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...will not take the plunge just yet. Instead, he gave his supporters a year to round up 3 million signatures from voters who pledge that "they will pray, that they will work, that they will give toward my election." In a finale that no secular politician would risk, Robertson asked every member of the audience, live and remote, to give $100 on the spot. A check, cash or a credit-card number would...
Robertson does not have to think of new ways to be provocative. His assaults on "secular humanists" and the Supreme Court, his oblique allusions to the superiority of "Christians" as he defines them, aroused a backlash even before his announcement. Education Secretary William Bennett, a staunch conservative Reaganaut, condemned some of Robertson's rhetoric as "invidious sectarianism that must be renounced in the strongest terms." People for the American Way, a liberal organization that has fought a guerrilla campaign against the religious right, produced a videotape with a telling sequence in which the preacher claims to have diverted Hurricane Gloria...
...peace envisioned in the West. Syria not only rejects the existence of an Israeli state, it has little use for a Palestinian state. Syria and its favorite Lebanese terror group, the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party, have a different vision. An Associated Press dispatch summarizes it nicely: "The secular SSNP seeks the merger of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, pre-Israel Palestine, Iraq, Kuwait and Cyprus" -- Cyprus! -- "into a Greater Syria...
Although Turkey's population is more than 98% Muslim, the government has a secular constitution, and religious freedom is respected throughout the country. In addition, Islamic practice forbids an attack on anyone at worship, even a non-Muslim enemy. Remarking on that prohibition, Ozal told reporters, "It is inconceivable to do this to people who come together to pray." Turkish police had reportedly not given the synagogue any special protection because no house of worship in the country had ever been assaulted...
...take her second-grade daughter out of class, Frost sued for false arrest and obtained a $70,000 judgment, which is now being appealed. Some Hawkins County children have been suspended for refusing to read the books. In Mobile, meanwhile, another group has brought a similar suit challenging the "secular humanist" teachings of the public schools. That case, backed by TV Evangelist Pat Robertson, a potential presidential candidate in 1988, is scheduled to go to trial this October...