the president called together a private gathering of supporters at the White House. Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, a denizen of the House Judiciary Committee and a member of the House's Progressive Caucus, emerged to tell the New York Post that Clinton himself told the meeting that "the Constitution was being trashed by Republican ex- tremists." And California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, another fiery-tongued Judiciary member who also is on the Progressive Caucus, said, "Bill and Hillary are the real targets, and the Republicans are the vehicles being used by the right-wing Christian Coalition extremists to direct and control our culture.".."

FoxNews Reuters 2/4/99 Freeper holly ".Calling the remark "pure nonsense,'' a Roman Catholic group Thursday asked President Clinton to apologize for saying Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler preached a "perverted form of Christianity.'' During a speech Thursday at the annual prayer breakfast hosted by members of Congress, Clinton observed that ''throughout history people have prayed to God to aid them in war. People have claimed repeatedly that it was God's will that they prevail in conflict.'' "I do believe that even though Adolf Hitler preached a perverted form of Christianity, God did not want him to prevail,'' Clinton said. William Donohue, president of the Catholic League, asked Clinton to apologize for what he called "a remarkably ignorant comment about Hitler and Christianity.'' "Anyone who has studied Hitler knows that this is pure nonsense,'' Donohue said in a statement issued from his New York office. "Hitler was a neo-pagan terrorist whose conscience was not informed by Christianity, but by pseudo-scientific racist philosophies,'' he said.."

National Post 2/5/99 Mark Steyn Freeper praise ".In other breakfast news, Mr. Clinton yesterday attended the annual National Prayer Breakfast, one of those opportunities to flaunt his faith he can never resist. The president's religion is an undemanding one. In one of the most striking examples of his ability to "compartmentalize," he strolled out of his church after the Easter service, waved his trusty Bible to the crowds, and then went back to the Oval Office to observe the resurrection with Monica in a more personal sense.."

Washington Times 2/5/99 Letters to the Editor June 7 - Arlington, VA ". During the past several months in the American press, the Democrats have frequently denounced the Republicans as Nazis due to their attempts to control runaway federal spending. How very ironic. I remember the Nazis. Let me share a little about them and recall some of their exploits. First of all, 'Nazi' was gutter slang for the verb 'to nationalize'. The Bider-Mienhoff gang gave themselves this moniker during their early struggles. The official title of the Nazi Party was 'The National Socialist Workers Party of Germany'. Hitler and the Brownshirts advocated the nationalization of education, health care, transportation, national resources, manufacturing, distribution and law enforcement. Hitler came to power by turning the working class, unemployed, and academic elite against the conservative republic... Being a Nazi was 'politically correct'. They called themselves 'The Children of the New Age of World Order' and looked down their noses at everyone else. As Hitler acquired more power, he referred to his critics as 'The Dark Forces of Anarchy and Hatred'.. The Nazi reign of terror began with false news reports on the Jews, Bohemians and Gypses who were said to be arming themselves to overthrow the 'New World Order'. Hitler demanded that all good people register their guns so that they wouldn't fall into the hands of 'terrorists and madmen'.Right-wing fanatics of the 'Old Order' who protested firearms registration were arrested by the S.S. and put in jail for 'fomenting hatred against the Government of the German people'. Then the Reichstag (government building) was blown up and Hitler ram-rodded an 'Emergency Anti-Terrorist Act' through Parliament that gave the Gestapo extraordinary powers. The leader then declared that for the well-being of the German people, all private firearms were to be confiscated by the Gestapo and the Wermotten (federal law enforcement and military.Public schools rewrote history and Hitler youth groups taught the children to report their parents to their teachers for anti-Nazi remarks. Such parents disappeared. Pagan animism became the state religion of the Third Reich and Christians were widely condemned as 'right wing fanatics'.. Evil was declared as being good, and good was condemned as being evil. World Order was coming and the German people were going to be the 'peacekeepers'. Yes, indeed, I remember the Nazis and they weren't Republicans, or 'right wing', or 'patriots' or 'militias'. They were Socialist monsters.."

Fox newswire / AP 2/6/99 ".An appeals court has overturned a rapist's 51-year prison sentence because a judge turned to the Bible while deciding his punishment. The Ohio 1st District Court of Appeals ruled Friday that James Arnett can return to court and seek a lesser sentence. Arnett, 33, pleaded guilty to raping and molesting the 8-year-old daughter of his fiancee. In handing down the 51-year sentence in January 1998, Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Melba Marsh Marsh referred to a Bible verse that says anyone who offends a child would be better off if "a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.''.."

Grassroot Republicans Website 2/7/99 Ken Carroll ".At least two groups composed of people vocally opposed to Clinton have been hit this week. Clinton is already trying to make life tougher on gun owners, bringing the National Rifle Association into a conflict, but it is his remarks regarding Christianity which are truly distressing. At an annual prayer breakfast hosted by congressional members, Clinton proclaimed that "Adolf Hitler preached a perverted form of Christianity." Not only is Clinton's statement historically inaccurate, but the context of his speech shows it aimed at Christian conservatives. Clinton said, " . . . throughout history people have prayed to God to aid them in war. People have claimed repeatedly that it was God's will that they prevail in conflict. I do believe that even though Adolf Hitler preached a perverted form of Christianity, God did not want him to prevail." Claiming what Hitler did, by any stretch of the imagination, could be referred to as "Christianity" whether it was "perverted" or not is extremely insulting to followers of Christ. The insinuation is that Christianity is not that far from Nazi beliefs. If you think those are innocent words, replace "Christian" with any other religion and see if it jogs your conscience a little. Would you openly tell a believer of any faith that Hitler preached a perverted form of their religion? Would you say it to a Moslem or a Jewish person? Clinton supporters may say it was a slip of the tongue, but that boat won't float. This is a man so careful in his phrasing and parsing of public words that he claims he misled and deceived people and still did not lie. Bill Clinton knew exactly what the ramifications of his words were and how this message would be taken. ."

The American Spectator 2/5/99 R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. ".It is interesting that the twentieth anniversary of the Rev. Jim Jones' Jonestown holocaust has come and gone, unremarked by such liberal thought leaders as Professor Alan Dershowitz and the Hon. Barney Frank. Located in the steamy jungles of Guyana, Jonestown was the site of the People's Temple, "an interracial sharing community" that originated in San Francisco. Over 900 of the Rev. Jones' followers died there late in 1978. At his orders they drank poison or had it imposed on them... Letters found in the vast killing field that had been the People's Temple, "dedicated against the evils of racism, hunger, and injustice," maundered on about his followers' dread of "the capitalist U.S." and their affection for "the beauty of Communism." None of the thousands of letters found among their paltry possessions betrayed any interest in Christianity or any other organized religion but in "Communism." Yet when their corpses were found I cannot recall any major news report calling them "Communists." As I say, the notion spread that they were some sort of Christian believers run amok..Midst the corpses other laudatory letters were found, from California's Governor Jerry Brown, Congresswoman Bella Abzug, Senator Mike Gravel, and from Mrs. Jimmy Carter, who wrote from the White House that "your comments about Cuba are helpful." ."

Florida Times-Union 2/9/99 Freeper newsman ".Though the Senate will likely acquit President Clinton this week, he'll be relegated to the status now held by O.J. Simpson, said the Rev. Jerry Falwell, founder of the Moral Majority. Falwell, in Jacksonville to speak at a pastors conference at First Baptist Church, spared little in assessing Clinton's impact on the nation's character. "He's lowered the moral bar in this country more than Hollywood, the television industry and the drug industry combined," he said. "Can future leaders lift the bar?"."

Time Daily 2/9/99 Frank Pellegrini ". Senate Democrats know the verdict they want: Not guilty, with an explanation. But when to do the explaining? The deliberations set to span the next two days will be held behind closed doors - proponents of an open session admitted Tuesday that they were six votes (and one majority leader) short of the 67 needed... For Democrats, censure remains the mother of all political flak jackets. Though they've already successfully cast Republicans as the repressive party of the Ayatollah, they're not particularly eager to be the party of Oval Office sex, either. .."

New York Post 2/10/99 Jack Newfield ".IT IS now clear that a few right-wing Republican senators are trying to block a tough censure of President Clinton. This is moral absolutism and irrational partisanship run amok. It doesn't make sense politically, constitutionally or morally. It is the kind of warped reasoning that characterizes the fundamentalist, Hezbollah faction of the GOP.."

Catholic World News 2/11/99 ".The Ohio American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in federal court this week seeking a court order to have four public schools remove outdoor monuments that include the Ten Commandments..."

Salon Magazine 2/2/1999 GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ Freeper imdoug ".but Carlos Fuentes took it further by asking the president who he thought of as his enemies. His reply was immediate and abrupt: "My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism.".."

People for the American Way 2/11/99 Freeper Bob J ".People For the American Way Foundation President Carole Shields issued the following statement today in response to the Rev. Jerry Falwell's assertion that the popular cartoon character, Tinky Winky the Teletubby, is gay: "Jerry Falwell is no longer taken seriously in the political arena, so now he has to go after cartoon characters. If Tinky Winky the Teletubby cannot measure up to Mr. Falwell's standards of morality, than who among us can?.." and ".People For the American Way and its affiliated PAC, People For the American Way Voters Alliance, today launched national voter education and mobilization campaigns aimed at ending the Religious Right's occupation of Congress. Relying on a mix of TV, grassroots organizing and education, the $5 million campaigns will give voice to the millions of Americans alarmed by the Republican impeachment trial and other radical, Religious-Right-driven initiatives in Congress over the past four years. The Voters Alliance unveiled its first TV ad in the campaign today. "Impeachment was the catalyst that shocked and angered voters," said PFAW President Carole Shields. "But the Religious Right's agenda on so many other issues also is of paramount concern. The same Religious Right that drove the impeachment train is trying to force Congress to adopt vouchers, pass a captive audience school prayer amendment and roll back civil rights for women and minorities.".."

US Newswire 2/17/99 Freeper Brian Mosely ".``The kind of raw anti-Catholic bigotry contained in Ted Turner's remarks is something we had all hoped was a relic of the last century. ``To begin to repair the damage, Ted Turner must only retract his remarks but also issue a full and complete apology to the Holy Father and all American Catholics. This is the worst form of religious bigotry,'' said Bauer. Bauer also charged that Turner insulted all American Christians and Jews when he belittled the Ten Commandments, saying the commandments are ``a little out of date. If you're only going to have 10 rules, I don't know if (prohibiting) adultery should be one of them.'' ."

Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights Press Release 2/17/99 ".TV-mogul Ted Turner received an award yesterday at the 27th annual meeting of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association. According to a report in the Washington Times, he drew laughter and applause with remarks about sex, the Ten Commandments and Pope John Paul II. Turner, who has five children, commented that everyone should promise to have no more than two children. He said he came to this conclusion years ago after talking to doomsayer Paul Ehrlich; this was after Turner contributed to the "population explosion." He also dubbed the Ten Commandments "a little out of date," adding that "If you're only going to have 10 rules, I don't know if prohibiting adultery should be one of them." Of the pope, Turner showed his idea of ethnic humor: "Ever seen a Polish mine detector?" He then said the pope should "get with it. Welcome to the 20th century." Catholic League president William Donohue took note: "Ted Turner embarrassed himself yesterday with his silly remarks, though it is doubtful he even recognizes what he did. Any man who thinks that the pope needs to `get with it' while quoting Paul Ehrlich is a true embarrassment. Thirty years ago Ehrlich predicted that pesticide-induced cancers would soon cause life expectancy in the U.S. to plummet to 42 years. `If I were a gambler,' he said back then, `I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.' If that wasn't bad enough, in 1980 Ehrlich wagered a $1,000 bet with economist Julian Simon over the availability of scarce commodities in the year 1990; Simon collected the money in 1991. But no matter, Ehrlich is the same guy that Turner continues to quote as a reliable source. "."

CNS 2/1/99 Charles Colson Freeper hope ".At the National Prayer Breakfast this month, President Clinton described how hard his administration had worked to pass the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998--a law designed to fight the torture and murder of people of faith around the world. A few days later, the president's budget was unveiled. How much money did the president earmark to enforce the Religious Freedom Act? Not one plug nickel.."

Insight Magazine 3/15/99 Aimee Howd Freeper Stand Watch Listen "...But the American people went ballistic when President Clinton took this idea to its logical conclusion and proudly displayed a sample national health-care I.D. card during the nationally televised summary of his health-care plan in 1993. Few consumers could stomach the thought of allowing even the most altruistic federal bureaucrat to assign them a "unique health identifier" -- a computerized code that could be used not only to track the medical records of every citizen from birth, but potentially could link those records to financial data, tax information, employment history, educational databases and anything else of interest to a would-be Big Brother...."

newsmax 3/4/99 Schlafly "…I'm fed up with the liberals telling me that I can't be judgmental about crimes and sins, even when committed by the President. We have every right to be judgmental, and the liberals have their nerve trying to dictate a "Thou shalt not be judgmental" commandment. I'm fed up with the liberals telling me I must be nonpartisan. Do we have political freedom in America or don't we? … I'm fed up with the liberals imposing their values on us about perjury, along with their absurd caveat that "everybody lies about sex." If it's just "he says, she says" and everybody lies, we should toss out all the sexual harassment cases, enjoy sex in the workplace, and then lie about it…I'm fed up with the liberals blaming the Republicans for Clinton's impeachment and trial…. I'm fed up with the liberals dictating their new moral imperative that we must "move on" and "become moderate," or else they will label us "extremist." Who gave them the right to enforce a new law of moderation and extremism and to brand people with their judgments? ….I'm fed up with the liberals telling us we have a moral obligation to spend American blood and money in ethnic conflicts all around the world. Where did the interventionist liberals get any authority to impose their foreign-policy morality on us? ….I'm fed up with the liberals saying it is OUR moral duty to spend OUR money for THEIR pet projects (it's called taxes) in order to provide benefits to special constituencies that are expected to vote liberal…. I'm fed up with the liberals and the teachers unions imposing their Whole Language, School-to-Work, "comprehensive" sex education, and diversity curricula on other people's children. The educrats won't even allow parents a choice for phonics, abstinence classes, or traditional academic basics. I'm fed up with the liberals telling me I have to respect their gods: the Presidency and his "wag the dog" foreign policy, the Imperial Judiciary and its activist decisions, and the public schools with their failed methods. Who gave the liberals the authority to substitute those gods for God and His Ten Commandments? …"

Rep. Traficant, Democrat 6/19/98: "Mr. Speaker, Mildred Rosario, a sixth grade teacher in the Bronx, was fired. Mildred was fired for attempting to comfort her students over the drowning loss of a fellow classmate by simply saying he was in heaven. Mildred was fired for saying, I quote, he was in heaven. Unbelievable. In America teachers can pass out condoms in school. Teachers can pass out needles. Teachers can even have forums and discussions on devil worship. But in America teachers cannot even mention God. Beam me up. "

CNS Bruce Sullivan 8/12/98 "A Christian pastor and four men were handing out religious leaflets last week in a section of Las Vegas frequented by drug dealers and street walkers, when they were arrested, jailed, and strip-searched by the police. They were charged with blocking the sidewalk, then handcuffed, and thrown into a paddy wagon as denizens of "Crack Alley," which is what that part of Fremont Street is nicknamed, watched.." 'Sing your Christian hymns now,'" Robinson says one of the police officers said. "They compared us to the folks in Waco," Robinson told CNS referring to the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. ."

Global Intelligence Update 11/9/98 ".The past week has demonstrated that Bill Clinton is the most extraordinary politician of our time. He took a draw in the 1998 by-elections in which the Republicans retained control of both houses of Congress, and managed to define it as an overwhelming defeat for the Republicans and a major personal victory for himself. The generally accepted consensus was that the elections ended any chance of an impeachment of the President. As pure icing on the cake, the elections destroyed his archenemy, Newt Gingrich and with it, redefined the Republican Party. The President achieved his tremendous victory by defining the basic issue as whether having sex with Monica Lewinsky was or was not an impeachable offense..There are two domestic political results here. The Christian Right sees itself as engaged in a struggle for the cultural soul of the United States. They have just been handed an overwhelming defeat.. The second political result is the effective collapse of feminism as a political force.. The feminists have now created the Clinton Test for sexual harassment. Unwanted sexual advances, actual exposure of private parts, and taking advantage of a powerful office to seduce young women, do not constitute sexual harassment if you support the feminist agenda.. Thus we will make an extreme but we think defensible statement: the cultural wars that have defined much of the nation's politics since about 1980 are over. Both sides have lost and have lost decisively. .It is interesting to note that issues like the power of the IMF are increasingly motivating the Christian Right as much as cultural issues. There is a deep and growing distrust on the part of the Christian Right of the trend toward multilateral solutions, like NAFTA, IMF, UN, WTO and so on, that the Democrats are so fond of."

New York Times 11/8/98 Maureen Dowd ".There's a new spirit wafting through the land. Hey, baby, we're talking about love power. The voters have chosen the lovers over the haters. The meanies with the jangly names -- Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, Lauch Faircloth, Fob James, "B-1" Bob Dornan -- are toast. So are the guys like Al D'Amato, who sneered and jeered and used ethnic and anatomical epithets. So are the Christian zealots. And obsessive special prosecutors. The Democratic lover boys, like Bill Clinton, and the Republican preachers of compassion, like the Bush boys, are being embraced.."

Jewish Task Force 3/10/99 "…We were all taught to believe that major corporations are run by conservative Republicans. This myth has been refuted on numerous occasions on this web site. The multinational corporations, who have no loyalty whatsoever to the United States, use bogus tax-free foundations to fund socialist groups that are working to destroy this country. For instance, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is one of the most evil anti-American, anti-white, anti-Semitic and anti-Israel groups in existence. The ACLU is dominated by people like attorney Alan Dershowitz, who recently boasted that he would have represented Adolf Hitler and gotten him off. ere are some of the ACLU's surprising benefactors: the Carnegie Corporation - $1,000,000; the Clark Foundation - $975,000; the Ford Foundation - $2,265,000; the MacArthur Foundation - $300,000; the Mertz-Gilmore Foundation - $140,000; and the Rockefeller Foundation - $110,000. These are only partial contributions from these foundations from 1993 to 1995. The total figures are much larger….Immediately after the ACLU announced that they would represent neo-Nazi scum who wanted to march in Skokie, Illinois as a provocation to that town's several thousand concentration camp survivors, Lear responded by making a $250,000 contribution to the ACLU which he averred was in direct response to the ACLU's pro-Nazi stance. Lear himself formed a Bolshevik group called People for the "American" Way. Of course, there is nothing "American" about this hideous Marxist organization. Its main focus is attacking all attempts to inspire religious faith and spirituality in the lives of Americans. Any time someone suggests placing a Christian or Jewish symbol on public property or even private corporate property, Lear's group has a fit. They proclaim such symbols to be "un-American" because of the so-called separation of church and state. Lear's despicable People for the "American" Way has received the following curious support: the Carnegie Corporation - $200,000; the Clark Foundation - $150,000; the Joyce Foundation - $50,000; the MacArthur Foundation - $25,000; the Mertz-Gilmore Foundation - $35,000; and the Rockefeller Foundation - $75,000. Why do these multinational corporate giants back left-wing groups that are undermining America's moral and spiritual values? Because an America devoid of values is easier to control when you are a small clique of mega-billionaires who want no competition, massive profits and total power. People with values, especially religious ones, will educate their children and raise strong families who will ultimately become competitors in the free-market arena…."

Christian Citizen 3/99Robert Holland - Richmond Times Dispatch Freeper Stand Watch Listen "…Armed with backing from private foundations and the federal government, advocates of Hillary Clinton’s It-Takes-a-Village ideology are beginning to implement a plan for cradle-to-grave tracking of the newborns of first-time parents. Part of the scheme entails sending agents into private homes to "train" parents for up to 50 visits annually per family. Expectant parents are enlisted by being asked to sign permission forms at the hospital, where amid all the excitement of a first birth, they may not be aware of the implications for their privacy and parental rights......Information that the agents collect from families will be put in a nationwide computerized system called the Program Information Management System (PIMS), which will contain medical and psychological entries and observations on family relationships.....Eventually the information in a comprehensive, permanent record could be shared with employers when an individual applies for a job…"

Drudge 3/14/99 "…AID is funding programs that endorse or legitimize what amounts to witchcraft The paper is reporting that Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a Feb. 8 letter to Secretary of State Albright that the committee had spent a lot of time recently reviewing U.S. aid programs to Haiti and it has found that US taxpayers are "funding programs that endorse or legitimize what amounts to witchcraft." Helms cited as the basis for his concern a recent exchange between U.S. AID and the Foreign Relations Committee, in which AID was asked if it provided "any assistance to any group, like IPPF's affiliate PROFAMIL, which, according to IPPF's 1995 Annual Report, undertook 'a campaign to reach voodoo followers with sexual and reproductive health information... by performing short song-prayers about STDs sexually transmitted diseases and the benefits of family planning during voodoo ceremonies.'" AID acknowledged providing $295,000 from April 1998 to March 1999 to PROFAMIL. The agency said many AID "partners and implementing organizations use this important social network voodoo ceremonies as the medium for disseminating health sector messages and information."…"

American Family Association Center for Law & Policy 3/15/99 "… Today, four members of the Adams County Ministerial Alliance filed papers in federal court seeking to intervene in the lawsuit challenging the placement of monuments displaying the Ten Commandments at four high schools in Adams County, Ohio. The ministers, Kenneth W. Johnson, Thomas D. Claibourne, Ronald D. Stephens, and Douglas W. Ferguson, say that the Ministerial Alliance was responsible for erecting the monuments and continues to maintain them. …The lawsuit was filed by the ACLU on February 9, 1999, on behalf of a disgruntled citizen, Berry Baker, who was denied permission to erect his own display, two six foot tall phallic symbols with a plaque explaining that they represent an ancient religion. Mr. Baker had previously praised the School Board for its "leadership role in an apparent spiritual and cultural revival." "Mr. Baker is apparently upset, not that Adams County is displaying a religious symbol, but that it is not displaying his religious symbol," commented Mr. Crampton. …."

Catholic World News 3/17/99 Freeper marshmallow "… Six people have been killed in fighting in the southern Philippines this week between Catholic and Muslim villagers, a provincial governor said on Wednesday…." NEW DELHI Over 200 Christian houses were torched Tuesday night in Gajapati district of eastern Orissa state that has seen several cases of anti-Christian violence including the arson death of an Australian missionary and his two sons in January…." AKARTA A group of hundreds of Muslims attacked a police station and burned vehicles in a province of Indonesia on Wednesday after a group of foreigners tried to distribute Bibles and then sought refuge in the station…."

Reuters 3/17/99 "…The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco has had it with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The ``order'' of drag performance artists who, clad in nun's habits and vibrant face-paint, have shocked and amused the city for 20 years is being damned by Catholic leaders for planning to stage a public celebration of their troupe's anniversary on Easter Sunday. Archdiocese spokesman Maurice Healy said Wednesday allowing a group which ``mocks the Catholic Church'' to close a public street on the holiest day of the Christian year was just as reprehensible as ``allowing a group of neo-Nazis to close a city street for the celebration on the Jewish Feast of Passover.'' ``In terms of offensiveness, it's very similar,'' he told Reuters…."

Conservative News Service 3/18/99 William Lind "…Once again, the U.S. government is siding with Moslems against Christians. The place is again the Balkans, where we are supporting the Islamic Albanians' grab for Kosovo, the historic heartland of the Christian Serbs. We did the same thing in nearby Bosnia, where we again supported Moslems against the Serbs, including by bombing Serbian forces. I wonder how many American Christians have thought about the fact that their defense dollars now go to attacking other Christians on behalf of Islam? Over and over again, the U.S. government has showed a bias against Christianity and in favor of Islam. In Africa, where thousands of Christians have been martyred at the hands of Islamics, our government has maintained a careful silence. The same is true in Indonesia, where much of the recent rioting has been directed against Christians. Perhaps the most grotesque example is Saudi Arabia, a country we fought to defend against Iraq in the Gulf War and also a country where anyone who converts to Christianity is beheaded. (In contrast, Iraq's current foreign minister is a Christian). The U.S. State Department is so anxious to kiss the Saudis' robes that it banned Christian religious services at the U.S. consulate in Jeddah. Those services had given American citizens in Saudi Arabia a place to worship. All Christian services are illegal in Saudi Arabia, but the consulate is legally American soil, so the Saudis could not stop them. The consulate offered weekly Protestant and Mormon services as well as Catholic Mass…."

The Oklahoman 3/25/99 "...BILL Clinton didn't want to bomb Iraqis "during the holy month of Ramadan" -- but he's raining bombs during the Great and Holy Lent, a sacred time for the Orthodox who comprise much of the Serbian population. That note came yesterday from a clergyman in Texas. His point hits both U.S. policy and Clinton's lack of discernable principles...."

Hellenic Orthodox Traditionalist Church of America 3/23/99 Metropolitan Archbishop PAVLOS to Clinton "...Again I write to you as a Christian and as an American. Sir, we are poised on the brink of disaster, a disaster that is manifold in its dimensions and character. As I expressed to you in my previous letter this imminent and unprovoked attack against Yugoslavia is immoral. Even the trepidation alone that we have instilled in the people of Yugoslavia is a horror. The fact that this is exactly one of our intentions is offensive. Legally speaking our country is heading toward the perpetration of a crime of international proportions. We are acting without a UN mandate. We are violating the very charter of the NATO Pact. NATO is acting without a UN mandate. We are violating every international law governing respect for the sovereignty of nations. We are acting without the mandate of the American people. Do the American people truly believe our national interests are at stake? A recent CBS Radio broadcast quoted a poll that said 50% of Americans cannot find Kosovo on a map! Is this the well-informed constituency that gives us a mandate to attack Yugoslavia? I ask again by what authority do we act? Is it the authority of the law of God, the law of our country, or international law? ..."

Washington Post 3/31/99 Peter Slevin "…The Internal Revenue Service properly stripped tax breaks from a New York church that opposed candidate Bill Clinton in full-page newspaper advertisements during the 1992 campaign, a federal judge here ruled yesterday. U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman decided that the IRS acted lawfully when it took away tax-exempt status from The Church at Pierce Creek in Vestal, N.Y. He dismissed the church's claims that the IRS violated religious freedoms and engaged in selective prosecution. Churches that claim exemption from taxation cannot take sides in an election campaign, the federal tax code states. The IRS concluded after a two-year investigation that the nondenominational Christian church had done just that and no longer was entitled to the exemption. The case centered on a full-page advertisement that appeared in USA Today and the Washington Times four days before the 1992 general election. The advertisement said, "Bill Clinton is promoting policies that are in rebellion to God's laws."…"

http://www.the700club.org/cwn/980807.asp 8/7/98 Freeper DonMorgan "…Meanwhile, Sudanese Christians in Africa are suffering from the twin afflictions of persecution and famine, and that's not all. They still face the problem of slavery. Stan Jeter brings us this brief update. Stan Jeter, reporter Human life is cheap in the Sudan. First, a bitter civil war and now a spreading famine that's put over 2 1/2 million people at risk of starvation. Christian Freedom International recently sponsored a relief flight to one of the areas overlooked by the United Nations' aid efforts. But then they found another tragedy. In this slave market are many Christian women and children kidnapped from their villages in the south by Muslim raiders from the north. Some are branded so they can't escape their masters. Village leaders keep records of their kidnap victims. There are thousands still missing. On this visit, CFI's Jim Jacobson brought enough cash to redeem 12 slaves and reunite them with their families. The price: about $100 each….."

The Jerusalem Post 3/28/99 Thomas O’Dwyer Freeper bessellieu "…At the end of the ceremony the Clintons plunged in among the guests, spreading that famous empathy with unforced glee. When he met Clinton, Marquez had the nerve to ask him directly who he thought his enemies were. The writer reported that Clinton's reply was immediate and abrupt: "My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism."…"

Reuters 3/29/99 "…A national Catholic organization Monday called for a boycott of San Francisco, saying the city was promoting intolerance by allowing a group of drag queen ''nuns'' to hold a street party on Easter Sunday. ``Many people think that San Francisco is the city of tolerance. But it is a lie -- an outrageous lie,'' William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, said in a half-page advertisement taken in the San Francisco Chronicle. The league, which has 350,000 members and fights what it sees as anti-Catholic prejudice, said San Francisco's plan to allow the ``Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence'' to close a public street on April 4 for a party to celebrate their 20th anniversary was tantamount to an attack on Catholic faith ``Our objection to the 'Sisters' does not center on men dressing as nuns: it centers on their obscene assaults on the Eucharist, the very nucleus of Catholicism. That is why we are outraged,'' the league advertisement said…. The group says it is not anti-Catholic but simply irreverent, and that it exists primarily as a fund-raiser for nonprofit organizations which serve the community…."

Washington Post 4/1/99 Press Conference "...From a news briefing yesterday by White House spokesman Joe Lockhart: Q: The president's fellow Democrat, Mayor Willie Brown of San Francisco, has just requested a group of actors who mock nuns and the Catholic sacraments to cancel their plans to do this on Easter. Does the president agree? And will he ask Mr. [James C.] Hormel, his nominee to be ambassador to Luxembourg, to join Mayor Brown in asking these people, who Hormel saluted, not to do this on Easter? Mr. Lockhart: I -- it would take 10 minutes for me to unravel all of the deception that's in that question. So we'll do it another time. [Cross talk.] Q: Do you think it's appropriate, Joe? You don't want to speak to this? A: This is -- you know, that sort of ad hominem attack on Mr. Hormel has been -- Q: Ad hominem? A: -- has come from various sources over the last year. It has no basis in fact -- Q: No, he saluted these people -- A: It has no basis in fact -- Q: It does, Joe! A: Well, having -- Q: We've been reporting on it. A: Well, having spoken to Mr. Hormel directly on this subject, it has no basis in fact...."

Conservative News Org 4/1/99 Scott Hogenson "...The American Psychological Association is trying to correct what it called misrepresentations of the organization's positions on child sexual abuse and the findings of a report on the topic published by the organization. But the association appears to be selective in who it publicly criticizes for their use of the report. The APA found itself at the center of a burgeoning controversy after publishing the report A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples, which concluded that child sexual abuse "does not cause intense harm on a pervasive basis," among victims.....Rhea Farberman, Director of Communications for the American Psychological Association, told CNS that the organization's publication of the report in the APA's Psychological Bulletin, does not constitute an endorsement or validation of its findings. The APA states that "sexual abuse of children is wrong and harmful to its victims," and the 155,000 member association published a clarification of its official position on child sexual abuse following Schlessinger's broadcast, noting that the findings of the report "are being misreported by some in the media."...While Schlessinger is being criticized for real or perceived misinterpretations of scientific fact and conclusion, the APA is taking no public action regarding the use of its published documents by one particular group which promotes an agenda of sex between adults and children.... The North American Man Boy Love Association cites the APA-published study and other research documents as justification for sex between children and adults, saying that sexual encounters between men and boys "are often quite positive and beneficial for the participants, regardless of their ages," according to the group's Internet web site. ..."

Associated Press 3-31-99 Karen Testa "...Boca Raton can tear down crosses, stars of David and other monuments on grave sites in the city's municipal cemetery because the decorations are not essential for religious practice, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. The ruling was believed to be the first of its kind in the nation, and the first under Florida's Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1998, which says governments cannot impose a ``substantial burden'' on people's freedom of religious expression. Judge Kenneth Ryskamp said that families who decorated the final resting places of their loved ones with religious symbols, plants, stones and other items will not have their religious rights trampled if they cannot keep the decorations...."

WorldNetDaily 4/2/99 Kaye Corvett Freeper Mercuria "...When a pipe bomb package blew up at a U.S. Postal Service center in Dallas last Sunday, to many it signified the growing persecution of Christians both home and abroad. The target of the blast was one of the world's most controversial televangelists, John Hagee, pastor of San Antonio's 17,000-member Cornerstone Church and seen by millions on TV around the globe each week...."

Wall Street Journal 4/2/99 "...Remember the old Hollywood films like "Ben-Hur" and "The Robe," which would always include a scene with a sneering Roman emperor or centurion spitting out the word "Christian" as though it were a slur? In those days the intended effect was irony, a reminder to audiences that there was a time when the Christian faith so publicly honored in American life was looked upon by authorities as low and unnatural. As Christians the world over Friday commemorate the passion and crucifixion of their Lord, it may be a good moment to reflect on the caricature that has come to dominate public treatment of America's predominant faith. Clearly, Americans continue to rank among the most religious peoples in the world. Year after year the Bible outsells all other books. More Americans go to church each Sunday than watch the Super Bowl. Yet our public squares are increasingly dominated by elites who look upon Christian expression in much the same way Hollywood's centurions did in the 1950s and 1960s. Just this February, for example, Ted Turner used a Washington forum to mock the Ten Commandments, particularly the injunction against adultery, a return performance from a man who has in the past dissed Christianity as "a religion for losers." He is not alone. In a speech at Harvard last April, Sidney Blumenthal denounced Hickman Ewing, then one of Kenneth Starr's deputies, as "a religious fanatic," evidently on the grounds that Mr. Ewing helped found a church where he worships and occasionally preaches. During her "20/20" interview with the independent counsel himself, Diane Sawyer wrinkled her nose in disbelief when she asked Mr. Starr to confirm reports that "you jog and sing hymns and pray" -- the last two evidently constituting pretty serious misdemeanors if not high crimes in the ABC canon. Later still, a "CBS Evening News" report on the selection of House impeachment managers noted ominously that "all 13 are white, all 13 males, all 13 Christians." As the CBS reporter understood, this wasn't just a description. It was an indictment. The distinguishing feature here is not the contempt but the license to express it in an American milieu otherwise disposed to hypersensitivity. When Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott made offensive remarks about blacks a few years ago, baseball suspended her for a year. But Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, who spent this past weekend with Fidel Castro, confined baseball's disapproval of Mr. Turner, who owns the Atlanta Braves, to a $25,000 fine, not likely to be much felt by a man donating a billion dollars to the U.N. Ditto for Mr. Blumenthal. Though forced to apologize, the White House aide retained his post. As the syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote, Mr. Blumenthal's crack "caused barely a ripple -- nothing like the uproar that routinely accompanies a personal insult regarding, say, race or gender or sexual orientation."..."

The Charlotte Observer 4/5/99 Michelle Locke "...Fishnet was big, heels were high and emotions ran deep as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence -- drag queens dressed as nuns -- threw a 20th anniversary bash here Sunday despite criticism from Roman Catholics that their rituals smacked of heresy. The typically irreverent street party -- which featured bands, Easter bonnets and a ``Hunky Jesus'' beauty contest -- infuriated church officials, who said holding the parody on Easter Sunday was like neo-Nazis partying on Passover..... ``City government has gone out of its way to associate itself with this ridicule and blasphemy,'' Archbishop William Levada wrote Friday in Catholic San Francisco, a church newspaper. Some officials, including Mayor Willie Brown, then tried to rescind the permit. It didn't work, but Ammiano is expected to meet with Levada in a peace talk of sorts...."

AP 4/6/99 "…A federal judge who has been overruled twice has again thrown out a lawsuit by an atheist who wants the Ten Commandments removed from a courtroom. Richard Suhre sued over marble tablets displayed on a wall at the Haywood County courthouse four years ago, claiming they violate his constitutional right to freedom of religion. U.S. District Judge Lacy Thornburg dismissed the lawsuit on Friday…."

The Times of India 4/8/99 Freeper Jai "…It is regrettable that the US-led bombing campaign of Yugoslavia is continuing despite Belgrade's unilateral cessation of hostilities against militants of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Sunday is Easter for Orthodox Christians and several countries, including Greece and the Vatican, had called on NATO to halt its airstrikes in deference to the religious holiday. The US, however, has no intention of stopping the bombing . . ."

4/10/99 Voice of Russia Freeper Thanatos "…We are addressing the servicemen by the NATO policy-makers to action against Yugoslavia/ It is a shame that you’ve been ordered to continue bombing Yugoslavia on Easter. You are committing a serious sin. Your bombs and missiles are killing people just as they are getting ready to celebrate Easter either this week or in a week. Why should this be? Just because NATO leaders and US President Clinton have refused to meet calls by Pope John Paul II and Russian Patriarch Alexiy for suspension of attacks during Easter. Neither the NATO leaders nor President Clinton are likely to be worried if this Easter happens to be the last in your lives. They don’t care if your missiles and bombs turn Easter into a nightmare and spell death for men, women and children of Yugoslavia. Use your brains…"

The Nando Times - AP 4/17/99 Amir Shah "...The Taliban religious militia on Saturday warned President Clinton that criticizing Afghanistan's human rights record damages the countries' relations. "This criticism will only be bad for relations between Afghanistan and the United States," said a Foreign Ministry statement. Clinton has been a strong critic of the Taliban's treatment of women and last month said the United States wouldn't recognize the Taliban while the repression against women continued. "Any criticism regarding Afghanistan's Muslims and women's rights should come from a Muslim," the statement said. "This Clinton is not a Muslim and does not know anything about Islam and Muslims."..."

Houston Chronicle 4/15/99 Eric Berger ".... U.S. House Majority Whip Tom DeLay said Thursday that two leading mental health associations' writings could make pedophilia more acceptable. Two publications, one printed in 1994 and the other in 1998, have stirred controversy for months, but the associations' representatives have consistently said pedophilia is harmful and wrong. However, DeLay, R-Sugar Land, said the fourth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, considered a primary tool of physicians, suggests that a pedophile could be diagnosed as "psychologically normal." "Their new definition dumbs it down to where someone who molests a child may not be considered a pedophile," said Emily Miller, DeLay's press secretary. DeLay also took issue with an article in the June 1998 issue of the American Psychological Association's highly regarded Psychological Bulletin. He contends that the authors suggest that pedophilia might not always constitute sexual abuse. Talk-show radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and many of her listeners, have also been critical of the article. Other commentators have labeled it as "pedophilia propaganda," saying there is no way children can have consensual sex with adults...."

WorldNetDaily 4/21/99 Joseph Farah "...We'll be sorting out the details of the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado for days and weeks to come. Much of the reationary spin will be familliar. We've got to get rid of guns, they'll say. As if the dead-eyed, cold-blooded teen killers in this case had somehow legally obtained and carried their weapons to school. Then there will be those who blame society -- the culture. Ceretainly there's something here. America has become desensitized to violence. Certainly the entertainment media bear some responsibility. Certainly the video games, the hideous rap music, the TV and the movies have some effect..... But this is still America. There is no place in America for confiscating guns from law-abiding people, and there is no place for government-imposed censorship. It doesn't work. It's un-American. And it doesn't address the real root problems -- the kind that trigger Columbine High massacres. The real problem is that in America we have forgotten the concepts of personal responsibility, individual rights and the sanctity of life. In fact, it's not a matter of forgetting. There has been a wholesale effort to obliterate these values from the soul of our nation. We forbid kids from praying at school. We teach them that they evolved spontaneously from a singe-cell organisms in the swamp. We immerse them in a grossly polluted moral ecosystem. We break up their families. We telll them there are no absolutes, no right and wrong, ultimate truth. It's just amazing with that recipe that there aren't more Columbine Highs. And, tragically, I think there will be, unless America wakes up and recognizes how we have betrayed our children -- cheated them, deceived them, broken their hearts...."

Total Request Live (MTV) 4/21/99 Freeper incognito "…Here (paraphrasing) is what he next told MTV's interviewer Chris Connelly: You were eventually able to escape. What about your friend? Student (didn't get his name): He ... killed her. He walked up to her and asked her if she believed in God. She said yes and then he blew her head off. …"

Christian Science Monitor 4/22/99 Ron Scherer Freeper Cincinatus "…Parents with children in voucher programs generally are happy with the results. One of the main reasons: There are rarely incidences of violence in the parochial schools. "When we looked at the Catholic schools in and around Los Angeles and compared them to the public school system, we found the main reason the Catholic schools had virtually no violence is because they treat the smallest incident as a big thing," says Mr. Seder…"

Pat Buchanan 4/21/99 "…"At Littleton, yesterday, America got a glimpse of the last stop on that train to hell she boarded decades ago when we declared that God is dead, and that each of us is his or her own god who can make up the rules as we go along. I pray for the families of those who lost loved ones."…"

Larry King Live 4/21/99 Freeper murron reports "…Here is a fact that is getting very little media play. According to this girl's account, these killers were looking for Christians. When her friend stated that she was, in fact, a Christian, she wa promptly shot and killed…."

Freeper Steve_Seattle 4/21/99 on Larry Kind Live "…Larry didn't follow up on the "killed because she was a Christian" angle, but later vigorously pursued the "killed because he was black" angle with another student. The media just doesn't get it - there is a lot of hate directed at traditional Christians in this country, and the media can't see it even when it's right in front of their face, possibly because they are among the worst offenders…."

CNN / TRANSCRIPTS 4/22/99 Freeper AmericanInTokyo "...LARRY KING: Where was she, Mickie? MICKIE CAIN: She was in the -- in a classroom, I believe, and she ended up standing up for the greatest thing ever. She had the courage to turn her life around, and she went straight up after she started trusting Christ. And when I came to Columbine the year after she left, she lent a hand to me when I was kind of going crooked, and she completely, completely stood up for God when the killers asked her if there was anyone who had faith in Christ. She spoke up and they shot her for it. And that is the most brave thing anyone could ever do, and I -- I want that memory to live on and her example for that. And she was so fun loving and amazingly open hearted, and -- you could come to her with anything, and she accepted your darkest secret with open arms...."

Eye on Conservatism 4/22/99 Robert Yoho "...Now that the last bodies have been moved from Columbine High School, I find myself wondering if these senseless tragedies could altogether be avoided if God was freely welcomed into the schools on a daily basis. Why does it take a tragedy to acknowledge our reliance on God and the need for Him in our lives? Why does it take the introduction of bodybags for us to turn to God? Why does it take gunfire before our school children can bow their heads and pray? Nobody at the memorial services worries about the abominable crime of invoking the name of God in public. Nobody worries about the "separation of church and state." Nobody worries about the irreparable damage that might be done to these school children by the intrusion of heretofore-ridiculed Judeo-Christian values. I am sure that there were many tears shed. No doubt many of the mourners took the time to bow their heads for a moment of silence, a generic term that still means "prayer" to most of us--or to all of us who are still not fearful of using the actual word..... Although God had already been expelled from many of our bigger city schools, I attended an elementary school that started each day with prayer and the pledge of allegiance. I can even remember seeing the "Ten Commandments" posted on the blackboards of some of the classrooms. Despite all of these unsavory influences, I somehow managed not to turn to a life of crime and delinquency. The point is simply this: nobody has ever been hurt by bringing prayer and Judeo-Christian standards of morality into the classroom. If our children were exposed to the Ten Commandments at school, they would come under the dangerous influence of concepts such as "Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal." And God forbid! What if the children started to believe and practice them? What could be the worst thing that might happen...they might not kill their teachers and fellow students...they might not steal?..."

FOX News 4/22/99 Amanda Onion Freeper Steven W. "...Chism described how one of the assailants had confronted Valerie Schnurr in the library of the school and asked her if she believed in God. "Val said she knew she could say yes, no or nothing, and she said yes, knowing she would pay a price," Chism said. The assailant then shot Schnurr in the chest. She sustained nine shrapnel and bullet wounds to the chest, abdomen and left arm. She's now in stable condition at Swedish medical Center. "Val told me today she doesn't regret her choice," said Chism...."

Christian Broadcasting Network Website 4/22/99 "...April 22, 1999 Dear Friends, I'm very tired, having just returned from a memorial service this evening. It's been a very long day, but I wanted to give you an update before retiring. As of this morning Rachel Scott's family still hadn't received official word of their daughter Rachel's death. The waiting was agonizing, but after 1:00 p.m. this afternoon, I received a call from the Coroner confirming that Rachel had been positively identified and was indeed deceased. It was very difficult delivering that news, and we spent several hours praying and weeping with the family members who had assembled in their home. Pictures of Rachel adorned the living room. She was such a beautiful 17-year-old! We spent time praying together, and seeking our Father's merciful comfort. We heard from eyewitness accounts of other surviving students that when Rachel was confronted by one of the gunmen, she gave a bold testimony of her faith. The killer asked her, "Do you believe in God?!!" She boldly answered, "Yes I do!" She was instantly gunned down. This has made a major impact on the other students who knew of Rachel's Christian testimony. I'm certain that in this moment, the angels of God surrounded her and instantly ushered her into Christ's eternal kingdom. The spirit of the martyrs still lives! This evening we joined another church in holding a memorial service for Rachel and the other students killed or wounded. Over 1,500 people attended. We heard stories of several students who survived while their classmates were slaughtered while begging for their lives. I had the honor of addressing this assembly for 20 minutes, and urged that we all receive the grace of Jesus to heal our wounds and resurrect our community out of this morass of pain and confusion. One of the ways we must find healing is in forgiving those who have hurt us. There seemed to be a special presence of the Lord this evening upon us all. This Saturday we will hold a Funeral Service for Rachel at 1:30 p.m. We will again be sharing the facilities of another area church just blocks from the site of Columbine High School. We expect the Lord to bring many young people to Himself through this service. Never before have we seen such an open hunger for God in the young people of this community! Thank you for all your prayers and thoughtful notes. Please continue. The process of healing the scars of this tragedy will take time and lots of prayer. Love in Jesus, Bruce Porter Pastor Cellebration Christian Church Littleton, Co"..."

Denver Post 4/23/99 Claire Martin and Janet Bingham "...Cassie Bernall's Christian faith saved her once when her life was in turmoil, and her unwavering trust made her a martyr the instant after she was taunted by the gunmen in Columbine High School's library on Tuesday. "Do you believe in God?'' one of them asked. "Yes, I do believe in God,'' Bernall said. Then he pulled the trigger. Bernall's young friends at the West Bowles Community Church youth group cling to that story like a lifeline. With her last breaths, she affirmed the faith she embraced and it made the shy, quiet Bernall a hero in their eyes. Seth Huoy and Crystal Woodman, who belong to the Bernall's church youth group, were in the library, too. They survived, and one way they make sense of the massacre is to tell about the girl who died because she believed in God. They prayed for invisibility, and in at least one sense, their prayer was answered: Death passed them by.... "

WorldNetDaily 4/23/99 Alan Keyes Freeper laz "...This was a dark week in American life. The shooting in Colorado last Tuesday punctuates the truth about the era in which we live -- a culture of death and dark satanic forces is threatening the future of our nation. We are already hearing the usual suspects rising to speak about guns and other material objects as if they are causing our problem, but we know they are not. Our problem is that a spirit of death is stalking the land...."

Washington Post 4/23/99 Amy Goldstein, Rene Sanchez and Michael A. Fletcher Freeper laz "...While investigators here continued today to sift through the aftermath of the rampage for clues to the shooters' motive, relatives and friends of several of the slain students said that they believe some victims were targeted because they represented all that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold disdained. There is no evidence that the murderous pair moved through the corridors with a hit list of names. But it was widely known among Columbine students that the tiny subculture to which Harris and Klebold belonged had little tolerance for devout Christians, or for athletes who favored caps, or for the handful of minority students who attended the school...."

WALL STREET JOURNAL 4/22/99 Peggy Noonan Freeper Roscoe Karns "...A man called into Christian radio this morning and said a true thing. He said, and I am paraphrasing: Those kids were sick and sad, and if a teacher had talked to one of them and said, "Listen, there's a way out, there really is love out there that will never stop loving you, there's a real God and I want to be able to talk to you about him"--if that teacher had intervened that way, he would have been hauled into court....."

Reuters 4/24/99 Michael Ellis "...A diary recovered from the home of one of two teens responsible for the Columbine High School massacre showed they planned the bloody rampage for a year and that the attack was timed to coincide with Adolf Hitler's birthday..... He said the diary contained detailed plans. It also showed that they had been stockpiling bombs for a considerable period of time..... He declined to say whether the diary came from the home of Eric Harris, 18, or Dylan Klebold, 17, the two seniors who shot and killed 12 fellow students and a popular teacher Tuesday before taking their own lives. Stone described that weapon parts, and other materials were clearly visible in one of the suspect's bedrooms. He did not say which suspect he was referring to...."

CNN 4/24/99 "....The diary of a Columbine High School student discloses that he and another student gunman planned their bloody massacre at the school for more than a year, police said Saturday.... They were monitoring the lunchroom," the sheriff said. "It was very intentional, the timing of this." Stone, who declined to say which of the gunmen kept the diary, placed some of the blame for the massacre on the parents of the shooters, Dylan Klebold, 17, and Eric Harris, 18. He noted that along with the diary, police found a shotgun barrel on a dresser of one of the boy's homes, as well as bomb-making materials. "A lot of this stuff was clearly visible and the parents should have known," Stone said. "I think parents should be accountable for their kids' actions." ..."

Capitol Hill Blue 4/26/99 Doug Thompson "...I killed my first man at 18, a little more than 33 years ago. He looked even younger than me, caught wide-eyed in the blast of a left-to-right sweep of my Stoner machine gun, dancing like a puppet on a string before dropping to the ground. I walked over, looked at his lifeless face and then puked my guts out.... Even when you kill for your country, a little bit of you dies each time you do it..... This wasn't war against a sworn enemy. This was war in a high school, fought by two crazies with a grudge against their classmates. It should be the worst horror that any society can ever imagine. And for many, it was. Most of the students who survived expressed genuine shock and horror at the carnage they both witnessed and were lucky enough to escape. A disturbing number of others, however, seemed unbelievably unaffected by it all. One teenager discussed seeing a fellow student's face blown off with little or no emotion. It wasn't shock. It was a complete lack of revulsion or horror over what he saw. Another youngster described, in graphic detail, what he had seen in such a matter of fact way that you half expected him to say "cool" and walk away. No shock. No revulsion. No anger. Just another video game..... But too many others seem unfazed by what happened. Their dispassion may be the biggest tragedy of all. ..."

Jewish World Review 4/26/99 Cal Thomas Freeper starlu "...WHILE AMERICAN FORCES BOMB YUGOSLAVIA with the announced intention of stopping one form of slaughter, gunfire comes to yet another public school in which more than a dozen have been slaughtered and others, critically wounded, remain in peril...We await the psychiatrists' explanation, but don't we secretly know what it is? When you mix the ingredients for a cake, you get a cake. When you mix the volatile ingredients of corrupted culture, vulgar entertainment and broken, loveless families, you get child killers...."

New York Post 4/26/99 Jonathan R.Cohen "....ACCORDING to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, America has "defined deviancy down." The Columbine High School killings also indicate that America has simultaneously "defined rebellion up." Anti-social teens are nothing new, but as deviancy has been made normal, we have made it increasingly difficult for teen-agers to rebel. Adults no longer seem to be even slightly outraged by far more offensive cultural imagery. As a result it has become harder for teens to shock their elders, try though they do these days by piercing their eyelids, tattooing their bellies and dressing like vampires. We have raised the threshold of rebellion so high that it is practically beyond reach. To be recognized, to get attention, to stir anyone in authority to lift a finger, whether it is a parent, a teacher, a principal, or a sheriff, a rebel has to go to very great lengths these days. One must send letter bombs, blow up office buildings or gun down children...."

WorldNetDaily 4/26/99 Joseph Farah "...'Do you believe in God?' When I first heard the story of 17-year-old Cassie Bernall from dozens of e-mailers, I assumed it was another one of those Internet urban legends. I hear from hundreds of well-intentioned people a week spreading rumors and disinformation they overhear or pick up on the WorldWideWeb somewhere. This story was just too unbelievable to be true -- just too perfect. It turns out the story was perfectly true. Cassie went to the Columbine High School library to study during lunch on Tuesday. Shortly afterward, a member of the Trenchcoat Mafia pointed his gun at her and asked: "Do you believe in God?" "Yes, I believe in God," she said. "Why?" the gunman asked. But he did not wait for an answer. He shot Cassie Bernall dead. Joshua Lapp, 16, was an eyewitness to this execution of the innocent -- a walking, talking, real-world illustration of what I have written about so often in this column: that we all live in the midst of a universal spiritual war zone. Lapp was crouched nearby, hiding from the gunman. What he saw and heard made a powerful impact on him, as it would on anyone..... Now the whole world is hearing it. It shows how temporal our world is. One moment we're going about our routine business. The next moment, we're gone -- at least from this mortal realm.... Those 70,000 -- and, I would guess, millions around the world watching on TV -- were not only brought to tears by recollections of this tragedy, they were empowered to fight back in this spiritual war consuming the earth. It's rare that Americans are shocked out of their sense of complacency, comfort, and security, and forced to address these ultimate issues as a country. All of us have trials and tribulations in our personal and family lives that make us confront them, but collectively, as a nation, we seldom come together to say: "Yeah, there are opposing forces in this universe of ours -- the force of good and evil..... Columbine was a wakeup call. Was it loud enough? Will Americans hear it? Will they heed the message? Or will they fall back into their semi-blissful sleep. There is only one solution. It's a person. His name is Jesus Christ. He came to earth about 2,000 years ago to offer Himself as a sacrifice for the sins of the world. His coming was foretold by the prophets for 4,000 years before He came in human form. And He's coming again -- and, by all indications, very, very soon. Cassie Bernall was ready for Him. The question Columbine should raise in the minds, hearts, and souls of every American and every human being on planet earth is: "Are you ready?" If some evildoer put a gun to your head today and asked you whether you knew Jesus and accepted Him as your personal savior, what would your answer be? ..."

The Washington Times 4/30/99 Valerie Richardson "....Some liberal Christian, black and Jewish leaders are outraged over the strongly evangelical Christian tone of last Sunday's memorial service for those massacred at Columbine High School. "The entire community was invited to come and mourn, and then it turned into an evangelical prayer service," said the Rabbi Stephen Foster of Temple Emanuel in remarks before the Denver Interfaith Clergy Alliance. "I've had many complaints from people saying, 'Where were the Jews?' but that's not the issue," he said. "The issue was one of insensitivity to the kind of statements being made that were exclusively directed to not just Christians, but fundamental Christians." Another rabbi called the service reflective of an "ignorant, narrow-minded" streak of Christianity. None of the parents expressed objections about the memorial or its speakers, which included a rabbi. Several of the slain students were known for their born-again Christian faith, and the testimony of one of them, Cassie Bernall, in the face of death seized the attention of millions of readers and viewers across the nation. One of the gunmen, who seemed to be seeking out believers, asked her whether she believed in God. She looked him in the eye and said, "Yes, I believe in God." He shot her dead. ..."

NewsMax 4/29/99 Richard Poe "...The pundits have spoken. The massacre at Columbine High School, they say, was caused by video games, splatter films, Internet surfing and easy access to guns. But was it really? Not likely. Consider the fact that young people in Switzerland surf the same Internet and watch the same movies as did the Littleton shooters. Consider also that every able-bodied Swiss male between the ages of 20 and 42 serves in the militia. Swiss law requires its citizen soldiers to store their gear at home, ready for action. Every man keeps an assault rifle with ammunition in his closet. By the pundits' reasoning, Switzerland should long ago have drowned in an ocean of blood. So why hasn't it? Maybe because the pundits are wrong. Maybe because guns and video games do not really have the power to transform high school nerds into murderous psychopaths. So what does? One answer is cult brainwashing. Evidence is mounting that the Littleton shooters did not act alone. And some of their conduct suggests a cult mindset. "Do you believe in God?" one of the gunmen asked 17-year-old Cassie Bernall. When she said yes, he killed her. News reports have painted the Littleton massacre as a vendetta against bullies. But Cassie Bernall's death suggests darker motives. The Satanic Bible by Anton LaVey was reportedly a favorite text of Columbine's Trench Coat Mafia....If Berkowitz is telling the truth, then the masterminds behind the Son of Sam murders have been running loose for more than 20 years. We can only hope and pray that investigators of the Columbine massacre will approach their work with more diligence than did their predecessors on the Berkowitz probe...."

New York Post 4/29/99 DAVID GELERNTER Freeper laz "...You might imagine that, in the aftermath of Columbine, our cultural leaders have been caught on camera in the act of hypocrisy. They have told us for years that we should not be ''judgmental,'' but surely everyone everywhere acknowledges his obligation to be ''judgmental'' where these killers are concerned. It appears that what the anti-judgmentalists really meant is: Morality should be kept locked up except in emergencies, in which case you are allowed to Break Glass and (carefully) remove it from its case - keeping in mind that it is a dangerous instrument, only to be used in a crisis...."

Chattanooga Free Press 4/29/99 Pastor James E. Gibson Freeper newsman "...We have taken this issue of pluralism and compared it to moral absolutes and determined that we are going to go with pluralism because we don't like what moral absolutes mean. But, Mr. President, we cannot ignore the fact that moral absolutes still exist. Absolute truth is still in place. And there are three stipulations for absolute truth. One is that truth must come from a source bigger than ourselves. Number two, those truths must be timeless in their relevance. And number three, they must be universal in their application. And I submit to you, Mr. President, that the Bible is the only source that meets all these requirements. . . . "

LifeSite Daily News 4/30/99 '....The findings of the first detailed physiological study of a cloned animal from birth were reported yesterday. Dr Jean-Paul Renard of the Institute National de la Recherche Agronomique found that a baby cow, cloned from an ear cell of a healthy adult cow, had major genetic defects. According to BBC news, "six weeks after the calf was born, there was a sudden, dramatic fall in its red blood cell counts." The calf died a week later and an autopsy reveled that the spleen, thymus and lymph nodes had not developed normally. Dr Harry Griffin, involved in the original cloning of Dolly the sheep said this study reinforces the point that "no-one should be contemplating the cloning of a human being" at this time...."

Florida Times-Union 5/01/99 Jim Saunders Freeper newsman "... ''It's dramatic in many ways,'' said Bush, who made the plan his top priority of the session. ''It's precedent setting.'' But the vouchers battle, which has raged in the Legislature for months, isn't over: A coalition of groups vowed yesterday to go to court to block the plan, arguing it would illegally send tax dollars to religious schools...."

MSNBC 4/30/99 Jay Severin "....As the national debate invariably polarized along two equally simple-minded schools of thought -more God vs. more government - the president predictably signed on to the latter argument. IT DID NOT seem to interfere with his thinking that existing gun control laws cannot prevent tragedies like the Colorado school shootings. Or that such laws unavoidably require sacrificing both money and freedoms. But, hey, this is politics, and you do what the overnight polls tell you will be popular.... Many truths are uncomfortable and inconvenient for liberals like Clinton. One is that while new gun laws won't solve this sort of behavior, other new laws might. If kids unsupervised in the afternoon, after school hours are a key to the problem - and many parents believe that is so - then how about one parent actually at home with them? Well, take it up with the village that is currently raising America's young people, because Mom and Dad are both working to pay the highest taxes in American history, and cannot be home to keep an eye on junior....."

USA Journal 5/3/99 Jon. E. Dougherty "....Foster complained, "The issue was one of insensitivity to the kind of statements being made that were exclusively directed to not just Christians, but fundamental Christians" - meaning, if you're a fervent believer in God's word, you're a dangerous threat to society and, quite probably, as dangerous as the student lunatics who did the shootings in the first place. Another 'good rabbi' went on to call the services "reflective of an 'ignorant,