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...steady, solitary refrain during the fall and winter. He also struggles with carnal desires. He reads and translates erotic passages from Juvenal. When these sessions succeed, he writes: Masturbatus sum. Shortly after he arrives, he develops a crush on Fanny Cooper, the daughter-in-law of the local Methodist preacher, whose husband then providentially dies of a rattlesnake bite. As the diarist's history slowly emerges, he becomes that quintessential hero of American literature, the self-exile on the run from his past...
JUDGMENT AGAINST. Jerry Falwell, 52, Fundamentalist preacher and Moral Majority leader; ordered to pay $5,000 to his former Bible school classmate Jerry Sloan; in Sacramento, Calif. On a TV talk show last year, Falwell promised that sum to Homosexual Activist Sloan if he could prove that Falwell had publicly denounced a gay church where Sloan once served as a minister. Sloan produced a 1984 videotape of Falwell's Old Time Gospel Hour, in which he referred to the gay church as "part of a vile and satanic system." Said Sloan: "It's the first time the man's been...
...many ways, Ronald Reagan made Jerry Falwell possible. The preacher is routinely introduced to audiences as a friend of the President's. In 1980 Falwell lined up Moral Majority behind the candidate, and Reagan agreed with the Fundamentalist positions on such issues as school prayer and abortion. When Reagan visited Liberty University in October 1980, Falwell basked in the limelight. Last February, when the President turned down an invitation to address the National Religious Broadcasters in Washington, the organization turned to Falwell. After he called the White House, both Reagan and George Bush agreed to speak...
...censorship, legislation of private morality, and the packing of courts with doctrinaire "pro-family" judges. Some of the most thoughtful objections come from the Evangelical movement. The "packaging of the Gospel with politics" is unfortunate for the faith, says Chattanooga's Ben Haden, a conservative Presbyterian pastor and TV preacher. He compares the Fundamentalists who are venturing into politics to the church liberals who stressed social action over the Gospel in the 1960s. Charles Colson, the Nixon aide who served seven months in federal prison for his role in the Watergate scandal, is a born-again Christian and evangelist...
HOMOSEXUALITY. "Is homosexuality a disease? No! It is a sin," insists Preacher Joe Chambers of Paw Creek, N.C. His judgment is based on such Bible references as Leviticus 18: 22 ("You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination") and Romans 1: 27 ("men committing shameless acts with men"). Traditionalists thus believe that government should do nothing to recognize or encourage homosexual activity. In communities across the nation, Fundamentalists and other religionists are lobbying against homosexual-rights bills. They are alarmed by a federal court ruling applying the District of Columbia gay-rights...