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Some members of Wildmon's coali tion contend that is not so. Says Karen Davis of Fort Worth, Texas, local leader of Christian Women's National Concerns: "Our group is not so much for limitation of TV shows, as it is to get shows that are of a high quality on TV." Most coalition spokesmen, however, appear to share Falwell's goal of making every program on the tube suitable for family viewing. For jxample, Dan Fore, Moral Majority's New York State chairman, says that TV should return to shows like I Love Lucy...
...unanswered question is whether the coalition is merely a front for the Moral Majority or for other increasingly influential political activists of the New Right. The Moral Majority helps finance the coalition but denies it is one of Moral Majority's arms, and Wildmon says he is not a Moral Majority member. Funds for Wildmon's Federation for Decency are being raised by Richard Viguerie, a direct mail specialist who has collected millions for North Carolina's Senator Jesse Helms and other conservative heroes. "The subject of sex in the media is probably going...
...Wildmon seems sincerely convinced the networks are willfully wrecking America. He wrote recently in Conservative Digest, which Viguerie publishes, that networks "by design" have taught that "sexual immorality, violence, profanity, vulgarity, etc. were values worthy of imitation and emulation." On the deepest level, Wildmon and his fellow protesters yearn for a society-wide reaffirmation of the tradition of childhood innocence. They think children should be shielded from too much worldly knowledge too soon. Because the conservatives place so much emphasis on family and parenthood, they are ready to sacrifice adults' freedom of choice. There is a gruff, honest passion...
...leader of the Coalition for Better Television is an unprepossessing man. Slight and balding, the Rev. Donald Wildmon, 43, was born in Dumas, Miss., was ordained a Methodist minister and for 20 years preached to congregations in his home state. Wildmon has been a doer all along: he is the author of inspirational tracts (Treasured Thoughts, Graduation Gold, and 15 other books). He and his wife run a side business: leading tourist junkets to the Holy Land...
Nearly five years ago, Wildmon experienced a prime-time epiphany: one viewing night he could find nothing but sexual innuendo, profanity and violence on television. He was shocked into starting the National Federation for Decency, which in February became a member organization of the Coalition for Better Television. In 1977 he gave up his ministry in a suburban Memphis congregation to work full time for untainted television. He operates out of a dog eared three-room office in an unprosperous quarter of midtown Tupelo, Miss., assisted by a staff of two. The office contains one color TV set, with...