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- From: morgan@ms.uky.edu (Wes Morgan)
- Subject: Re: Waldenbooks fires staff for refusing to sell racist book!
- References: <BuD153.6yI@NCoast.ORG>
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- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.80221.18985@ms.uky.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 12:02:21 GMT
- Organization: The Puzzle Palace, UKentucky
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- cmort@ncoast.org (Christopher Morton) writes:
- >> Unfortunatly, they [Waldenbooks] don't stock Maupin's books. And if you
- >> dare to special order such a thing, they'll sometimes even give you a nice
- >> Baptist Snarl(tm) to really make sure you understand that they go
- >> quite a bit beyond not condoning homosexuality.
- >
- >The one at the Southland Shopping Center in Parma Heights, OH used to. Now
- >all you have to do is move to Cleveland, become a racist and learn to bowl...
- >:)
- >
- >I am well aquainted with the mind set, having been stationed at Ft. Knox.
-
- Hold on there, friend!
-
- While Kentucky is often classified as a Bible Belt state, there is a
- rather astonishing enclave of moderation, to wit:
-
- - Convicted Watergate participant Jeb Magruder is the pastor
- of the largest Presbyterian church in Lexington.
-
- - Several Kentucky Baptist churches have broken with the Southern
- Baptist Convention over the 'withdrawl of fellowship' from a
- North Carolina church which ordained a homosexual.
-
- - My home church (Chevy Chase Baptist) has held a joint Vacation
- Bible School with the largest Catholic church in Lexington
- (Christ the King Cathedral, right across the street) for the
- last two years. (For Southern Baptists, that's *real* moderation!)
-
- Kentucky certainly has its proverbial 'bad apples'; all states have a few.
- I don't think we can paint the entire state with a fundmentalist/censorial
- brush.
-
- As far as FT Knox, I didn't find it any better (or worse) than any other
- military base. (Would you like to talk about FT Leonard Wood, MO or FT
- Hood, TX??)
-
- --Wes
-
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