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Almost single-handedly, the PTC has become a national clearinghouse for, and arbiter of, decency (though other groups, like the Rev. Donald Wildmon's American Family Association, remain active in the cause as well). It has focused heavily on advertisers; for instance, it claims to have driven away 50 sponsors from FX's edgy Nip/Tuck and The Shield. It offers program-content reviews and other tools for parents, who, Bozell stresses, have the chief responsibility for their kids. "It's not as simple as 'It's all Hollywood's fault,'" he says. And the PTC has harnessed technology: besides...
Last Week. If alive, the Lindbergh child became 22 months old last week. Col. Lindbergh made a two-day journey from his lonely estate. He was seen at Milford and Bridgeport, Conn. The "Jafsie" notes disappeared from the newspapers. The Norfolk triumvirate--Rev. Harold Dobson-Peacock, John Hughes Curtis, Rear Admiral Guy Hamilton Burrage, U. S. N. retired--continued their activity. Mr. Curtis effected his weekly disappearance in a naval plane; the Episcopal minister, not very successfully incognito as "H. Pearson," alighted from an airplane at Newark Airport and was reported in consultation with the child's parents. When they...
...also played a portion of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s fiery speech during the Democratic National Convention last July and clips from the 2004 presidential campaign trail, including Howard Dean’s infamous scream during the Iowa caucus...
Thanks to the Phelps family, this small, gossipy city can perhaps lay claim to being the homophobia capital of the U.S. Since 1991, the Rev. Fred Phelps, 75, has led his family in campaigns against everyone from "sodomites" and "fag enablers" to victims of 9/11. More recently the Phelpses initiated a referendum on the March 1 ballot that would prohibit laws protecting gay rights. The family is also supporting one of Fred's 53 grandchildren, Jael Phelps, 20, a prim nursing student who once picketed Matthew Shepard's funeral, in her run against city councilwoman Tiffany Muller...
...young Evangelicals are not content with a faith that fails to address the relevant social issues of our day and are quietly working to alleviate human suffering in impoverished communities across the country. They will be what saves evangelical Christianity from its demise as a significant religious movement. (The Rev.) Jeff Carr Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. Reality in Iraq Columnist Joe Klein's "The End Of Rose-Petal Fantasies" suggested that hawkish neoconservatives may be losing their influence on the Bush Administration's policies in Iraq and elsewhere [Feb. 7]. Klein says Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...