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Jonathan Boucher of Annapolis was equally vehement ("If you are wrong, as in some degree I think you are," he wrote to George Washington, "it is my duty frankly to tell you so, and yours to listen to me with patience"). Indeed, when 20 Patriots gathered threateningly around his pulpit, he seized the group's leader by the collar, "and with my cocked pistol in the other hand, assuring him that if any violence was offered to me I would instantly blow his brains out." But Boucher has given up the struggle and returned to England...
Pope's best weapons. So far, few have delivered direct pulpit orders to their flocks to vote D.C., as many did in Pius' day. But as Franco Sasso, a parish priest in the southern town of Molfetta, indicated last week to TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof, he would quietly remind parishioners, "When you make your choice, you must be consistent with your faith...
...more than a match for the absurdities of modern life. Give him the latest fad, the most flaccidly permissive excuse for current thought, and he will top it nearly every time. With-it Protestantism? De Vries offers a minister who does impressions of movie stars from the pulpit and later throws a brunch at the "Après Church." The new amorality? He comes up with a mother who boasts that her unmarried daughter is having "one of those no-fault pregnancies." The macho style in Washington politics? "When the tough get going," De Vries notes innocently, "the going gets...
Died. Gerald L.K. Smith, 78, self-styled rabble-rouser and proudly bigoted founder of the extreme right-wing Christian Nationalist Crusade; of pneumonia; in Glendale, Calif. A fundamentalist preacher, Smith left his pulpit to work for Louisiana Governor Huey Long, crossing the country to set up Share-Our-Wealth Clubs. After Long's death in 1935, Smith turned far right. In his virulent magazine The Cross and The Flag, he heaped invective on Jews, blacks, Catholics, Communists and labor unions, and campaigned to drive "Franklin D. Jewsevelt" out of the White House...
...Aldrich (The Longest Yard) does all he can to enliven this turgid material with sleazy jokes, low-down sex and a little violence, he cannot manage to stifle Shagan's sermon. Aldrich is like a kid passing around a dirty magazine while the preacher drones on from the pulpit above...