N E W S - July, 1998

The Southern Baptist Convention met in Utah this month, Mormon country, to create new Baptist statements of belief and and win Mormons (who consider themselves Christians) to Christ. The new statements they came up with were interesting, resolutions to prevent polygamy(!), same-sex marriages and to force women to submit to their husbands.

"A wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ," was how the resolution read. The relationship that is omitted from this scenario is that men are then expected to submit to the leadership of their church and pastors, setting up a chain of unquestioned dependency with leaders accountable to no one. Men are awarded the booby prize of submissive wives for voluntarily giving their will, financial and emotional resources to the church, a kind of spiritual emasculation.

The Baptists also took exception to Disney World for allowing "Gay Day" and decided not to hold their next convention in Orlando but rather the more godly city of New York.

A suggestion to censure Bill Clinton, a moderate Southern Baptist, failed to pass. Another proposal to ban the wearing of green on Thursday also failed by a narrow margin.

SOURCE: LA Times

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James Dobson, head of a radio, magazine and book ministry which dwarfs the Christian Coalition and boasts 28 million listeners, has begun dabbling in candidate endorsement. Starting small he endorsed Jon Christensen running for governor in Nebraska's recent election. Christensen is pro-life, anti-gay and lobbies for prayer and creation science to be included in school curricula. Christensen is engaged to former Miss America Tara Dawn Holland who swears she is still a virgin saving herself for marriage. Nebraskans voted overwhelmingly for the moderate candidate, Mike Johanns.

Undaunted Dobson moved on to endorse Bob Dornan who plans to run for reelection to the house of representatives. Dornan is famous for never conceding his loss to Laura Sanchez claiming that she won the seat through the votes of illegal immigrants.

The 62-year old Dobson recently suffered a mild stroke. He was briefly hospitalized and is doing much better.

SOURCE: Pathfinder/Time, AP

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Loose screw Pat Robertson, a victim of this summer's spate of apocalyptic movies, warned the city of Orlando that their support of sexual diversity would bring the wrath of God down on them in the form of hurricanes, earthquakes, terrorist bombings, meteors and 6000 year-old radioactive dinosaurs thawed from rogue icebergs.

Robertson claims his comments were taken out of context.

SOURCE: LA Times

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Ten Hutterite males have been charged with sexually abusing several 6 and 7-year-old girls of their community. Offenses including incest and fondling have been going on for a 10-year period.

The Hutterites are an Anaabaptist religious sect originally from Moravia founded by Austrian religious reformer John Hutter. They hold beliefs similar to the Mennonites.

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Two Abner Stolzfuses, aged 23 and 24, were busted near Gap, PA for their 5-year involvment in a drug ring run by the Pagans, a Pennsyvania motorcycle gang. (The name 'Abner Solzfus' is as common in Amish communities as 'John Smith' is in secular communities.) The charges they face could bring them a sentence of life in prison.

Canadians authorities report that Mennonite drug smugglers were the main suppliers of marijuana to Canada as they were generally able to breeze through customs unquestioned.

SOURCE: LA Times

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New Jersey was one of the first states to pass a "family cap" which denied additional benefits to mothers who have more children while they are on welfare. The result has been to raise the rate of abortions in New Jersey by 240 a year. While the abortion rate increased for NJ welfare mothers it decreased for the general population

Christian conservatives were hot to back the Contract with America including the family-friendly third article "The Personal Responsibility Act":

Discourage illigitimacy and teen pregnancy by prohibiting welfare to minor mothers and denying increased AFDC for additional children while on welfare, cut spending for welfare programs, and enact a tough two-years-and-out provision with work requirements to promote individual responsibility.

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Avon Silversmiths has designed a set of crucifixes for priests and nuns concerned with their personal security. If the chain is pulled on the crucifix sends out a piercing alarm. The four styles range in price from $300 to $400.

The company is now working on a version for the pants of alterboys.

SOURCE: LA Times

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Many thanks to frederique, our news slave, for sending all the clippings.

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