Word: fundamentalistism
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...world-renowned Harvard child psychiatrist will testify in a closely watched suit in which fundamentalist Christians have charged that Alabama school children are being indoctrinated into the "religion of secular humanism...
...inside the family to rally around. Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, who had been openly critical of Robertson's political plans, reversed his position two weeks ago. At Constitution Hall, Oral Roberts was a late addition to the speakers' list. The next day Jerry Falwell, Bush's most prominent supporter among fundamentalist leaders, made the surprising announcement that he would curtail politicking in order to concentrate on his ministry. For his part, Robertson was sounding more parochial than ever. His speech was directed almost exclusively at the converted, summoning them to war against the "small elite of lawyers, judges and educators...
...government plays down the fundamentalist threat. One senior official describes the religious minority as a "few hundred" people who "cannot do any damage on a national scale." But others see it as a steadily rising influence, particularly in the universities. Few Egyptians can forget that it was a fundamentalist group that assassinated Sadat in a hail of bullets in October...
Frank Herrera, president of ICD/ Hearst, which distributes 120 magazines ranging from Cosmopolitan to Popular Mechanics, says distributors are under growing pressure from Fundamentalist groups. "We're extremely sensitive," he says, "because of the apparent success of the Wildmons and Falwells in putting their own definition on pornography." One recent confrontation took place in Tyler, Texas, where a city ordinance bans nudity below the navel. Local marshals warned stores in the city that the July issue of Cosmopolitan had to be taken off the shelf because of an article showing tummy-tucking operations for chubby women; the local district attorney...
...Iowa, militant moralism is making its way into the mainstream after a group of evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians seized control of the Polk County Republican convention. Iowa Governor Terry Branstad penciled in child- porn laws as one of his top legislative priorities for 1986. The legislature responded by passing a bill that makes it a crime to purchase child porn. The trickle-down theory of antiporn was in evidence when a planned fund-raising softball game south of Des Moines, featuring a group of Playboy Bunnies and Rabbits, was canceled after phone calls to the local athletic booster club protested...