Word: revs
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SOME time ago, it became part of the conventional wisdom to suggest that the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson would make an ideal Drug Czar. It is a position which has never existed in the past, and the responsibilities of the Czar are necessarily vague...
Oddly enough, the man who scores lowest on the Biblical Scoreboard is a Black Baptist minister, the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Jackson, the only presidential hopeful to quote Jesus Christ at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Jackson, the man who called on the nation to put principles ahead of politics, the preacher who--like Christ--challenged his fellow sisters and brothers to feed the hungry and clothe the naked...
Trying to maintain their hold on conservative southern Democrats, Republicans may talk a lot about the Rev. Jesse Jackson, trying to frighten the millions of whites who opposed civil rights and backed Gov. George Wallace just 20 years ago. They'll keep referring to the Dukakis-Bentsen-Jackson ticket...
...last week, a group of conservative Christian ministers demanded that the studio destroy all copies of the film. The ministers, who had not seen the film but had read a version of the screenplay, charged that it portrays Jesus "as a mentally deranged and lust-driven man." Said the Rev. Lloyd John Ogilvie of the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood: "It is the most serious misuse of film craft in the history of filmmaking." An ad placed by 61 Christians in the Hollywood Reporter declared, "Our Lord was crucified once on the cross. He doesn't deserve to be crucified...
...Taxi Driver and The Color of Money, has tried for years to make a film of The Last Temptation. Paramount had planned to produce it in 1983 but backed away, fearing pressure from Fundamentalists. When Universal undertook the project, it hired born-again Marketers Tim Penland and the Rev. Larry Poland to help allay concern about the film among their fellow conservative Christians. The pair marked 80 out of 120 script pages where they thought dialogue or action would be unacceptable, then resigned, they say, after concluding that Universal would not respond to their objections and had used them only...