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- From: rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
- Subject: Re: Fundamentalists and the clitoris
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.224834.28041@PacBell.COM>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:48:34 GMT
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- > harvey@phoenix.princeton.edu (Harvey Cohen) writes:
-
- > ..."Live and let live" is not in their vocabulary.
- >They do not recognize any alternative viewpoints (christian, Jewish, Muslim,
- >atheist or otherwise)...
-
- A case in point -- today's (11/18/92) New York Times reported
- on a meeting of Republican state governors. At a press
- conference, a reporter "asked the governors whether they could
- succeed in holding together a diverse conservative coalition
- without alienating the religious right."
-
- ...Governor Kirk Fordice of Mississippi took issue with
- the questioner.
-
- He said the question "seemed to infer that there is a
- demise of Christianity in America," adding, "I totally
- reject that."
-
- Mr. Fordice went on to say: "The United States of America
- is a Christian nation, which does not in any way infer at
- any time that religious intolerance or any kind of
- particular dogma is being forced on anyone else. It just
- is a simple fact of life in the United States of America."
-
- Governor [Carroll A.] Campbell [Jr., of South Carolina]
- then strode to the platform and said: "The value base of
- this country comes from the Judeo-Christian heritage that
- we have, and that is something we need to realize." He
- added that a study of history showed that "the foundation
- of the country" was based on "a Judeo-Christian heritage."
-
- When Mr. Campbell returned to his spot on the dais next to
- Mr. Fordice, he said, "I just wanted to add the 'Judeo'
- part."
-
- Mr. Fordice responded tartly, "If I wanted to do that I
- would have done it."
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