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The fervently anti-Communist evangelist Billy James Hargis flew back from a crusade in Rhodesia to meet the invasion of his theological turf with a series of Christian-leadership meetings at which he roundly denounced the World Council as far left and ungodly. Despite a freezing rain, the Rev. Carl...
Even though Blake and his colleagues occasionally looked like beleaguered Daniels in a fundamentalist's lions' den, their choice of Tulsa was a deliberate one. "We saw it not as a way of taking on Hargis," said a council spokesman, Faith Pomponio, "but as a way of communication...
Because the council, through its Commission on Religion and Race, has been fervent in the cause of civil rights, much of the slugging comes from angered Southerners or others dubious about integration. Such radiorators as Carl Mclntire and Billy James Hargis, who are fundamentalist in religion and right wing in...
"It's not those poor kids downstairs that we are mad at," Hargis said. "They may not know what is behind them, but I do. The people we are mad at are the motley slimy Communists sitting in some hotel room in Boston or New York maneuvering all this."
Hargis drew his loudest applause with plaudits for "Bob Welch--one of the greatest American patriots I have ever met." He commented briefly on H. Stuart Hughes, "who I understand went straight down the socialist, pro-Communist line."