Word: anticult
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...banning gay members unless they swear off homosexuality. On her talk show last Wednesday, O'Donnell--who recently came out as a lesbian--fumed that she should have been informed, and she demanded that her voice be taken off the Oscar-nominated documentary. "Let me just say I'm anticult," she said. Her publicist elaborated, "If Rosie had known the truth about this organization, she never would have consented to lend her name and voice." The film's lawyer responded that "the inflammatory accusation that certain people affiliated with the film" are in an organization that discriminates against gays...
...words were carefully ambiguous. And just days earlier, his boss, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, stood up before the territory's Legislative Council and declared: "There is no doubt Falun Gong is an evil cult." That statement has been broadly interpreted as a precursor for a tough anticult bill. And if such a bill is submitted, the legislature, packed with people who follow Beijing's dictates, will surely pass it, which would further damage the "One Country, Two Systems" principle through which Hong Kong is constitutionally meant to operate under its own political, economic and social systems...
...line. In his statement, he said Hong Kong does not need new legislation "at this point" but added: "We must monitor Falun Gong very carefully." Once again, Tung seems to think patriotic behavior means echoing the wishes of China's President Jiang Zemin, who wants Falun Gong quashed. The anticult arguments that Tung and his senior officials have advanced are forced and fallacious. Tung has said the self-immolation in Tiananmen Square of "cultists" who Beijing says are Falun Gong followers reminds him of Jonestown, 1978. A senior member of his Cabinet associated Falun Gong with Japan's Aum Shinrikyo...
...view, Deng Xiaoping promoted the One Country, Two Systems formula to allow China to become more like Hong Kong, not the other way around. If Tung, out of a misplaced sense of patriotism, enacts anticult legislation to please Beijing's leaders, he will be doing his country a disservice. Tsang's remarks suggest moderation but even he left open the possibility of a future ban. "We are not legislating," he said last week, a statement that covers just the present, meaning the government might shift tack at any time. That would please the ignorant and the sycophants in China...
...only twice-of misdemeanors. His usual defense: cult-naping is justified if parents think a convert, of whatever age, is in danger. Finally, in San Diego, he was convicted of felony kidnaping, for planning an abduction of a woman he never met. Last week, after hearing a parade of anticult witnesses, the judge gave him a light $5,000 fine and a year in local custody, during which he will be confined to the city...