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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 27, 1983
MEMORANDUM TO: MORTON C. BLACKWELL
FROM:
SUBJECT:
Joyce Telephone Thomann Call Jyee from FRW
Faith called this afternoon (5:20 p.m.) to tell you
that the memo you prepared yesterday was very good.
At the request of Ken Duberstein, however, she does
need some additional information before the memorandum goes
forward. Specifically regarding the School Prayer portion
of the memo:
Has the coalition made any progress regarding
0
persuading Orrin Hatch to withdraw his school
prayer amendment?
Which of the two amendments does the coalition
want brought up? The Hatch Amendment, or the
revised one the President proposed on July 12, 1983?
There was another amendment in the Judiciary Committee
on school prayer. What happened to it? Did it
get reported out?
When do they want a School Prayer Amendment to go
to the floor for a vote?
The memo which you sent to Faith yesterday should be
revised to address these specific items.
:jet
9/28/83- Pook called.
Dr. Jimmy Draper is sending out a
mailing/magazine headlined "Dr. Diaper
opposes the Hatch School Prayer Amdt."
Paul will give you an advance copy
today.
WHITE HOUSE REPORT
Reagan Looks to Religious Leaders
For Continuing Support in 1984
He scored well with all religious groups in 1980. Now he is trying to demonstrate
progress on their pet issues and soliciting their support for his policies.
BY DICK KIRSCHTEN
well was editor of The New Right
tives often come from families that fol-
Journal, now defunct, from 1973-79 and
lowed the usual tendency of urban Catho-
P
olitics and religion have always
contributing editor of Conservative Di-
lics to back local Democratic machines.
rubbed shoulders in this country, so
gest from 1974-81.
Neoconservative Jews are in many cases
much so that it has become a standard
On a recent list of 106 organizations
converts from decidedly left-wing tradi-
cynicism to refer to candidates who cloak
briefed by Blackwell's group, about a
tions. Southern Evangelicals, when they
themselves in God, the flag and mother-
fourth were religiously oriented. Many of
voted at all, generally conformed to their
hood.
the leaders courted for support of Rea-
region's ancient loyalty to the Demo-
Liberal politics of the 1960s and 1970s
gan's Latin American policy were re-
crats."
saw politicians and clergy marching hand
cruited from the grass-roots lobbying co-
No one knows precisely how many
in hand to support civil rights or to protest
alitions that work with the White House
members of religious groups voted in any
the immorality of the Vietnam war. The
to advance such causes as opposition to
election, much less how they voted. Pub-
1980s, perhaps reflecting a change in the
abortion and pornography and support
lic opinion polls of voters offer an ap-
national mood, have produced the presi-
for the return of prayer to the public
proximation, but results often vary from
dency of Ronald Reagan, who for years
schools and tax breaks for parents who
one survey to the next.
has marshaled moralistic arguments in
send their children to private schools.
Nonetheless, some noteworthy shifts in
support of conservative political causes.
These issues, sometimes referred to as
religious patterns were observable in
Reagan's 1980 election victory was
the social agenda, are not the sort of
1980. Among Protestants, Reagan
built in no small part upon support from
pressing topics upon which national elec-
showed surprising strength, especially in
conservative religious leaders. Protestant
tions are likely to turn. For the most part,
the South, as he held Carter's share of the
Evangelicals, including televised preach-
they involve perennial debates over
vote below 40 per cent. In 1976, Carter, a
ers such as the Rev. Jerry Falwell, were
whether government can or should legis-
born-again Baptist, had garnered an un-
active on Reagan's behalf. Conservative
late morality.
usually high-for a Democrat-46 per
Catholics were also a significant factor,
But when combined with Reagan's
cent of the Protestant vote, according to
as was the unusual defection of Jewish
tough anti-Communist and pro-defense
the study.
voters from the Democratic Party as rep-
stands-positions applauded by the
Among Catholics, Reagan drew an es-
resented in 1980 by President Carter.
Catholic right and by Jewish "neocon-
timated 47 per cent of the vote in the
As the Reagan White House looks to-
servatives"-the social agenda becomes
three-candidate 1980 race-5 percentage
ward the 1984 election, the President's
part of the glue that Republican strate-
points higher than President Ford's 1976
religious allies are in the thick of the two-
gists hope to use to keep their governing
showing in a two-way contest. By con-
way traffic of interest-group politicking.
coalition intact.
trast, Carter fell sharply from 57 per cent
In one lane, presidential aides scurry to
of the Catholic vote in 1976 to 46 per cent
demonstrate progress on issues such as
LOOKING FOR VOTES
in 1980.
tuition tax credits and school prayer in
In the calculus of White House politi-
Among Jews, Carter, who had received
fulfillment of Reagan campaign prom-
cal operatives. Republicans normally can
an estimated 70 per cent of the vote in
ises. In the opposite lane, conservative
count on no more than 40 per cent of the
1976, plummeted to less than 50 per cent
religious leaders and organizations are
national vote. To stay in power for four
in 1980. According to an analysis of seven
being called upon to back Reagan in
more years, then, the GOP must pick up
voter polls conducted by Alan M. Fisher
controversies ranging from his attempt to
11 per cent of the vote at the margin.
of California State University
replace members of the U.S. Civil Rights
According to A. James Reichley, a
(Dominguez Hills). Reagan got a strong
Commission to his handling of the mili-
senior fellow at the Brookings Institution,
34 per cent of the Jewish vote, but the
tary situation in Central America.
Reagan's 1980 electoral coalition drew
biggest beneficiary of Carter's drop was
The White House public liaison office,
marginal votes from three religious blocs
independent candidate John B. Ander-
for example, has placed Morton C. Black-
"outside the normal constituencies of the
son, who netted 17 per cent of the Jewish
well, a staffer with close ties to the reli-
Republican Party."
vote while receiving only 7 per cent of the
gious New Right, in charge of its "out-
Writing in The Brookings Review,
over-all vote. (See chart, next page.)
reach group on Central America." Black-
keichley observed: "Catholic conserva-
In polls by the Gallup Organization
NATIONAL JOURNAL 8/20/83 1727
Inc., fully 90 per cent of respondents
against "the cultural drift
identify themselves as Protestant (58 per
of the '70s." Its adherents
cent), Catholic (30 per cent) or Jewish (2
The Religion Factor
consist of churchgoers who
per cent). The 1983 Yearbook of Ameri-
became tired of condemna-
can and Canadian Churches (Abbington
(estimated Protestant, Catholic and Jewish vote
tions of their country's role
Press, Nashville, Tenn.) reports that
for the Republican presidential candidate)
in international affairs.
about 138 million Americans, or 60 per
'52
'56
'60
'64
'68
'72
'76
'80
"The same tide of public
cent of the population, are members of
religions. Of these, 55.2 per cent are
Nixon
Nixon
opinion that was exploited
Goldwater
Nixon
Ford
Protestant, 37 per cent are Catholic and
Reagan
by Ronald Reagan in 1980
gave rise to this organiza-
4.3 per cent are Jewish.
tion," he said. "It was peo-
As the polls demonstrate, none of these
ple seeking to reaffirm the
groups votes monolithically. The political
validity of American dem-
operatives in the Reagan White House,
ocratic values.
75%
encouraged by their 1980 success, intend
"Our issue is democracy
to work their various religious constituen-
within the churches. We
cies harder than ever in 1984.
reject the moral superior-
White House strategists see Central
ity of those who hold influ-
America as an ideal issue for whipping up
ence in the church hierar-
support among the faithful. Public li-
chies."
aison chief Faith Ryan Whittlesey, in
Kemble acknowledged
a recent interview in The Washington
%
that the bipartisan insti-
Post, indicated that the White House
Catholic
tute has a strong interest in
thought it could win support for its
foreign policy that paral-
foreign policy by appealing to reli-
leled that of the Adminis-
gious loyalties. Her office has as-
tration. "We reject the aid
serted that Nicaragua's leftist
and support to Third
leaders have "persecuted Jews,
World revolutionaries that
Protestants and Catholics [and]
Protestant
%
has flowed from the relief
booed and heckled the Pope."
efforts of the National
The President himself is
Council of Churches," he
keeping up his personal con-
said.
tacts with conservative reli-
Earlier this year, the in-
gious leaders. Besides White
stitute, which draws the
House meetings and prayer
bulk of its support from
breakfasts, Reagan has ad-
conservative foundations,
dressed such organizations as
made its bite felt in a big
the National Religious Broad-
way. An article in Reader's
casters and the National Asso-
Digest and a report on the
ciation of Evangelicals.
CBS-TV's 60 Minutes,
Speaking to the Evangeli-
both based on the insti-
cals in Orlando, Fla., last
tute's research, took the
March, Reagan detailed his
SOURCE: Gallup Organization Inc. (Protestant
council to task for support-
Administration's efforts to re-
and Catholic): Alan M. Fisher (Jewish)
ing leftist causes. The CBS
quire parental notification
segment, filmed at a Meth-
when teen-agers receive birth control as-
But now, within many of the churches,
odist church in Logansport, Ind., asserted
sistance from clinics receiving federal
conservative voices are being raised in
that the council was using church dona-
aid; his support for constitutional amend-
disagreement. While many religious lead-
tions to support "causes that seem closer
ments to restore school prayer and to
ers can be found denouncing Reagan's
to the Soviet-Cuban view of the world
reverse Supreme Court decisions permit-
policy in Central America, the White
than Logansport's."
ting abortion; and his support for federal
House has discovered that there are
The church council fought back, de-
"infanticide" regulations to bar failure to
plenty of church officials ready and will-
fending its policies in general while busily
care for handicapped infants.
ing to lend moral force to the other side of
explaining its procedures to troubled
The President also set the record
the debate.
members. "Our only bias is toward the
straight with respect to his views about
Of keen interest to Reagan aides is the
gospel of Jesus Christ, not any political
the roles of church and state. "I think the
work of the Institute on Religion and
system," responded Rev. Randolph Nu-
items that we've discussed here today,"
Democracy, a small, neoconservative
gent, head of the Methodist Board of
he told the Evanglicals, "must be a key
think tank that encourages dissent among
Global Ministries. He added, "Jesus
part of the nation's political agenda."
churchgoers who are uneasy about the
Christ and the gospel do have a bias
liberal views of the leaders of their con-
toward the poor."
SHARPENING THE DEBATE
gregations. The institute has been par-
The Rev. Dean M. Kelley, the coun-
Reagan's lively political interest in con-
ticularly critical of the National Council
cil's director for religious and civil lib-
servative church groups does not neces-
of Churches, the ecumenical umbrella for
erty, said: "We have 32 members, all of
sarily signal a rightward shift in religious
most of the nation's major Protestant and
them religious denominations, and none
thought. The clergy, as evidenced by the
Eastern Orthodox denominations.
of them has left the fold. As long as they
nuclear freeze movement, is as much in
Penn Kemble, the institute's Washing-
think the council is doing what it ought to
the vanguard of the nation's liberal poli-
ton spokesman, explained that the group
be doing and keep paying the bills, we'll
tics as ever.
came into being as a result of a backlash
continue to do our work."
1728
NATIONAL 8/20/83
Catholics. "Largely Catholic, the conser-
[on abortion] in 10 years." The record of
OUTSPOKEN BISHOPS
vatives view themselves as defenders of
that vote, a conference news release
The tensions between leadership and
Christian tradition against the demonian
noted, "will be a valuable resource in
laity that spark debate-and provide
challenge of international Communism,"
future debates."
pools for both liberal and conservative
Reichley wrote.
politicians to fish in-are by no means
Even on school prayer and tuition tax
THE JEWISH VOTE
exclusive to the Protestant sects. The
credits, the Catholic bishops have taken
For a group that constitutes such a
Catholic church demonstrated its capac-
issue with Reagan. Last May, they held
small proportion of the population, Jews
ity for controversy this year when its
that any constitutional amendment ad-
carry surprising weight in the equation of
bishops issued a pastoral letter calling for
dressing the issue of voluntary prayer in
religious-interest politics. "Jews are still
an immediate bilateral halt to the nuclear
the public schools should also include
concentrated in populous states with
arms race coupled with deep cuts in the
provision for voluntary religious instruc-
large electoral college votes, and their
nuclear arsenals of the United States and
tion. The school prayer amendment
political influence is amplified by their
the Soviet Union.
backed by Reagan was dismissed by the
high turnout, their campaign contribu-
The pastoral letter, which the Adminis-
bishops as "mainly symbolic" and "not of
tions and their other political activity,"
tration unsuccessfully tried to head off or
sufficient value to justify the problems it
noted California State University's
soften, was a central event in the national
might create."
Fisher.
political debate over arms control. In the
Tuition tax credits, long a popular
Over the years, Jews have traditionally
end, the bishops issued a plea for "civility
Catholic cause, have been eagerly sup-
delivered heavy pluralities to Democratic
and charity." They acknowledged "the
ported by the bishops, but not without
presidential candidates. But in 1980, de-
range of strongly held opinion in the
some criticism of the proposal that Rea-
tecting a strong disillusionment with
Catholic community on questions of fact
gan backs. Bishop James P. Lyke of
President Carter among Jews, the Repub-
and judgment concerning issues of war
Cleveland testified last year that the Ad-
licans made an unusually strong pitch for
and peace. We urge mutual respect
ministration's legislative proposal should
the Jewish vote. Many of Reagan's stands
among individuals and groups in the
include cash grants for families that pay
on issues involving the separation of
Church as this letter is analyzed and
no federal income tax.
church and state were not widely shared
discussed."
Lyke, a black who grew up in a federal
in the Jewish community, but his record
Blackwell, at the White House, said
housing project on Chicago's south side,
of consistent support for Israel won him a
the bishops' stand on the nuclear freeze
said that his mother had washed church
receptive hearing, especially from the
was not seen as a setback to the Reagan
laundry to pay his tuition after withdraw-
hawkish neoconservatives.
Administration's political standing with
ing him from an overcrowded public
Nathan Perlmutter, national director
conservative Catholics. "There is a differ-
school and enrolling him in a Catholic
of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation
ence of opinion even among the Catholic
bishops, not to mention the Catholic la-
ity," he said.
The differences among the bishops,
however, were not very great. The final
version of the pastoral letter was ap-
proved, 238-9. On other issues, as well,
the bishops have voiced discomfort with
the policies of the Administration.
On July 22, the bishops stated their
strong opposition to "any form of U.S.
military intervention in Central Amer-
ica." The conference's president, Arch-
bishop John R. Roach of St. Paul and
Minneapolis, describing the situation as
"critical," reiterated the Catholic leader-
ship's call for "a diplomatic course of
White House staffer Morton
Penn Kemble, Washington spokesman for the
action for the United States as a means of
C. Blackwell has been placed
neoconservative Institute on Religion and
addressing the war in El Salvador and a
in charge of drumming up
Democracy, acknowledges thai his bipartisan
method of reversing the dangerous course
support for the President's
institute has a strong interest in foreign policy that
of U.S.-Nicaraguan relations."
Central American policies.
parallels that of the Reagan Administration.
Roach argued that U.S. policy toward
Nicaragua "has the effect of deepening
school. Referring to those who would not
League, whose estimate that Reagan won
internal crises in the country and escalat-
stand to benefit from a tax credit, he
almost 40 per cent of the Jewish vote in
ing the dangers of war in the region." He
argued, "These families are the very poor
1980 may be a bit high, said in an inter-
condemned "a string of U.S. actions
who are in the most need of help."
view that the disagreements with Reagan
reaching from unrelentingly hostile pol-
On at least one issue, Reagan and the
were on matters of lesser priority.
icy rhetoric, through U.S. actions to pre-
Catholic bishops are in lockstep: the ef-
"Most Jewish organizations frown
vent Nicaragua from obtaining credit
fort to reverse the Supreme Court's 1973
upon prayers in the schools and tuition
and loans in international institutions to
decision legalizing abortion under some
tax credits," Perlmutter said. "Most Jew-
funding of covert activities on the Nicara-
circumstances. Although a "pro-life"
ish groups that have spoken to the issue
guan border."
constitutional amendment fell 17 votes
are for free choice on abortion. Jews have
But Reagan's penchant for bellicose
short of the required two-thirds majority
maintained their constancy of opposition
confrontation with the Soviet Union and
in the Senate on June 28, the bishops
to the blending of church and state. But
its allies is one of the qualities that helps
counted it "a distinct step forward" to
nonetheless, responsive to other issues,
him attract the votes of conservative
have forced "the Senate's first clear vote
Jewish votes went to a Republican candi-
NATIONAL JOURNAL 8/20/83 1729
Pass the Plate on the Way to the Polls
The Rev. Jerry Falwell
He recalled that late in 1979,
stresses that his Moral Major-
Falwell asked everyone in his
ity Inc., "made up of millions
Thomas Road Baptist Church
of Americans, including
in Lynchburg, Va., to stand up
72,000 ministers, priests and
if they were 18 or older.
rabbis," is not a political party
"He then told them: 'You
and does not endorse political
are in the House of the Lord,
candidates.
and I expect you to be hon-
Falwell does, however, con-
est," Blackwell said. "If you
sider the Moral Majority to be
are registered to vote at your
a political organization, and,
current address, sit down. If
as such, it has plenty of enthu-
not, remain standing."
siastic friends in the White
"Falwell then had informa-
House of Ronald Reagan, who
tion on where and how to reg-
seems quite likely to be a po-
ister passed out to the roughly
litical candidate again in
Rev. Jerry Falwell
half of his congregation that,
1984.
had remained standing. From the pulpit, he said, 'I don't
One of those fans is Morton C. Blackwell, a special
think I should tell you how to vote, but I do think I should tell
assistant to the President in charge of maintaining smooth
you that it is your Christian duty to register and vote.' He
relations with groups such as the Moral Majority. On the eve
then warned them that the same exercise would be repeated
of a presidential election year, it is not unusual to find the
at the following Sunday's service, and the Sunday after that
fancy of a White House aide turning to subjects like voter
and the Sunday after that.
registration.
"Then he packaged that technique and sent it to thousands
In a recent conversation, Blackwell spoke admiringly of
of pastors across the country, many of whom employed it in
the voter registration exploits of Falwell, which are widely
their churches. I have seen estimates that this effort alone
believed to have reaped great benefit for Reagan in 1980 and
resulted in anywhere from two million to five million new
are very likely to be employed for the same purpose in 1984.
voter registrations."
date in numbers not recently matched."
position to various desegregation reme-
league's Washington representative, also
The most striking thing about the Jew-
dies, including affirmative action hiring
has been involved in supplying the White
ish vote in 1980 was not how much of it
plans that appear to set racial quotas.
House with information about PLO ties
Reagan won but how little Carter re-
Although current affirmative action
to the leftist Sandinist regime in Nicara-
ceived. "For the first time since 1924, a
programs try to assure a fair share of
gua and in airing charges of anti-Semitic
Democratic candidate for President did
employment opportunity for groups that
actions taken by the Nicaraguan regime.
not pull 50 per cent of the Jewish vote,"
once suffered from discrimination, many
That information has been seized upon
Perlmutter said.
Jews point out that quota systems have
by the White House public liaison office
In spite of Carter's outspoken support
been used in the past to limit opportuni-
for use in its outreach briefings to explain
for Soviet dissidents and his engineering
ties for minorities. All three of Reagan's
the basis of the Administration's policy of
of the Camp David accord between Israel
civil rights nominees share the Adminis-
covert aid to anti-Sandinist rebels. Rabbi
and Egypt, his Middle East policies were
tration's aversion to quotas.
Morton M. Rosenthal, Latin affairs di-
less popular among Jews than those of
However, there is division within the
rector for the league, spoke at a July 20
any President since Eisenhower, accord-
Jewish community on this issue. Some
White House briefing, as did Isaac
ing to Fisher's assessment. Arms sales to
prominent Jews have joined civil rights
Stavisky, an exiled member of the Nica-
Saudi Arabia, overtures to the Palestine
leaders who are strenuously trying to
raguan Jewish community.
Liberation Organization (PLO) by
block the confirmation of Reagan's nomi-
Reagan also addressed the meeting,
United Nations Ambassador Andrew
nees on the ground that the White House
and the league issued a press release the
Young and Billy Carter's graceless rela-
is attempting to assert improper control
next day quoting him as follows: "The
tions with Libyan businessmen all con-
over an independent commission. The
results of the self-proclaimed blood unity
tributed to Carter's loss of Jewish sup-
Religious Action Center of the Union of
between the Sandinistas and the PLO are
port. He still won the Jewish vote,
American Hebrew Congregations re-
evident for all the world to see and are an
however, amassing 47 per cent to Rea-
cently issued a statement opposing Rea-
evil echo of history: Virtually the entire
gan's 34 per cent.
gan's action, signed by black, Hispanic
Jewish community of Nicaragua has
Having shown sympathy to the Reagan
and Jewish leaders. Among the 30 signers
been frightened into exile. Their syna-
cause in 1980, however, Jewish lobbyists
were 13 Jews, four of them rabbis.
gogue, which had its doors scorched by
have good entree at the White House
This, however, did not deter Perlmut-
Sandinista supporters in 1978, has since
today. Often, their interests and those of
ter from adamantly justifying his support
been confiscated.
Please share the
the Administration coincide.
of Reagan's position. "I've spent a life-
truth that Communism in Central Amer-
Perlmutter, for example, met recently
time fighting racial quotas and fighting
ica means not only the loss of political
with White House chief of staff James A.
racism," he said. "I haven't grown more
freedom but of religious freedom as
Baker III to plan strategy for seeking
conservative because I'm fighting racial
well."
Senate confirmation of three controver-
quotas today. Many of us feel that we are
sial Reagan nominees to the Civil Rights
being consistent, that it is the ground
KEEPING THE FAITH
Commission. The commission has been
under us that has moved to the left."
During his first two years in office,
highly critical of the Administration's op-
David A. Brody, the anti-defamation
President Reagan came under frequent
1730 NATIONAL JOURNAL 8/20/83
criticism from the right for not vigorously
Committee. I told them, 'We'll just
trolled House's reluctance to initiate ac-
advancing the social agenda.
see.''
tion on the measure.
Among those content to see such issues
Over the next 48 hours, "our various
Blackwell also noted that a White
as abortion and school prayer remain dor-
networks went to work," Blackwell said.
House working group had been formed to
mant, there is a feeling that the Presi-
One aspect of that work was the regular
respond to concerns raised by an "anti-
dent's conservative religious followers
broadcast of television evangelist Pat
pornography coalition," largely made up
will be disillusioned. Perlmutter, for ex-
Robertson on the day following the White
of religious leaders, that met with the
ample, said, "Politically, it's no secret
House meeting. "He gave a little civics
President on March 28.
that for all of the President's supportive
lecture on how the legislative process
Cal Thomas, vice president for com-
rhetoric, there has not been the kind of
works. He made his position on school
munications for Falwell's Moral Majority
purposefulness in the pursuit of these
prayer very clear, but then he urged his
Inc., said in an interview that his orga-
ends as one saw on Reaganomics or on the
audience, 'Whether you are for it or
nization was well satisfied with the White
MX missile."
against it, you should communicate your
House's legislative efforts.
Kelley of the National Council of
view to your Senator."
"We're issue oriented, not candidate
Churches echoed that sentiment. "Presi-
Blackwell said that "hundreds and
oriented," Thomas said, "but obviously
dent Reagan hasn't really expended a
hundreds of telephone calls came into
Jerry [Falwell] believes that Reagan em-
great deal of political capital to advance
nearly every office." On July 14, the
bodies the issues that are of concern to us.
these causes," he said. "He gives them a
Judiciary Committee voted, 14-3, to send
So with that definition, I don't think there
certain amount of lip service and makes
the President's school prayer amendment
is any question but that Falwell is going to
speeches about them. And, as election
and a so-called silent prayer proposal to
be behind the President if he seeks re-
time nears, he has to make a somewhat
the floor without recommendation.
election." (See box, p. 1730.)
greater effort to convince that constitu-
Blackwell said he considered it "a 90 per
Reichley notes that the Moral Major-
ency that he is really serving their inter-
cent victory" to simply get the measures
ity and other elements of the Reagan
ests.
to the floor, where each Senator could be
coalition have been organized with "more
"But I predicted at the time that he
required to take a public stand on the
political sophistication and less insular-
was elected that they would get the same
issue. Citing a public opinion survey on
ity" than previous fundamentalist move-
sort of service that the Evangelicals got
support for the concept, Blackwell said,
ments. "The religious New Right," he
from Jimmy Carter. They supported him
"There are not very many Senators who
said, "has taken care to avoid overt Γac-
because they thought he was a fervent
are going to want to go home and tell 84
ism and has formed alliances with some
Evangelical, which I dare say he is, but it
per cent of the churchgoers in their state
Catholics, on the abortion issue, and
didn't produce much in the way of politi-
that they are against little children hav-
Jews, through support for Israel."
cal results, for them or for him."
ing the right to prayer."
In American politics, religious issues
The White House's Blackwell, how-
ever, insists that Reagan is not repeating
the Carter pattern. "All indications show
that Carter had a clear margin with the
fundamentalist Protestants in 1976," he
said, "and he lost them over four years,
carrying only one state-Georgia-in the
South in 1980."
Blackwell said the Administration
would be able to demonstrate progress, if
not success, on all of the social issues
upon which Reagan campaigned in 1980.
The abortion amendment has proceeded
to a floor vote in the Senate, and school
prayer and tuition tax credits also are
expected to come up for Senate votes
before the end of the year.
Catholic Bishop James P.
Nathan Perlmutter, national director of the B'nai
He noted that the White House had
Lyke says the President's
B'rith Anti-Defamation League, says that Reagan
been working closely with grass-roots co-
tuition tax credit proposal
did unusually well among Jewish voters in 1980
alitions that support the social agenda
should include cash grants
because Jews' disagreements with Reagan were
and had produced results that have sur-
for families.
usually on matters of low priority.
prised their opponents. Church leaders
were brought to Washington for a strat-
If the amendment is approved by the
and religious groupings have long been
egy meeting with Reagan on July 12, two
Senate, Blackwell said, the White House
seized upon as convenient ways to iden-
days before the Senate Judiciary Com-
will pursue a discharge petition strategy
tify and woo potential voting blocs. Reli-
mittee was to vote on the school prayer
in the House, where school prayer ap-
gious leaders have never hesitated to
amendments. At that gathering, Reagan
pears to be bottled up in the Judiciary
plunge into the marketplace of political
consolidated support by accepting a revi-
Committee.
ideas with the goal of advancing their
sion barring government-written prayers,
Blackwell also said that plans were
own visions of improving public morality.
supported by the Southern Baptist Con-
already in the works to try to bring the
But at the same time, most studies and
vention.
tuition tax credit legislation, which has
surveys indicate that the majority of
"The evening after our meeting,"
been approved by the Senate Finance
American voters, whatever their religious
Blackwell recounted, "experts on Capitol
Committee, to a floor vote as an amend-
attachments, generally feel free to vote
Hill were telling us that we would never
ment to a "suitable House-passed reve-
quite independently of the church or po-
get the 10 votes necessary to get school
nue bill." In this way, the White House
litical leaders who try to capture their
prayer out of the 18-member Judiciary
hopes to get around the Democratic-con-
support as members of a bloc or group.
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Senate Joint Resolution 179
James Madison, one of the framers of the U.S. Constitution, explained the nature of the American republic "We
have staked the whole future of the American civilization not upon the power of government, far from it! We have staked
the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves,
and to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."
On February 3, 1983 President Ronald W. Reagan proclaimed 1983 as the YEAR OF THE BIBLE signifying the
importance of the Bible upon our nation and his administration.
Benjamin Franklin made the statement during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, that "we have not hitherto one
thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understanding. In the beginning of the contest with
Great Britain, when we were sensible to danger, we had daily prayers in this room for divine protection. Our prayers,
were heard, and they were graciously answered. do we imagine that we no longer need His assistance? I have lived
sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proof I see of this truth - that God governs the affairs of men,
and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable an empire can rise without his aid?
We have been assured sir, in the sacred writing that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build
it. I firmly believe this."
On May 5, 1983 President Ronald W. Reagan proclaimed a National Day of Prayer. It has often been said that
"those who pray together stay together." Therefore, we the people of the United States and those of the U.S. House of
Representatives and the U.S. Senate who believe in the principles of truth and the power of prayer do submit a resolution
that a room be made available for a chapel in the White House, and:
WHEREAS, Many of the founding fathers of America felt that the principles of truth and the power of prayer were
essential to making America great, and;
WHEREAS, The founding fathers of America found it imperative to seek wisdom and guidance from one greater than
they, and;
WHEREAS, The founding fathers of America staked the future of the American civilization not upon the power of
government, but upon the Word of God and prayer, and;
WHEREAS, Chapel and Chaplains have been used in many places of government such as in the U.S. House, the U.S.
Senate, the military, hospitals and many prisons for the past 200 years, and;
WHEREAS, in 1982 the U.S. Congress proclaimed the Bible to be the Word of God, and;
WHEREAS, the U.S. Supreme Court made the decision in July of 1983 to continue the use of chapels and chaplains in
government, and;
WHEREAS, On February 3, 1983, President Ronald W. Reagan proclaimed 1983 as the YEAR OF THE BIBLE, and;
WHEREAS, a chapel and chaplain have never been made available to the many White House personnel.
Resolved therefore by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled,
that the President is authorized and requested to designate a room in the White House as a place for a chapel to be used
by all White House personnel and by all incoming administrations and to be furnished by the voluntary contributions of
the citizens of the United States.
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Dear Mr. Blackwell:
I thank you for taking the time to talk with our
group from Luther. Your talk was extremely fasci-
nating from both an institutional and a personal
perspective. And it was really exciting to talk
with you one day and read about you in the Post
the following day. I realize it must have been
particularly busy for you at the time of our arrival,
and I appreciate your willingness still to meet
and talk with us.
I hope that your work with conservatives continues
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efforts.
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press corps today.
member of the House Committee on
merely distort the news.
O'Malley's testimony of more - and
Intelligence.
They could be into mild trouble for
unidentified - KGB agents in the local
Young held a news conference in
failing to register as foreign agents. But
media casts a cloud on the Washington
December to release the Intelligence
only if they begin dealing in classified
press corps. Given the recent unmasking
committee's document Soviet Active
material can they be prosecuted for
of KGB accredited reporter media agents
Measures, and to introduce to the media,
espionage.
in France, Sweden and North Africa, this
a formerly accredited Russian newsman
If the FBI invokes the Foreign Agents
can hardly be dismissed with any scorn.
in Japan, Maj. Stanislav Levchenko of the
Registration Act, it can be very embar-
KGB.
rassing if the charges prove true and any
Maj. Levchenko is the highest ranking
media organization fails to discharge a
KGB officer involved in "Active
Soviet spy in its employ. But the FBI is
Measures" who has ever defected to the
"How delicious it
apparently more inclined to keep them
West. (Active Measures is an intelligence
under surveilance and possibly catch
must have been for a
category which includes all operations
them and their control officers, in actual
Red under the bed to
intended to effect policy change in a
espionage.
targeted nation.)
This may be appropriate strategy in
deride Joe McCarthy
Those reporters who did attend this
counterintelligence. But it surely has a
news conference concentrated on asking
for looking for Reds
frightening effect upon the dissemination
questions about the nuclear freeze
of news in the United States - where, as
under the bed.'
campaign, which, Young kept telling
the FBI and CIA know from experience,
them, began after Levchenko defected.
the media have awesome power.
By striking contrast to the Big U.S.
Until the top leaders of Big Media are
Media decision to make this a non-event
willing to put national security and
But O'Malley's testimony casts some
in the U.S., the Japanese media were not
accuracy ahead of both profit, as well as
degree of suspicion on thousands of U.S.
only fascinated, but they allowed the
labor peace with a liberal-dominated
journalists. And Florida's Rep. C.W. (Bill)
Japanese public to share their knowledge
press corps, not much is liable to change
Young, when asked why he thinks
as well. (Rep. Young, at the Levchenko
until the first major Soviet spy is caught
O'Malley won't be specific, replied:
news conference, kept asking "Don't the
and exposed in their midst.
"It may have to do with protecting
American people have a right to know this
Until then, the American public should
sources. But I think the FBI may be afraid
information?"
not only take the Big Media with a large
of the media. The Bureau has taken a lot
The scandal of Soviet spies in the
grain of salt- but with the realization that
of lumps."
Washington press corps is all the more
America's Fourth Estate salad may often
Young is a seven-term Republican
frustrating because very little effective
be served with Russian dressing.
congressman from St. Petersburg who is a
action can be taken against them if they
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Moral Theology
The Wrong Rev.
Ronald Reagan
The President has virtually given up going to church — in favor of such
astounding ecclesiastical pronouncements as balancing-the-budget-with-the-
Ten-Commandments. Who is responsible for this, the "Squeal Rule" and the
"Monstrosity Preservation Policy"?
38 Washington Guide
nflation, interest rates and gaso-
line prices are all down - way
down from where they were
during the Jimmy Carter Administration.
Housing starts, automobile sales and
the stock market have all been going up
- on Wall Street, way, way up.
The tragic rate of unemployment is
beginning to show its first sign of falling.
And unless the House Democratic
leadership is successful in its apparent
effort to sabotage it, the United States
may be on the way to an effective re-
armament, in a race where being Number
Two means you can try as hard as you
want, but have no more hope than
Afghanistan.
President Reagan, despite his being
savaged each and every day by such Big
Liberal Media as the Washington Post,
TOP O'
continues to charm nearly everybody
who is not an occupational or ideological
Reagan-hater.
THE TOWN
The American people as a whole surely
(and for good cause) trust Reagan more
than they do the Big Media. And they like
him ever so much more.
With all these things going for him, it
may be reasonably asked why in God's
name Mr. Reagan persists in his ab-
solutely astounding advocacy of absurd
sex ethics and incredible moral theology.
Serving lunch
It began early this year, when Mr.
Reagan told the National Religious
and dinner daily,
Broadcasters: "Has anyone stopped to
consider that we might come closer to
brunch on Sunday.
balancing the budget, if all of us simply
tried to live up to the Ten Command-
ments and the Golden Rule?"
Aside from whichever White House
speechwriter wrote this, we can think of
no one at all (in either American history - -
or possibly even Moses) who ever before
considered this particular theory of what
might be termed ecclesiastical economics.
Certainly Larry Speakes hasn't. For
when asked about this during a daily
White House news briefing - specifically
about how President Reagan is going
about trying to live up to the Fourth
Commandment - this Presidential
spokesman was quite clearly uninformed
as to what the Fourth Commandment is.
(Whether Keeping The Sabbath Holy
is, in your faith, Saturday or Sunday,
Ronald Reagan, who always attended
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church before he was inaugurated, did
not darken a single church door for
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And when inquirers about this are told by
White Housers that it is due to security
considerations, they should ask imme-
diately what security did that Boston all-
male bar have, into which Our Leader
strode unscheduled in order to hoist a
giant stein of beer?)
Two days after promulgating The
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I asked the affable Edwards how he
Balderdash: White House Special Assis-
"The Year of The Bible."
believes that an embryo, which is
tant to The President (For Religious
Highly entertaining reactions can be
attached to the wall of the uterus, goes
Liaison) Morton Blackwell.
obtained from skittish spokesmen at the
about "pursuing happiness."
Mr. Blackwell was, prior to his Eleva-
White House, the State Department and
CONGRESSMAN EDWARDS: I don't
tion by Presidential Appointment, a very
the Pentagon - by simply quoting these
know. Maybe they have interuterine ping
congenial pamphleteer; who published a
pious pronouncements from the Com-
pong.
periodical called The Right Report.
mander-In-Chief and asking specifically
Currently, however, Mort refuses to
how these organizations of the Reagan
return phone calls, or to reply to letters, or
Administration are going to observe "The
even to say anything to inquiring re-
Year of The Bible.'
porters when he makes public appear-
(Larry Speakes offered to meet me at
ances. This even applies to inquiring
only
7:00 a.m. for Bible reading - but I
clergy.
to
learned from authoritative sources on his
For under the tutelage of Mort and
staff that he arrives at 7:30 a.m.)
without benefit of clergy, other than
them
Hardly hours after "The Year of The
occasional visitors such as Doctors Billy
if
Bible," Our Leader appeared before the
("I saw no repression in Russia") Graham
National Conservative Political Action
and Jerry Falwell, the President has been
like
Conference where he declared that "If
pushing the disastrously embarrassing
the unborn child is a living entity," then it
and judicially flawed teenage contra-
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has the right to "life, liberty and the
ceptive-use "Squeal Rule."
pursuit of happiness."
For the Great Communicator who
Being unable to ask the President any
promised to "get the government off our
they
are
questions about this in-utero bill of rights,
backs" to now inject government into
(and at the last Presidential news con-
teen age ovaries is one of the more
vaporte
ference, being told by Larry Speakes that
glorious triumphs of the Far Righteous.
I was one reporter the President would
Under this Squeal Rule, all teenagers
using prescription contraceptives from
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historic first), I sought out and found one
any government financed clinic must be
of Mr. Reagan's most ardent supporters,
reported to their parents.
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Since no boys we have ever heard of
use any prescription contraceptives such
as IUDs, diaphragms, or pills, this is a
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to equal protection. On the other hand,
since the U.S. Navy's 6,000 17 year-old
sailors and Marines can obtain U.S.
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boys?
And what about the newest vistas of
parental control? In Alburquerque, for
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sentence drunk drivers to spend nights at
home, rather than going to jail. It is an
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central locater downtown if the wearer
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a letter to the Department of Health and
Human Services which suggested that the
Squeal Rule might result in an unpre-
cendented wave of unplanned parent-
hood:
"We fear that enactment of such a
regulation would discourage many young
people from utilizing these services and
would result in a dramatic increase in the
Trudie Ball's
number of teenage pregnancies."
Only ten months later, however, this
very same Margaret Heckler did what the
Boston Herald reported as "An About
Face On The Squeal Rule." She put her
conscience in cold storage - for an
$80,000. job.
And by an overwhelming majority -
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Everett Koop, who is the Surgeon
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Anyone who has ever seen an infant
hydrocephalic, or microcephalic, or even
more horribly deformed product of birth,
can understand why these tragedies are
generally known as monstrosities.
I can recall quite vividly seeing a 14
year-old hydrocephalic whose head was
six times the size of the rest of his body,
and whose entire life had consisted of
lying on a bed and gurgling.
A microcephalic has a head that is so
tiny as to preclude any sort of functioning
brain. And some other products of birth
are so horribly deformed that physicians
and nurses - out of mercy and a need to
spare the mother an extreme trauma -
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mother.
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Fortunately, a Federal Court order has set
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of the Firenze
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President Reagan, who once signed
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abortion bills, has changed his mind once
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church, regularly, and getting out of the
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moral clutches of Mr. Blackwell. He might
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even be inspired to conclude that God
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Taxation
The Richmond Times Dispatch
LYNDA BIRD ROBB
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Johnson's two daughters, Lynda and Luci.
"I don't think that figure will
the world as Lynda Bird Robb, the First
Such information might, as Mr. Barr
Lady of the State of Virginia - and her
interest the public one iota."
claims, not be of interest to the public -
25,000 shares are worth $1,286,400.
r. Barr is the president of a
except for certain facts:
* Mr. Barr is President of the LBJ Co. of
M
corporation whose leading share-
* Claudia T. Johnson is much better
Austin. And in order to try to avoid a
holder is Claudia T. Johnson of
known to the world as "Lady Bird,"
$912,000 loss, the LBJ Co., has recently
Stonewall, Texas. Mrs. Johnson owns
widow of a President of the United States
decided to donate one of its properties,
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understand. cherish and abide by the principles of
liberty. We believe those principles include:
~ Personal integrity
~ Lawfulness
Persuasion
~ Economic self-reliance
~ Respect for property
- A decent regard for one's neighbor
~ A commitment to the sanctity of the family
When any of these principles is widely disregarded.
the free society is eroded and the viability of capi-
talism diminished. Persuasion A1 Work reports on
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Vol. v, No. 2
February 1982
SECULAR HUMANISM: RIGHT-WING BOGEYMAN,
OR THREAT TO HUMAN PROGRESS?
Readers of this newsletter are familiar with our
humanism. The rhetoric is usually strong. "Humanism
effort to alert the business community to the activ-
is satanic in origin," one commentator states. "The
ities of organizations and publications which
blood of the martyrs in the twentieth century has
operate outside the usual notice of business leaders,
been shed in the struggle against the forces of
but which nevertheless have a profound influence on
humanistic systems and ideologies," declares another.¹
productivity and profitability. This month, we
Conspiracy theories also abound. One minister has
present a broadly focused essay by Allan Carlson
suggested that 275,000 humanists "have infiltrated
offering essential background for understanding the
[the United States] until every department of our
extensive religious ferment, on both the right and
country is controlled by the humanists."2 The
left, that has been given sharp new visibility by the
signers of Secular Humanist Manifestoes I and II are
Moral Majority's day in the sun. As we observed
frequently cited as the militant core of this campaign.
earlier (Persuasion At Work, September 1981), this
Author Claire Chambers has suggested that the Sex
"religionization of politics" may well determine the
Information and Education Council of the United
agenda of public issues for the 1980's. Next month,
States (SIECUS), founded in 1964, represents an
we will be reporting on several new organizations
organized humanistic "conspiracy against Chris-
and publications that bring fresh intellectual vitality
tianity and Civilization" that goes even deeper than
and theological support to traditional American
the threat of communism.³
economic, political and cultural values.
In dismissing such charges, the liberal media
John A. Howard, President
has recently developed a twofold response. On the
one hand, they suggest that the whole controversy
is much ado about nothing. According to Charles
Krauthammer in The New Republic, the Right's
Over the past few years. the "secular humanism"
focus on humanism suggests a "paranoia," a "poten-
controversy has become thoroughly muddled in a
tially dangerous" reaction to a broadly caused and
linguistic and historical swamp. Numerous conser-
apparently irreversible "decline in religious values."
vatives, particularly the so-called New Right. have
The principal organization of avowed secular
attributed rapidly growing levels of crime, drug
humanists in the United States. the American
abuse, sexual promiscuity, pornography and other
Humanist Association, is described as a small band
indices of social decay to the spread of secular
of semicranks who have wandered into "the same
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political wilderness as the militant vegetarians and
On the other hand, there are the partisans of
agrarian anarchists." Their magazine, the Humanist,
what we now call secular humanism. For these per-
"shares the same intellectual marginality," according
sons, God may or may not exist. In either case, He
to Krauthammer, while the 1973 Humanist Mani-
has been irrelevant to the human condition. As a
festo II is dismissed as "the creed one might
result, law and moral standards are seen as human
expect of a socially conscious, passionately naive
creations, responsive to tradition, social change and
microbiology major." Newsweek magazine describes
contemporary needs. The advocates of this world
the "secular humanist" hullabaloo as a classic case of
view place their faith in science, human reason and
"the paranoid style in American politics," where
human intervention as the source of solutions to all
fundamentalists "seem to have created a conspiracy
social problems. They understand human nature to
where none actually exists."5
be either neutral - "a blank slate" - or essentially
On the other hand, the same sources tend to
good, while their equivalent of "evil" is understood
argue that Western "secularism" has in fact been the
to be the result of improper social and institutional
source of human progress, with religious intolerance
relationships. On a bolder note, many humanists
its primary opponent. For example, Newsweek
argue that man can strive for perfection.
equates secular humanism with "the root values of
In one sense, this conflict is as old as revealed
Western culture and the tradition of Christian
religion itself. Turning to the book of Genesis, we
humanism that lies at its core," while the religious
find the serpent tempting Eve with the forbidden
fundamentalists are cast as "rejecting the entire
fruit, stating that "God doth know that in the day ye
Western tradition."
eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye
Behind all this rhetorical smoke, what is the
shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." This
controversy actually about? Is it merely cranks
understanding of the "fallen nature" of man contrasts
battling cranks? Or are more profound principles
obedience to God's command with humankind's
involved? Is there a conspiracy? What relevance does
striving to be equal to - and independent of -
the clash hold for the economic and cultural environ-
God, thereby casting Eve as the first secular humanist.
ment affecting the American business community?
More directly, the intellectual history of West-
ern civilization can be understood as the shifting
A Fundamental Clash
focus of conflict between these two world views.
Western Christian civilization, which emerged above
Let's first get our terms straight. In a pure
the ruins of the Greco-Roman world, rested on a
sense, the current "secular humanism" imbroglio is
God-centered theological structure first systematized
only the most recent expression of a fundamental
by Saint Augustine in the fifth century, A.D., and
philosophical chasm that has marked Western civili-
brought to fruition in the work of Thomas Aquinas
zation for over 500 years. Simply put, our civiliza-
tion has harbored two distinct views of humankind
and Dante Alighieri eight centuries later. What
historians call the Renaissance, however, repre-
and the universe which are incapable of reconciliation.
sented "essentially a new birth of secularism."
On the one hand, there are the believers in
Starting in the 1300's, it embodied a revived study of
revealed religion. For them, a transcendent God has
the pre-Christian Greek and Roman texts and a con-
repeatedly stepped into human history. Fundamental
centration on the material world, nature, the exalta-
law and moral standards are seen as God-given,
tion of human life and the efficacy of human reason.
eternal and unchanging. History, it is true, suggests
When the Church itself began to internalize this
varying interpretations and sometimes bloody dif-
man-centered, mildly secularized intellectual move-
ferences among believers over what messages have in
ment, it was the reformers - Luther and Calvin -
fact been sent from God. Yet there has been a con-
who demanded a rejection of "that clever harlot,"
sistent agreement that all human activities are ulti-
human reason, and a return to a life focused on the
mately subject to judgment by the Supreme Being. In
Word of God and exhibiting faithfulness to His
addition, those who hold to this world view under-
revealed will. The so-called Counter Reformation -
stand human nature to be corrupt and sinful, a con-
Roman Catholicism's attempt to blunt the Protestant
cept that Christians label "original sin." Evil is
rebellion - also represented an effort to purge
understood to reside to some degree within every
humanistic tendencies within the Church and return
human being. Left alone, men and women will
it to God's revealed truth. Finally, in the eighteenth
destroy themselves.
century, the intellectual movement known as the
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Enlightenment reasserted the humanistic world view
their great reserves of mercy and sacrifice." Only
in an increasingly secularized and successful fashion.
recovery of the concept of "a Supreme Complete
It was joined by the triumph of the scientific method,
Entity" and "the voluntary nurturing in ourselves of
which seemed to limit "truth" to those matters that
freely accepted and serene self-restraint," Solzhenit-
could be proven through impartial, natural evidence.
syn concluded, could redeem humankind from the
twentieth century's moral poverty.¹²
In this century, the conflict between "revealed
religion" and "secular humanism" has also involved
It seems fair to conclude that the "secular-
the most profound thinkers of our age. In his 1957
humanism" controversy involves more than cranks
essay, Why I Am Not a Christian, philosopher
battling cranks.
Bertrand Russell declared "all the great religions of
the world
both untrue and harmful" and charged
American Culture in Transition
that faith in revealed truth left young minds "stunted"
Until some time in the early twentieth century,
and "filled with fanatical hostility."8 Biologist Julian
the United States could still be fairly labeled a
Huxley, in a wartime address to the British nation,
Judeo-Christian nation. A primary purpose of our
termed scientific humanism "a spur to effort by
educational system, for example, remained the train-
reminding man that he is now the sole trustee for
ing of young people in a God-given set of values
any further progress to be made by life. "") John
designed to guide human behavior towards enriching
Dewey, whose influence on American philosophy
and spiritually fulfilling ends. Laws governing mar-
and educational theory has been almost incalculable,
riage and the family in virtually every state pre-
rejected revealed religion out of hand, arguing
sumed the Judeo-Christian ideal of a monogamous
instead that "There is but one sure road of access to
heterosexual union, involving a lifetime marital
truth - the road of patient, cooperative [scientific]
commitment, procreation as an essential element in
inquiry operating by means of observation, experi-
the relationship, and a sex-determined division of
ment, record and controlled reflection." In place of
labor within the family.¹³
religious doctrine, he advocated a common human-
istic faith involving allegiance to "ideal ends" which
Such examples could be multiplied a hundred-
"the human will" considered "worthy of controlling
fold. Indeed, the tensions and strains generated by
our desires and choices."
recent efforts to transform an American cultural
structure resting on Judeo-Christian principles into a
One finds equally extraordinary people on the
structure resting on the humanistic world view
other side of this century's debate. Poet T. S. Eliot
undergird the most emotional public debates of our
saw the Western world facing a choice between the
time. These range from disagreements over which
formation of a new Christian culture or the accep-
philosophy should govern public education to the
tance of a pagan one. And it was adherence to
abortion controversy, from disagreements on how to
revealed truth, he insisted, which differentiated the
combat crime to the debate over vouchers for reli-
former from the latter. "[1]t is only by returning to
gious schools. In every case, such controversies can
the eternal source of truth," Eliot wrote, "that we
be logically reduced to unbridgeable differences
can hope for any social organisation which will not,
about the nature of man, the source of truth, the
to its ultimate destruction, ignore some essential
existence of evil and the reality of God. Put simply,
aspect of reality. Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, in his
the "secular humanism" debate - the conflict
1978 address at Harvard University, made a similar
between belief and unbelief - retains the labels
point. "The humanistic way of thinking" did not
admit the intrinsic evil in man, he asserted. The
given it by the early nineteenth-century German
poet, Goethe, as "the real, the deepest, the sole
Renaissance, while historically "inevitable," had
theme of the world and of history to which all other
started Western civilization on "the dangerous trend
themes are subordinate."
of worshipping man and his material needs." When
the United States was founded, he noted, freedom
Some recent commentators, it is true, have
was still "given to the individual conditionally, in the
tended to oversimplify both the issues involved and
assumption of his constant religious responsibility."
the identities of the contemporary protagonists. For
Yet such limitations had eroded with the spread of
example, there is (in this author's judgment) no
"an autonomous, irreligious humanistic conscious-
"humanist conspiracy" to take over the nation, in the
ness." As a result, "a total emancipation occurred
accepted meaning of that phrase. The reality is that
from the moral heritage of Christian centuries with
self-declared secular humanists - ranging from the
early American disciples of Karl Marx, Charles Dar-
between "a continued and even more systematic
win and Sigmund Freud to such diverse twentieth-
laissez faire depreciation of [human] intelligence" by
century figures as John Dewey, sex educator Mary
Christianity and "conscious and organized effort" to
Calderone, psychologist Carl Rogers, economist
turn human knowledge toward "larger human pur-
Gunnar Myrdal, feminist Betty Friedan and psy-
poses," the unvarying socialist goal. 15
chologist B. F. Skinner - have successfully man-
aged through the free competition of ideas to win
Solzhenitsyn makes essentially the same point,
dominance over most of this nation's intellectual
finding a common foundation underlying both
centers and have largely reshaped the American pub-
socialism and "eroded humanism"; namely bound-
lic education system and numerous other cultural
less materialism, freedom from religion and religious
structures in line with their world view. For the most
responsibility and concentration on social structures
part, it has been a fair fight. Many "mainline"
through an allegedly scientific approach. He adds
Christian and Jewish apologists, their own faith
that "the current of materialism which is farthest to
worn thin and their intellectual traditions largely
the left, and is hence the most consistent, always
exhausted, succumbed with little more than a
proves to be the stronger, more attractive, and vic-
whimper. Elsewhere, the humanists secured this
torious." For this reason, Solzhenitsyn concludes,
fundamental reorientation through arguments ap-
Western secular humanism must ultimately succumb
pealing more effectively to human pride and intellect
to its communistic philosophical cousin.¹ 16
than those of their remaining opponents. In a free
Second, secular humanism has proven to have
society, the situation can be reversed only through a
no effective defense against nihilism and amorality.
similar process of intellectual and spiritual conversion.
At their best, the basic secular-humanist texts offer
an attractive and ennobling vision of human poten-
tial. And it is undeniable that many strong and
Should Business Care?
courageous individuals have sacrificed their energy
What relevance does this intricate, divisive,
and lives to advance that vision in concrete ways.
even explosive, debate hold for American business?
Yet it is increasingly clear that a free society com-
In a word: enormous.
posed of millions of individuals cannot exist without
a strong basis of commonly held values and that
First, secular humanism manifests an intrinsic
secular humanism is incapable of providing that
tendency toward socialism and anticapitalism. This
basis. Dewey the humanist had faith that there was
linkage is not another "right-wing fantasy," but
"at least enough impulse toward justice, kindliness,
rather a truth that flows from the basic assumptions
and order" among mankind that when these senti-
behind the humanistic world view. No less a person-
ments were mobilized to action, "disorder, cruelty,
age than John Dewey frankly states that both reli-
and oppression" could be reduced. 17 Yet an aging
gion and economic laissez faire reflect "a common
Charles Darwin came to understand better the fragil-
tendency," namely the denial "of the possibility of
ity of his secular faith. "A man who has no
radical intervention of [human] intelligence in the
belief in the existence of a personal God or a future
conduct of human life. "14 Christian belief in the
existence with retribution and rewards," he wrote in
existence of evil and in the direct accountability of
his Autobiography, "can have for his rule of life
each individual for his own actions before God
only to follow those impulses and instincts which are
corresponds with capitalism's insistence on strong
the strongest or which seem to him the best ones."
limits to coercive state manipulation of society and
Under such a rubric, human interaction is quickly
its demand for personal responsibility. This stands in
reduced to the law of the jungle, as we have wit-
contrast to the humanist's belief that imperfect social
nessed in the horrors of the Jewish Holocaust, the
conditions cause personal misconduct and that
Stalinist purges and Cambodia's self-inflicted geno-
society as a whole is ultimately accountable for
cide. As the Russian novelist Dostoyevsky once
individual failures. Such views easily translate into
put it, "If there is no God, everything is permitted."
the need for massive government social engineering
guided by human reason to set things right. As
So long as the vast majority of Americans still
Dewey puts it, faith in the supernatural "stands in
accepted the heritage of God-ordained differences
the way of using the means that are in our power to
between good and evil, our society could endure
make radical changes" in social relations. [Emphasis
both the evildoers on its margins and the intellectuals
added.] He insists that a choice must be made
who argued that distinctions between good and evil
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were mere cultural choices. Today, the secularist
capable of any outrage. Reflecting on these two
creed has spread to the point where tens of millions
propositions, seventeenth-century scientist Francis
believe themselves - or any other person or social
Bacon voiced the hope that the West's new knowl-
collective - incompetent to make value judgments,
edge would be "governed by sound reason and true
demanding only that they be left free to choose their
religion." The aging nineteenth-century secularist,
own value system. Individual morality has been cor-
Herbert Spencer, finally acknowledged in his Auto-
respondingly reduced to a matter of therapy, or the
biography that "a cult of some sort
is a consti-
alleviation of personal guilt. In consequence, our
tuent in every society which has made any progress,"
increasingly relativized society is left unarmed against
suggesting that "the control exercised over man's
the brutality of undisciplined and destructive con-
conduct by theological beliefs and priestly agency"
duct. In such an environment, capitalism - with its
was indispensable. In 1937 the president of the
roots in private property, lawfulness and self-re-
American Association for the Advancement of
straint - simply cannot survive.
Science, Edward Conklin, admitted that "as in
former centuries, it is left largely to religious bodies
Third, continued scientific and technological
to defend freedom of thought and conscience while
progress may necessitate a return to Judeo-Christian
great scientific organizations stand mute."
truth. A conviction held by all confirmed secularists
is that it was their predecessors who led the battle
In sum, Judeo-Christian truth appears to have
for scientific knowledge and progress in the Western
both generated and restrained modern science,
world against the superstitions and irrationality of
thereby laying the foundation for all subsequent
the Christian world view. Conversely, they argue that
material and technological progress. In an age when
a resurgence of religious values would again bring
science has placed both the means of mass annihila-
science to its knees.
tion and the very secrets of life in the hands of man,
the restraining influence of revealed truth seems to
In fact, the exact opposites appear to be true.
be needed more than ever.
In his remarkable book, The Road of Science and
the Ways to God, scientist and theologian Stanley
Jaki forcefully argues that the triumph of science in
Capitalism and Western Religion
the Western world occurred because and only be-
cause Christian theism - the concept of a personal,
Overall, it is clear that the relationship between
rational, provident Creator God who ordered a uni-
Western religion and democratic capitalism is far
fied and singular universe on understandable prin-
more complex than most contemporary theologians
ciples - allowed Western scientists to avoid the
or economists would admit. Rather than mutually
"blind alleys" that had cut short scientific inquiry in
independent or antagonistic developments, Judeo-
ancient Greece, India, China and the Islamic world.
Christian mores and capitalism have proven to be
Jaki insists that all great creative advances in science,
history's most effective cultural-economic duality for
from Copernicus to Newton to Einstein, have been
improving humankind's social and material circum-
made within "a cultural matrix" assuming this
stances. Both parts of this symbiosis have been
Creator God and using a methodology closely
weakened or adulterated through relentless attacks
related to the medieval search for the "proofs" of
by their ideological opponents, oftentimes involving
Divine existence in the natural world. 18
those who profess allegiance to the other half of the
duality. Yet since the two social forces serve best
At the same time, Judeo-Christian ethics pro-
when in tandem, each would appear to have a criti-
vided the necessary brake on the inevitable excesses
cal stake in the revitalization of the other.
of the scientific method. Science itself can claim no
inborn source of ethics. And science unrestrained is
-Allan Carlson
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Footnotes
'Ern Baxter, et al., Secular Humanism: Man Striv-
1960), p. 202.
ing to Be God (Mobile, Alabama: Integrity Publications,
10Dewey, A Common Faith, pp. 32-33.
1981), pp. 42, 57.
"T. S. Eliot, "The Idea of a Christian Society." in
2Quoted in Charles Krauthammer, "The Humanist
Christianity and Culture (New York: Harcourt, Brace, &
Phantom," The New Republic, 25 July 1981, p. 21.
World, 1949), pp. 10. 47, 50.
³Claire Chambers. The SIECUS Circle: A Humanist
"Ronald Berman, editor, Solzhenitsyn at Harvard
Revolution (Belmont, Massachusetts: Western Islands,
(Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center,
1977), pp. 138-39.
1980), pp. 3-20.
4Krauthammer, "The Humanist Phantom," pp. 23-25.
13See: Lenore J. Weitzman, "Legal Regulation of
"The Right's New Bogyman." Newsweek, 6 July
Marriage: Tradition and Change," California Law Review
1981. p. 48.
62 (October 1974). pp. 1164-1277.
"Ibid., p. 50.
"Dewey. A Common Faith, p. 78.
'From: John Dewey, A Common Faith (New
¹⁵Ibid, pp. 80, 82.
Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1934), p. 64.
"Solzhenitsyn At Harvard. p. 18.
*Bertrand Russell, Why / Am Not a Christian,
"Dewey, A Common Faith, p. 47.
edited by Paul Edwards (New York: Simon & Schuster,
"Stanley 1.. Jaki, The Road of Science and the
1957), pp. v-vii.
Ways to God (Chicago and London: The University of
Quoted in Franklin L. Baumer, Religion and the
Chicago Press. 1978). pp. 11. 34-46. 321-27.
Rise of Skepticism (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
19Quotes found in Jaki. op. cit., PP. 300. 306-07.
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The Board of Governors of the Greater Clearwater Chamber of
Commerce, having as one of its objectives to discover and correct
abuses which prevent the promotion of business, professional
expansion and community growth, feel that the presence of the
Church of Scientology in the City of Clearwater is harmful to
the overall image of our city, and that its past performance
locally and nationally is cause for investigations by grand
juries, congress and other appropriate agencies.
We take this stand, recognizing that this organization
moved into Clearwater under false pretenses and has been the
center of turmoil in Clearwater for the past four and one-half
years. The organization's own documents on file in U.S. District
Court in Washington show:
--that the organization's move to Clearwater under the
banner of United Churches of Florida was designed to
conceal the true identity of the organization, to con-
tinue the organization's ongoing objective to avoid
the payment of taxes, and the objective was to "take
control" of the City
--Nine members of the organization, including the wife
of the founder, have been convicted of criminal actions
and sentenced to prison terms. Members of the organiza-
tion carried out numerous covert operations against
governmental agencies, and indicated plans to destroy
personal and professional reputations of local citizens
--Scientologists, representing the group's security office,
infiltrated local governmental agencies, businesses,
news media and the Chamber itself. The apparent
purpose of these acts was to gather information and
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--Scientologists attempted to interfere with the free
election process by viciously slandering the former
Mayor of Clearwater and plotted to destroy the
reputations of other community leaders
Therefore, we, the Board of Governors of the Greater Clearwater
Chamber of Commerce, have determined that, because of the recent
indictments of church leaders and the large amount of national
publicity caused by their actions, this group is hindering further
business, professional and community growth, and we appeal for
appropriate investigative action and prosecution by all law
enforcement bodies.
We recognize the right of any organization to live and
co-exist in our community, as long as that organization is law
abiding. Documents released by the Federal court in Washington
show that the Scientologists are not law abiding. Because of this
and because of Scientologists' announced effort to "take control"
of our city, we believe they should not be welcome to remain here.
It is our hope that the people of the City of Clearwater
understand that our policy statement is not intended to incite
violence or to deprive any individual of his civil rights. We
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THE DANGER OF SCIENTOLOGY
A true story
of a victim of
Scientology
BY TERRY PRUEHER
BEFORE SCIENTOLOGY
Before I joined Scientology I was a healthy, happy, normal
human being trying to succeed.
In June, 1962, I graduated from Marquette University as a
Mechanical Engineer. At Marquette I won an athletic scholarship
and three letter awards for wrestling. In September, 1962, I
began working toward an MBA Degree at Marquette night school.
In June, 1962, I began work as a Production Engineer at the
Delco Electronics Division of General Motors. During my five years
of employment there, I received seven raises and survived seven
layoffs. I liked the company and I believe the company liked me.
INTRODUCTION TO SCIENTOLOGY
In August, 1966, I was introduced to Scientology by my
best friend at work, Leo Barrett. He told me many things about
Scientology that were untrue, but I didn't find out until twelve
years later. At the time he was my best friend and I had no
reason to doubt him.
He told me that L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology,
was a Nuclear Engineer with a Ph. D degree. He said that
Hubbard was a Navy hero during World War II and claimed that
the popular movie, "Mister Roberts" was actually a story about
L. Ron Hubbard's adventures in the U.S. Navy. He also said that
Hubbard was an extensively decorated commander during World War
II. According to Leo, Hubbard was wounded and twice pronounced
dead during World War II, but fully recovered through the use of
Scientology techniques to end up with a perfect score on Navy
mental and physical examinations. Leo also said that Hubbard
had an audience with the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church who
strongly approved of Scientology.
Since Leo made L. Ron Hubbard sound so terrific, I decided
to buy and read two Scientology books, Dianetics- The Modern
Science of Mental Health, and Science of Survival. The preface
to the Dianetics book was written by an MD, Dr. Winter, who
strongly endorsed Scientology. I was really impressed by the
books because they promised better mental and physical health,
increased IQ, quicker reaction time, more ability and success in
life, and better human relations. I was led to believe that
Scientology was a new branch of psychology. I did not know
it was a religion until 1968.
It was from these books that I learned about the state of
"Clear", which was the goal of Scientology. In the books, L. Ron
Hubbard claimed that anyone who reached the state of Clear
through Scientology training and processing would have the follow-
ing qualities: He would be completely free of psychosomatic
illnesses, neuroses, psychoses, repressions, compulsions, and
delusions. He would have increased intelligence and reaction
time. He would know his basic purpose in life and would be
very happy realizing it. A Clear is a completely self-realized
person. This all sounded terrific to me!
In September 1966, Leo Barrett introduced me to Maurice
Lerud, a Scientology Auditor from Chicago, Illinois. Maurice
told me about a new Scientology term, "Suppressive Person".
Scientology claims that a Suppressive Person is a merchant of
chaos and fear like Adolph Hitler. They are so covert that they
influence the subconscious mind of their victims without being
discovered. After Maurice described a Suppressive Person, I was
filled with fear and suspicion.
Later, Leo Barrett and Maurice Lerud convinced me that my
boss at work, Jim Dammen, was really a Suppressive Person. It is
very easy to blame all your troubles and bad feelings on another
person, and it does give you emotional relief even though it may
not be true in reality. Maurice checked this out on the E-Meter,
which is something like a lie detector. Scientology claims that
the E-Meter is almost infallible. The E-Meter check verified that
Jim Dammen was suppressive to me. I couldn't figure this out because
my boss at work had been good to me. However, I did feel better
when they convinced me that he was the cause of my troubles.
In October 1966, I paid for and was processed on Scientology
Grades 0-IV by Maurice Lerud. I felt much better after this
processing until I went back to work. Then my Scientology implanted
fear of Jim Dammen, my boss, made me feel worse.
In December 1966, I quit my job at Delco Electronics and flew
to Washington, D.C. for more training and processing at the
Scientology organization there. My reasons for quitting were: my
fear of Jim Dammen, the fact that Leo Barrett quit and went to
Washington, D.C., and the fact that Leo and Maurice told me I could
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supplement my income and make thousands of dollars a month if
I learned to be a Scientology Auditor. They also said I would
triple my income.
HOMOSEXUAL CLEARS
After a year of expensive training in Scientology, I had
to work for them as an Auditor for about $25.00 per week because
I was no longer able to hold down an engineering job for any
length of time. This was mainly due to the Scientology implanted
fear that my boss was a Suppressive Person.
In November 1968, I went to Detroit, Michigan to work for
the Scientology Organization as an Auditor. While I was looking
for an apartment, Bill Long, one of the chief executives and also
a Clear in Scientology said that I could stay in his quarters
above the Church of Scientology until I found a place of my own.
I trusted and admired Bill Long because he was an executive
and had achieved the state of Clear in Scientology. One night
while I was staying with him, I found out he was a homosexual.
This really shocked and surprised me. He tried to seduce me.
When I refused, he said that everyone was a homosexual in their
past lives. I did not agree. When he tried to attack me, I
pushed him away and went elsewhere for the night.
I reported this to the Scientology Ethics Officer, but
nothing was ever done about it.
Later, in Detroit, another Clear, Alex Soroka, told me that
John McMaster, the world's first Clear who had just made a world-
wide speaking tour for Scientology, turned out to be a homosexual.
He said when L. Ron Hubbard found out about it, he kicked him out
of Scientology for good.
I began to strongly doubt that the state of Clear was
everything that Hubbard said it was. Two of the earliest Clears
turned out to be homosexuals. Hubbard claimed that homosexuals
are severely mentally ill. Hubbard also claims that it is
impossible for a Clear to be mentally ill. This is a real contra-
diction.
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UNKEPT PROMISES
In March 1969, Fred Fairchild, Executive Director of the
Detroit Church of Scientology, made the following promise to
the Auditors there. He said that any Auditor who processed one
person that payed the Church of Scientology on the new Triple
Grade processes would receive the Triple Grades himself as pay-
ment. The value of the Triple Grade process was over $1,000.00.
In April 1969, I processed three paying persons through the
Triple Grades as an Auditor. I did more than my share to keep
my part of the agreement. However, Fred Fairchild never kept his
part of the agreement that he promised. He still owes me over
$1,000 of Scientology processing.
Marge Boling did start to process me on the Triple Grades.
However, under the direction of Fred Fairchild, she stopped my
processing in the middle of a moment of heavy emotional loss.
This was supposed to be against the policy of Scientology. When
I stood up for my rights to the Ethics Officer of Scientology
about this matter, he declared me a Suppressive Person.
EXPULSION FROM SCIENTOLOGY
In November 1973, I was informed by the Ethics Officer that
I was declared a Suppressive Person and he gave me a Writ of
Expulsion which formally kicked me out of the Church of Scientology.
I was also presented with a "Freeloader Bill" for $1,000 for
the training and processing I received when I worked for the Church
of Scientology in Detroit, Michigan. Since I was promised these
services free as payment for my work at the Church of Scientology
in Detroit, Michigan, I did not pay the bill.
The Ethics Officer told me that I must make amends for my
overts (sins) against the Church of Scientology. He demanded a
written confession, I felt this could be used for blackmail purposes.
When I only wrote 20 overts, the Ethics Officer demanded at least
300 overts in my confession. So I went back to my apartment and
wrote 300 overts from my alleged past lives. I was forced to make
up overts like, "blowing up a planet" and "destroying a civilization".
The Ethics Officer accepted this. I believe that this is a form of
mental torture and brainwashing used by Scientology Ethics.
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The Ethics Officer told me that to get back into Scientology
I had to do four more things: (1) Pay the $1,000 "Freeloader Bill",
(2) Complete a retraining program in Scientology at my own expense,
(3) Have the Church parking lot paved at my own expense, and (4)
Have the Church building painted at my own expense. Since I believed
this was extortion (making a threat for money), I did not agree to
do these things.
Then I tried to appeal my case to L. Ron Hubbard. There is a
mail box in every Church of Scientology with a sign that says,
"You can always write to Ron". However, after I dropped my appeal
to Ron in the mailbox, it was returned to me by Scientology with
the statement, "Suppressive Persons cannot write to Ron". This
was a real contradiction. I believe that Scientology is guilty of
mail tampering.
The Scientology policy on Suppressive Persons states that
they are "Fair Game". They may be deprived of property by any
means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientolo-
gist. They may be tricked, sued, or lied to, or destroyed. L. Ron
Hubbard, the source of this policy, must believe he has a right to
kill, steal and lie in the name of Scientology. This made me sick.
I feared for my life and property.
AFTER SCIENTOLOGY
Shortly after I saw the Scientology Ethics Officer for the
last time, I was robbed of about $3,000 of my personal possessions.
I have reason to believe that some of the robbers were Scientologists
in view of the "Fair Game" policy they have.
In May 1974, my boss at work told me that he found out someone
had a contract on my life they had paid $5,000 to have me killed.
At first I thought he was joking, but he repeatedly said he was
not joking. Then I remembered the "Fair Game" policy. I have no
way of proving it, but I really believe that Scientology was behind
this.
In June 1974, I quit my job and had a nervous breakdown. I
went to the hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida for two weeks. In
a way, Scientology nearly destroyed me. Because of Scientology, I
lost my Engineering profession, $3,000 worth of my person property,
the girl that I wanted to marry, at least $200,000 in lost wages,
and finally, my mental health.
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The recovery from my mental illness was a long, slow,
painful process. In October 1979, I began three years of psycho-
therapy with Clinical Psychologist, Charles Geeslin, in Clearwater,
Florida. This really helped because I have now completely recovered.
Presently I am going to the University of South Florida working
toward a Masters Degree in Management and a Professional Mechanical
Engineer's license. I am an "A" student. I am also writing a
book called The Danger of Scientology that will be on the market
next summer.
In January 1980, I tried to file a $2 million lawsuit
against Scientology. However, my lawyer said that although I
had good grounds for a lawsuit, the four-year statute of limita-
tions had run out. I was just not able to put my case together
before than because of my mental illness.
THE TRUTH ABOUT L. RON HUBBARD
Scientologists claim that L. Ron Hubbard was an Engineer
is false. According to the St. Petersburg Times, L. Ron Hubbard
flunked out of Nuclear Engineering at George Washington University
and never received a degree in it.
Scientologists claim that L. Ron Hubbard was a Navy hero
during World War II is false. According to the St. Petersburg
Times, U.S. Navy records show that Hubbard was never wounded or
extensively decorated. He was, however, a Lieutenant in the Navy.
Scientologists claim that Hubbard was twice pronounced dead
and recovered through the use of Scientology principles to the
point where he received perfect scores on mental and physical
tests is false. According to the St. Petersburg Times, shortly
after Hubbard was discharged from the Navy, he wrote to the
Veterans Administration seeking psychiatric help. In divorce
proceedings, he ex-wife claimed that he was a Paranoid Schizo-
phrenic.
I believe that L. Ron Hubbard is a Paranoid Schizophrenic
who sells his delusions of persecution and granduer to over five
million Scientologists around the world. What he says may be
emotionally true, but not true in reality. According to Dr. Winter,
M.D., who wrote the preface to Hubbard's Dianetics book, Scientology
leads to psychosis.
The moral of this story is: Don't waste your time and money on
Scientology unless you are a masochist!
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Family Policy Insights
Free Congress Foundation 721 Second Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002 (202) 546-3004
Vol. I: Number 5
January 29, 1982
TAX-EXEMPTION FOR PRIVATE SCHOOLS
I. HISTORY
In 1970, the Internal Revenue Service instituted a policy of denying tax-exempt
status to schools which practice racial discrimination. Presently there are over
100 schools which are denied tax exemption because of racial discrimination. The
IRS policy was upheld in 1981 by a federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia in
the case of Bob Jones University and Goldsborough Christian Schools, Inc. The IRS
based its policy on a particular understanding of the "congressional purpose" of the
federal tax exemptions. That purpose, the IRS held, is to aid or reward non-profit
institutions which further some "fundamental national policy" or public good.
On January 8, 1982, the Department of the Treasury announced that it would no
longer deny tax exemption to schools which practice racial discrimination, because,
in fact, the Treasury and the IRS do not have the authority to deny tax-exemptions
on that basis. Deputy Treasury Secretary R.T. McNamar, stated that "before the
government gets into the business of deciding which organizations are worthy of tax
exemptions and which are not, we want Congress to fully consider the implications of
such a course." McNamar explained, "Whether or not the Treasury Department
agrees
with the position of the IRS in particular cases is not the issue. The question is
whether the IRS is required to decide whether private organizations conform with
fundamental national policies."
On the same day, the Justice Department asked that the Supreme Court throw out
the lower court ruling against Bob Jones University and Goldsborough Christian Schools
and regard as moot their present case before the high court. Only months before, the
Justice Department had looked forward to the Supreme Court decision as the "definitive
decision" which would "dispel uncertainty" about the authority of the IRS. On January
8th, Department officials said that they had reread the congressional debates on the
tax law and had found "nothing in the legislative history to permit denial of tax
exemptions because of racial discrimination."
Four days later, on January 12th, the White House announced that President Reagan
would submit to Congress proposed legislation which would, "for the first time, give
the Secretary of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service express authority to
deny tax-exempt status to private, non-profit educational organizations with racially
discriminatory policies." In a January 18th letter to the President of the Senate and
the Speaker of the House, President Reagan stated that the recent action of the Treasury
Note: Nothing written here is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Free
Congress Foundation or as an attempt to aid or hinder the passage of any bill before Congress.
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Department "reflects my own belief that agencies such as the IRS should not be
permitted, even with the best of intentions and to further goals I strongly endorse,
to govern by administrative fiat by exercising powers that the Constitution assigns
to the Congress."
Section I of the President's bill would amend section 501 of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1954, to deny tax-exemptions to organizations maintaining schools with
racially discriminatory policies:
"(1) IN GENERAL. -- An organization that normally maintains a
regular faculty and curriculum (other than an exclusively
religious curriculum) and normally has a regularly enrolled
body of students in attendence at the place where its edu-
cational activities are regularly carried on shall not be
deemed to be described in subsection (c)(3), and shall not
be exempt from tax under subsection (a), if such organization
has a racially discriminatory policy.
"(2) DEFINITIONS. -- For the purposes of this subsection --
"(i) An organization has a 'racially discriminatory
policy' if it refuses to admit students of all
races to the rights, privileges, programs, and
activities generally accorded or made available
to students by that organization, or if the
organization refuses to administer its educational
policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan
programs, athletic programs, or other programs ad-
ministered by such organization in a manner that
does not discriminate on the basis of race. The
term 'racially discriminatory policy' does not
include an admissions policy of a school, or a
program of religious training or worship of a
school, that is limited, or grants preferences
or priorities, to members of a particular religious
organization or belief, provided, that no such policy,
program, preference, or priority is based upon race
or upon a belief that requires discrimination on the
basis of race.
"(ii) The term 'race' shall include color or national
origin."
II. OPPOSITION TO POLICY CHANGE
The Treasury Department decision was seen by many as a direct assault on the
Civil Rights movement, reflecting, as was stated by Norman Chachkin of Lawvers
Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the "true beliefs" of the Reagan Administration.
Several civil rights organizations argued that the government is required by the
Constitution to deny exemptions to discriminatory organizations. To allow tax
exemptions for such organizations, they say, would be a clear case of subsidizing
racial discrimination with taxpayers money.
The Justice Department brief to the Supreme Court in the Bob Jones University
case defended the IRS policy, explaining that the policy, "derives from the
federal government's commitment to the eradication of racial discrimination mani-
fested both in the Constitution and in many federal statutes and the national policy
prohibiting public subsidy of racially discriminatory educational institutions,
whether public or private."
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Rep. James R. Jones, Chairman of the House Budget Committee called the Treasury
Department decision "terrible," explaining that "it sets back this country many
years; it reverses the policies of Democratic and Republican Presidents alike.
If the law isn't there already, then Congress should step in and reassert that
the nation's commitment to nondiscrimination is there."
III. CONSERVATIVE'S ARGUMENTS
The IRS policy implemented in 1970 was based on three assumptions: 1) tax-
exemptions are a kind of government subsidy, 2) tax-exemptions are granted in
order to aid organizations which further "fundamental national policy" or the
public good, 3) an agency of the federal government other than Congress has
the authority to decide what is national policy and which organizations are
acting in opposition to national policy.
The President, the Treasury and the Department of Justice have denied the
third assumption, but have said nothing to refute the first two. On the contrary,
legislation such as that offered by the President is thought by many to imply
agreement with the IRS on its first two principles, and it is about the principles,
not about the general purpose of the President's bill, that many conservatives
have grave reservations.
To say that tax exemptions are a kind of government subsidy is to speak as if
all earnings belong first to the government and second to the one who earns, as
if government supports the people rather than people support the government. Do
we consider all tax breaks in this light? If a man lists deductions for his de-
pendents, and therefore pays less tax than another, do we say that this man is
subsidized by the government? If one man earns less than another and therefore
pays less tax, is he being supported by the government? Or is it rather the case
that he supports the government, but to a degree which Congress has judged is
proportionate to his circumstances?
Second, to say that the purpose of tax exemption to non-profit religious edu-
cational, scientific and charitable organizations is to reward or aid non-profit
institutions that are furthering public policy would seem to bring us into trouble
with the First Amendment. Religious organizations are named separately from
educational or charitable organizations, and therefore it seems that the Congress
intended to exempt religious organizations as religious, not simply as educational
or charitable. Indeed, application of the tax laws seems to confirm this, yet
Congress does not, in fact, make judgments about whether a religion is furthering
the public good, nor do we believe that it is competent to do SO.
Conservatives argue that tax-exemptions are not rewards to organizations which
further national policy nor are tax benefits subsidies from the federal government.
Rather, as the purpose of taxation is to support the government from those activities
which "make money," tax-exemptions are a recognition of those activities which,
by their nature, are not intended to yield profit. One is (or ought to be) taxed
from his profit, not from the very means necessary to sustain existence. Yet non-
profit organizations, by definition, do not have this "extra" which can be taken
from them. (There are laws to insure that they don't.) Indeed, far from making
a profit, most non-profit organizations cannot break even, but for the donations of
others who, at least with respect to their gift, are also engaged in a non-profit
activity. For this reason, gifts to non-profit organizations are tax deductible.
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These are the general reasons why conservatives would oppose President Reagan's
bill, or any bill like it, which would deny tax exemption to a school whose policies
run contrary to national policy. Such legislation seems to be based on principles
which are not only false, but carry the potential to do great harm. Conservatives
do not want tax-exemptions and other tax benefits to be viewed as subsidies. Nor
do they want the government to make judgments as to which religious, educational
and charitable organizations further national policy. Yet, if legislation to deny
tax-exempt status to racially discriminatory schools is not grounded upon these
two principles, upon what is it grounded?
IV. PARTICULAR OBJECTIONS TO THE ADMINISTRATION PROPOSAL
Beyond the general objections, there are several aspects of the President's
proposed legislation which private school supporters believe to be particularly
dangerous. First, and most important, is that this legislation is silent on the
question of "burden of proof." Regulations proposed by the IRS in 1978 would
require schools to prove by clear and convincing evidence that they are not guilty
of racial discrimination. With this new legislation behind them, the IRS is certain
to argue that it cannot, for both practical and legal reasons, be expected to carry
the burden of proof. Further, entitlement to tax benefits has traditionally been
left to the taxpayer. Yet, private school supporters counter that, though the
final burden of persuasion rests on the taxpayer, the initial burden of production
must be on the government to show a prima-facie (apparent) case of misconduct.
Secondly, on a practical level, it would be gravely unjust to expect a non-profit
organization to produce the thousands of dollars necessary to carry on a law suit
in order to prove that they do not discriminate. A small school which does not,
in fact, discriminate could be easily and legally ruined in a very short time.
Also unclear in the proposed legislation is whether the practice of racial dis-
crimination will be determined by judging the intent of the particular school or
by judging the effect, that is, the actual racial composition of the student body.
Use of the "effects test" which is easier for the IRS, will, practically speaking,
entail not only the lack of racial discrimination but for many schools, it will
require affirmative action, a requirement which is not intended by the bill.
A third problem with the proposed legislation concerns the liability of the
churches which operate schools. Though the White House has stated that the
legislation would affect only schools, and not the churches themselves, the bill
itself refers not to schools, but to the organizations which operate schools.
Therefore, a church might, in fact, lose its tax exemption because of a violation
by the school. Further, the bill prohibits discrimination in "other programs
administered by such organization, without specifying that the prohibition is
limited to school functions. Therefore a church which operates a non-discriminatory
school could lose its own exemption by limiting its membership to a single race.
Section 4 of the bill states that, "The amendments made by this Act shall apply
after July 9, 1970. This ex post facto application of the proposed legislation
is considered by many to be unconstitutional At the very least, they argue, it
is unfair to require 12 years of back taxes from schools which have acted on the
good faith belief that they were protected by the First Amendment.
Finally, the definition of discrimination is not limited to admission procedures,
but requires that all programs be administered "in a manner which does not dis-
criminate on the basis of race." Such a provision leaves private schools open to
excesses which have characterized the federal bureaucracy in the past. It is
viewed by church-related schools as fostering the kind entanglement between govern-
ment and religion which is prohibited by the First Amendment.
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V. CRITICISMS BY WILLIAM BENTLY BALL
In a January 27 letter to Edwin Meese, William Bentley Ball, the Pennsylvania
lawyer who has won renown for successfully defending private schools from ex-
cessive government intervention, made further criticism of the proposed legislation.
His criticisms were accompanied by the text of a bill which he believes will
protect religious as well as racial civil rights. The text of Mr. Ball's criticisms
follows:
ADMINISTRATION DRAFT BILL OF JANUARY 18, 1982
(j) (1) IN GENERAL. Confusion will be created by the limitation,
"other than an exclusively religious curriculum." A number of important
recent decisions hold that fundamentalists and Catholic schools are exclu-
sively religious and that nothing in them can actually be described as
secular. See, e.g., Lemon V. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971); McCormick
V. Hirsch, 460 F. Supp. 1337 Pa. 1978); Catholic Bishop of Chicago
V. NLRB, 559 F. 2d 1112 (7th Cir. 1977), aff'd 440 U.S. 490 (1979); State
of Ohio V. Whisner, 351 N.E. 2d 750 (1976). Fundamentalist Christians
consistently testify that their curriculum (even in subjects such as
mathematics) is taught from religious perspective and is religious in
purpose. The trial records in these cases show this well. I believe
that your draftsman did not intend this to create an exemption for
religious schools, but that point is sure to result in litigation if
left unattended to.
(j) (2) DEFINITIONS
"(i) An organization has a 'racially
discriminatory policy' if it refuses to
admit students of all races to the rights,
privileges, programs, and activities gen-
erally accorded or made available to
students by that organization.
Here, again, a serious loophole has been left. Under
that wording, an organization does not have a "racially dis-
criminatory policy" if it refuses to admit to enrollment a
child on account of that child's race. The only bar in the
above quoted language is to the exclusion of "students"
(people already enrolled).
Beyond this, instead of referring to the usual (and
useful) phrasing in civil rights legislation, "on account of
race," the above language employs a novel "all races" phrasing.
It is conceivable that a school could exclude a child of a particular race from
some activity but not on account of that child's race. Suppose that a school,
for health reasons, forbade the participation of all newly arrived Vietnamese children
in a vaccination program; or that a Catholic school, for religious reasons, forbade
Protestant black students to receive Communion; taken literally (and "literally"
is the name of the game in much litigation today) the draft language would label
either such school as having a "racially discriminatory policy.
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Further: the draft language's term, "refuses," lands us in a quagmire. "Refuses"
how often? Once? Frequently? Suppose a school of one of those many so-called
"national" parishes (Catholic), so familiar in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles,
etc., is an Italian national parish and always refuses to permit children of Slovak
(or other non-Italian descent) permission to join in a Columbus Day pageant? I was
harshly critical of the 1978-1979 IRS Proposed Revenue Procedures for their use of
such very loose terms as "refuses". When you combine that with the myriad individual
"rights, privileges, programs, and activities", you have a statue which is unmanageable
except through an all-embracing program of governmental surveillance. In a moment I
will comment upon the constitutionally unique situation which such surveillance pro-
duces in the case of religious schools.
In fine, this first part of the bill, relating to admissions to programs,
activities, etc., does not aid the black child who wants to get admitted, and is
totally harmful to the religious school.
II
or if the organization refuses to
administer its educational policies,
admissions policies, scholarships and
loan program, athletic programs, or
other programs administered by such
organization in a manner that does not
discriminate on the basis of race."
This language is subject to the same major objection which is raised by the
above part of the definition section insofar as it employs the vague term,
"refuses." But in addition, this part of the definition embraces the extremely
broad terms, "administer," "manner" and "discriminate." Who is to judge, and
how will it be judged, whether a school shall be denied tax-exempt status under
that language? We are again faced with the whole problem of myriad acts and
omissions which someone may allege to be a discrimination in manner of admin-
istration.
Those religious schools which would become subject to IRS oversight by virtue
of these requirements occupy a unique position constitutionally. They are, in
the words of the First Amendment, an "exercise of religion," and have been so
recognized on numerous occasions by the Supreme Court. See, e.g., Lemon V.
Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602, 616 (1971) (the schools are "an integral part of the
religious mission" of their sponsoring churches); Meek V. Pittenger, 421 U.S.
349, 366 (1975) (their religious mission is "the only reason for the schools'
existence"); and NLRB V. Catholic Bishop of Chicago, 440 U.S. 490, 503 (1979)
(wherein the Court pointed to "the admitted and obvious fact that the raison d'etre"
of the schools is "the propagation of religious faith"). These religious organisms
are not remotely analogous, for constitutional purposes, to any secular entity,
whether that entity be business, industrial, educational or philanthropic.
This special constitutional status brings with it heightened protection for
the schools from government direction, control or supervision, whether such
direction is intended or not. As the Supreme Court has recognized, even a "regula-
tion neutral on its face may, in its application, nonetheless offend the constitu-
tional requirement" for governmental respect for the free exercise of religion.
Wisconsin V. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205, 220 (1972). No basis may be found in the First
Amendment or in the holdings of the Supreme Court for the mistaken notion that
the Religion Clauses protect religious "belief" but not religious "action." To
begin with, the Clauses protect the "free exercise of religion," not the freedom
merely to believe (it is on the basis of the belief/action dichotomy that the
Soviet Union lays claim to being protective of religious freedom.) Further, the
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courts have always extended protection to actions of religious significance: the
refusal to attend school beyond the 8th grade, Yoder, supra; the defrocking of a
bishop, Serbian Orthodox Diocese V. Milivojevich, 426 U.S. 696 (1979); the main-
taining of schools, Catholic Bishop of Chicago V. NLRB, 559 F. 2d 1112 (7th Cir. 1977).
Not only would free exercise violations necessarily attend IRS intervention
into these church ministries, the very existence of the potentially entangling
(and therefore illicit) relationship between church and state which the bill would
create would violate express Supreme Court rulings. The Court has held that church-
state separation must be certain, and that the introduction of any "element of
governmental evaluation and standards," such as a "social welfare yardstick", into
the government's relationship with a church or religious entity constitutes forbidden
"excessive entanglement" between the two. Walz V. Tax Commission, 397 U.S. 664,
674 (1970). The Court has made plain its view that, in order to be violative of
the "entanglement" prohibition, a government requirement need not even produce
burdensome results:
"It is not only the conclusions that
may be reached.
which may impinge on rights
guaranteed by the Religion Clauses, but the very
process of inquiry leading to findings and con-
clusions." NLRB V. Catholic Bishop, supra, at 502
(emphasis supplied).
Your bill, while laudably attempting to protect most religious schools, regret-
tably falls short of the mark. The regulatory scheme which the bill would authorize
is far too invasive of areas of purely religious concern, and sweeps far too broadly
to overcome either the Court's prohibition as to excessive entanglements, or its
similar prohibition on legislative restrictions which are not drawn with "narrow
specificity." Keyishian V. Board of Regents, 385 U.S. 589, 604 (1967).
It is not sufficient that the Congress, instead of IRS, be the party imposing
the regulatory scheme. All along, we have complained of two things: (1) that
Congress did not authorize IRS to impose its nondiscrimination regulations; and
(2) that the very requirements which IRS has imposed are wrong. These requirements
are not made right by simply transferring those loosely worded provisions into
statute. The right statute is needed, or the schools will suffer.
June
1982
The Foundation
Newsletter of the Foundation of Universal Unity
Vol. 1 No. 2
New Home for Headquarters
Sunrise Ranch provides expansive facilities
George Emery has often mentioned that
Bahan, individuals living at opposite ends of
if he were to write a book about his life he
the continent and long distances from our
would entitle it "When I Needed Them the
headquarters. As part of this overall change
Most," in honor of the many significant indi-
Michael and Bill have asked to be repre-
viduals who assisted him in his growth. This
sented on the board by Alan Hammond and
statement of appreciation is now also appli-
Mack Fontenot, both residents of Sunrise
cable to the Foundation in its present stage
Ranch. Mack will function as Treasurer of
of unfoldment. As our body has moved
the Foundation board, utilizing his profes-
through its fledgling growth and come to rec-
sional financial expertise, and Alan will be
ognize the practical and necessary require-
functioning as President of the board. (An
ments for its right function, a clearer picture
article introducing Alan appears later in this
of what is presently needed has emerged.
issue.) While Michael and Bill will no longer
And where our needs were the greatest the
serve as directors of the Foundation, their
provision appeared!
support and interest in its activities remain
and will find outlet through membership on
Mack Fontenot with "Fred," the Sunrise Ranch
the International Board of Advisors. Alan
computer
will of course be close at hand for consulta-
tion and is already bringing much to the
half our original loan covering the Emerys'
Foundation from his wealth of experience.
Pacific Rim tour, it became obvious that a
The overall effect of this delightful un-
more practical approach to handling our
foldment is a more efficient, contained and
affairs was possible.
organized vehicle of coordination for the
This possibility took form in an offer to
Foundation. After years of world traveling
move our central office to Sunrise Ranch,
George and Joelle finally have a settled, sta-
which has improved in very practical ways
ble home base. And now so does the Foun-
our ability to function. Office space and secre-
dation headquarters. The Emerys' new home
tarial assistance is being provided to the
phone number is (303) 667-9111. Rick
Foundation, increasing economy. Rick and
Lathrop can be reached at the office through
Alan Hammond (standing) with Rick Lathrop at the
new Foundation office
Linda Lathrop were also invited to live on the
(303) 667-0599. We look forward to sharing
Ranch. Since Rick is the Foundation's Ad-
in the ongoing effects of this movement for-
Recognizing the great interest from peo-
ministrator, this move has enhanced our
ward.
ple around the world in the experience of
operating efficiency. With the Emerys resid-
unity and in the tone being sounded by the
ing at Sunrise their meetings with Rick re-
Foundation, we have placed a priority on
quire traveling only 20 yards rather than 20
reaching those interested to let them know of
miles!
our presence. We have done this by sponsor-
Beyond these expense-reducing benefits,
ing speaking tours by the Emerys, by estab-
our previously dreamed-of access to a com-
lishing and supporting councils around the
puter is now at hand. We are able to com-
world and by maintaining a central office fa-
puterize our mailing procedure and our
cility to handle the administration of these ac-
accounting with the help of the Sunrise ac-
tivities. This has required funds for travel ex-
counting department. To complement this
penses, for printing and postage, and for sal-
ideal situation we have full use of a complete
aries to cover staff living expenses. While up
graphics department and print shop.
to this point we have been able to handle
Up to now our Foundation Board of
these ongoing expenses and reduce by one
Directors included Michael Cecil and Bill
George and Joelle in their new home
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
HUC Updates
Planetary Initiative
The
for the World We Choose
IX
Whole Health
Institute
Ninth International
A connection has developed between the Whole
Health Institute and the Foundation's Visionary-
Human Unity Conference
Action Council on Health. This has resulted in the
Council's adoption of Healing Currents, published
We have recently received a large supply
by the Whole Health Institute, as the Council's
of promotional literature for the Conference
official newsletter.
News of the diverse and expanding activ-
including invitations, programs, registration
ities of the Planetary Initiative is coming to us
cards and posters. All are available from our
The Whole Health Institute is not just
through reports from local councils and from
office. The four-day conference program will
another new facility but rather spearheads a
issue #2 of The Initiator, the Planetary Initia-
feature panel discussion led by presidents of
new direction, a new attitude, and reflects a
tive newsletter. A number of councils have
new consciousness of what constitutes health
the present and previous Conferences, relat-
found in the vehicle of the Planetary Initia-
and wholeness. The Institute was born
ing to the theme "The Human Being of the
tive an excellent means to assist others in
New Era." The subjects for these discussions
through an evolving process that began many
personal and planetary transformation, and
and the discussion leaders are as follows: In-
years ago. The work of a few dedicated men
several are now assisting in the training of
tra-uterine Life and Birth-Yogi Bhajan; Ed-
and women over the years has resulted in a
discussion leaders for Issues Exploration
ucation and Intellectual Development-
worldwide network of health professionals
Groups.
Domingo Dias Porta; Nutrition, Health and
including medical doctors, psychiatrists,
George and Joelle Emery are now mem-
Family-Reinhart Ruge; Professional and In-
chiropractors, dentists, nurses, therapists,
bers of the Coordinating Council of the
dividual Development-Dr. José Manuel
nutritionists and others in related fields rang-
Planetary Initiative along with Bill Bahan.
Estrada; Development in Collectivity-A
ing from exercise to stress management.
Work has begun on a film for Planetary Ini-
Montero de Campion; Personal Philosophy
The Institute is a facility where the para-
tiative based on Donald Keys' new book,
and Spiritual Experience-George and Joelle
mount concern is to offer orientation and
Earth at Omega. Donald recently met with
Emery; and Self-Realization and Universal
new direction to health and wholeness.
nearly forty high-level, change-oriented busi-
Integration-Telesforo and Ligia de Linares.
Rather than an exclusive system it is in-
ness executives in New York City to invite
In preparation for the Conference local
clusive of all forms of healing.
them to explore avenues of participation in
discussion group nuclei are being formed to
The faculty of the Whole Health Institute
the global project.
search "for new values that permit the for-
offers week-long seminars in the art of heal-
The Planetary Initiative Organizing Man-
mation of the human being of the new era."
ing. The Institute is located at Lake Rest
ual ($2.50), copies of issues 1, 2 and 3 (when
Papers outlining the results of these consid-
Hotel in Livingston Manor, N.Y. Set in the
available) of The Initiator ($.25 each), the
erations are being called for by the Con-
Catskill Mountains, it is about a two-and-a-
basic flyer ($.05), and the Discussion
half-hour drive from Manhattan. Whole
ference Central Committee for possible pub-
Leader's Guide for Issues Exploration
Health Institute seminars are held world-
lishing. For individuals or councils interested
Groups ($3.00 each) are now available.
in supporting the Conference in this way,
wide. For information about the Institute
These all may be ordered from Planetary Ini-
further information is available from our of-
contact: Dr. Elaine Gagné
tiative, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York
fice.
Whole Health Institute
NY 10017, U.S.A., phone (212) 490-2766.
P.O. Box 357
Please include 25% of costs for postage. Dis-
Tenth International
Livingston Manor NY 12758
counts are available on quantity orders.
Human Unity Conference
The coordinating committee for the 10th
HUC continues to meet in England bringing
forth exciting possibilities for the 1983 event.
International
UNIVERSITIONAL HEALTH TOWNTOWN
A number of themes for the Conference are
being considered, including "Agreement in
Action" and "A Transcendent Nation." The
Health Foundation
possibility of an evening event in central
London the last day of the Conference,
Saturday, July 30, is under consideration in
On March 26, 45 people from around the
a movement session. We considered fund-
order to share the experience at Warwick
U.S. and Canada gathered at Rainbow Farm
raising ideas, effective use of media and a
University with many others.
in Indiana for a three-day Steering Commit-
promotional brochure. We also explored our
Present fund-raising ideas emerging from
tee meeting of the International Health
vital interrelationships with the Planetary Ini-
the committee include a celebrity quotes
Foundation. Joining directors Ken and
tiative, the Whole Health Institute and the
booklet on the subject of human unity, local
Sherry Carey were many friends old and new.
Foundation.
fund-raising dinners and marketing globes,
A variety of health professionals attended:
It was a creative, enjoyable time to look
kites, Frisbees, pencils, T-shirts and seed
doctors, dentists, nurses and many who are
at many aspects of the project and develop a
packets. The response to and interest in the
not directly involved in the healing arts but
clear perspective of the varied ways we can
Conference in England and Europe is high,
know they have healing to offer their worlds.
offer healing and support to our worlds and
The weekend's activities included update
world leaders.
Continued, last page
reports, open forums, discussion groups and
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
Local Foundation Councils
Council Locations
Council News
Around the World
United States
United States
Atlanta, Ga.-The second Foundation
Edmonton, Alta.-Handling Financial
Arizona: Phoenix, Tucson; California: Los Al-
gathering here with 48 attending was hosted
Pressure in the New Age" was the title of a
tos, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, San-
by 3HO at their ashram. The group partici-
workshop by Jim Miller sponsored by the
ta Cruz; Colorado: Boulder, Colorado Springs,
pated in volleyball, Sufi dancing, dinner and
local council. Topics included breaking cur-
Denver, Durango, Ft. Collins, Glenwood
Springs, Loveland; Florida: Bonita Springs, Ft.
music by 3HO and Sufi groups before the for-
rent levels of restriction, symbolism of
Meyers, Miami, Orlando, Pensacola; Georgia:
mal meeting led by council coordinator
money, retiring from "the trap," and the
Atlanta; Illinois: Chicago, Springfield; Indiana:
Laurence Laynes. Attending the event were
economic value of your life energy. Jim
Muncie; Kansas: Wichita; Maryland: Washing-
individuals representing a wide variety of
passed around a $1,000 bill, effectively dem-
ton, D.C., area; Massachusetts: Hampden;
spiritual groups as well as awakening ones
onstrating people's emotional involvement
Missouri: Mountain View, St. Louis; New
unaligned with any particular organization.
with money. Personal budget forms, ques-
Hampshire: Epping; New Jersey: Madison; New
York: Garden City, Manhattan; Oregon: Ash-
There is a growing sense of friendship and
tionnaires and a seven-step monthly program
land, Eugene, Grants Pass, Portland; Pennsyl-
closeness among the developing core of peo-
were shared with the audience and an invita-
vania: Philadelphia area; Texas: Austin, Dallas,
ple and a sense of personal responsibility for
tion extended to reconvene in a month to re-
Houston, San Antonio; Utah: Salt Lake City;
the Foundation council.
view progress.
Virginia: Charlottesville; Washington: Belling-
Kelowna, B.C.-Coordinator David Barnes
ham, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Yakima; Wis-
Houston, Texas-Peter and Carolyn Rhodes
consin: Madison, Milwaukee.
with the Houston Council hosted a Texas
reports on a very successful time with Kathi
area gathering at the Peaceable Kingdom fa-
and Milenko Matanovic during their recent
Canada
cilities 75 miles northwest of Houston. This
concert-lecture tour of British Columbia.
Alberta: Calgary, Edmonton; British Columbia:
event provided a close-in time of friendship
About 100 people attended the concert and
Aldergrove, Kamloops, Kelowna, 100 Mile
House, Prince George, Quesnell, Vancouver,
together for core council members from
50 were present the following evening for
Victoria; Ontario: Barrie, Wardsville, Windsor;
Houston, Austin and San Antonio to share
Milenko's lecture on planetary transforma-
Quebec: Montreal.
their experiences and vision of Texas Foun-
tion. David has been traveling to smaller
dation activities. Thanks to some rainy
communities near Kelowna sharing vid-
Other Countries
weather the staff of the facility had time to
eotapes of Marilyn Ferguson and the 1981
Australia: Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne,
join in the gathering, which was a delight to
HUC with individuals interested in personal
Perth, Sydney; Brazil: Rio de Janeiro; Chile:
Santiago; England: Cumbria, London, Oxford;
all. Another meeting at Peaceable Kingdom
and social transformation. After nine months
Germany: Stuttgart; Hong Kong; Japan:
is being planned.
of operation a coordinating council of seven
Nagoya, Tokyo; Korea: Seoul; Mexico: Mexico
Seattle, Wash.-The local council has joined
has organically emerged to enlarge the scope
City; New Zealand: Auckland; Nigeria: Lagos;
with a number of other interested organiza-
of Foundation activities.
Norway: Oslo; Singapore; South Africa: Cape
Town, Durban, Johannesburg; Zimbabwe:
tions to support the Planetary Festival in
Salisbury.
Seattle on June 27. Music and food of five
continents will be featured along with consid-
Regional
Addresses and phone numbers of the above
Councils, as well as state and regional coordina-
erations of the issues of employment, en-
Council Spotlight:
tors, are available from our office.
vironment, energy and human growth. This
celebration of the richness and power of the
Southwest U.S.A.
Puget Sound area will conclude with a Plane-
tary Powwow. This event follows the visit of
David Reis, Foundation Regional Coor-
tive Council and the Holiday Project, an est-
Donald Keys earlier in the year and the dec-
dinator for the Southwest, draws on his expe-
sponsored event. Phoenix and Tucson are
laration of Seattle as a "Planetary City" by
rience as a Los Angeles Human Unity Coun-
sponsoring morning breakfasts, evening pot-
Mayor Charles Royer.
cil Coordinator and participant in the 1981
luck dinners, Health Council meetings, open
Human Unity Conference. David's resumé
houses, community days and public gather-
Canada
resembles that of a five-man entourage. He
ings.
Vancouver, B.C.-On May 1 Vancouverites
has been a nutritional consultant, initiated
The Los Angeles area is promoting an
were treated to a forum entitled "Planetary
active youth groups in the L.A. area and par-
"I'd Rather Be Where I Am" T-shirt that is
Peace-A Shared Vision" sponsored by the
ticipated in an enlightened business forum in
fast catching on as a fund raiser. Monday
Foundation. Speakers representing Planetary
L.A. He has also supported the Emissary
night meetings build friendship among par-
Initiative, Emissary Society, Hunger Project,
intentional community at Glen Ivy near Cor-
ticipants. Recently, council members were
International Health Foundation, Vancouver
ona for the last several years. This year has
volunteer staff and presenters at the Body,
Council of Churches and other organizations
found him actively working to initiate and
Mind, Spirit Festival-conscious of the fact
participated. In preparing for this event an
support Foundation councils in his area
that the Foundation is not to be served but to
outstanding aspect of the speakers' experi-
besides overseeing the local council in Los
serve people and organizations.
ence was the willingness they shared to move
Angeles.
San Francisco has been a whirlwind of ac-
together as one body. During the forum a
To encompass his regional area, David's
tivity. David Ish, the local coordinator and a
lively, smooth interchange occurred and the
travels have taken him to San Diego, Santa
member of the Planetary Initiative Steering
audience was thrilled with this example of
Barbara and San Francisco, Calif., Phoenix
Committee, sponsored an event for the Ini-
shared vision in action. Another public
and Tucson, Ariz., where councils are in ac-
tiative earlier this year. The council is also ac-
offering sponsored by the Council is a series
tion. With his assistance, keen interest and
tive in the International Health Project. Be-
of talks by educator Dr. John Waskom en-
expertise these councils are flourishing. San
cause of enthusiastic participation in all these
titled "Actualizing Inherent Genius." Dr.
Diego has developed a solid core of people
events plus their weekly Circle of Friends
Waskom will also be lecturing in Abbotsford,
with genuine interest. Among other things,
meetings, Foundation activity is spreading
B.C., and Seattle, Wash., while in the area.
they have worked with the Planetary Initia-
into the Palo Alto and San Jose area.
From the Emerys
Foundation Sponsors
Founding Directors
Lims' Speaking Tour
Alan Hammond
We have found that, when moving in the
This column spotlights individuals, orga-
Alan Hammond was born and educated
current of life, the only constant thing is
nizations, lectures and tours actively associating
in England. After university he played soccer
change! As we first conceived the Founda-
with and carrying the tone of the Foundation.
for Bristol City, a professional club. As an ed-
tion, we saw great potential in it for creative
ucator Alan taught in England, Canada and
service and vowed to let it unfold naturally
Ken and Veronica Lim, coordinators of a
the U.S., counseled in Canadian penitentia-
without preconceived notions of what it
number of intentional communities and
ries and has been involved in educational
should be. The changes which are described
groups in the southeastern U.S., are now on
psychology work for over ten years. He has
in this newsletter are indication of the con-
tour offering talks on "A New Look at Inten-
provided a focus for innumerable symposia
tinuing unfoldment of the cycles of maturing
tional Communities." Between April 3 and
throughout the world on education, psychol-
of the Foundation, allowing a strengthening
June 5 they will be traveling and speaking in
ogy, philosophy and holistic studies, and has
of the substance we sensed when its forma-
Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and
co-authored the book Spirit of Sunrise. Alan
tion began. We are particularly thankful for
Massachusetts. The spirit of their offering is
is now in continuous demand as a lecturer in
the opportunity of working with Alan Ham-
represented by this statement appearing on
North America, Europe and southern Africa
mond after years of real affinity with him. We
their tour flyer: "A true intentional com-
and has frequently appeared on radio and
know that you share with us our deep joy at
munity is made up of people who are not try-
TV.
this time of consolidation and resulting ex-
ing to escape or retreat from life by doing
With his wife Jean, Alan has lived on
pansion of our collective scope.
something on their own, but of people inter-
Sunrise Ranch for the past ten years where
We are in the process of forming an In-
ested in an invigorating approach to life, an
he is primarily responsible for education and
ternational Board of Advisors consisting of
approach that prepares each person to
outreach programs. We are proud to wel-
various ones who have shown an interest in
advance and offer creative energy into his
come him as the new president of the Foun-
serving in this capacity. Individuals involved
community and beyond." Topics considered
dation's Board of Directors.
in transformative action who are supportive
during their talks include: concern for the
of the Foundation include Marilyn Ferguson,
whole person, communities with a spiritual
Jerry Jampolsky, Brooke Newell, Michael
base, creative and performing arts, relation-
What is the Foundation
Cecil, Harold Vogt, Bill Bahan and Peter
ships, and the worth of work.
of Universal Unity?
Caddy. Our love and gratitude to you all for
In addition to the Lims the Foundation
your continuing support and interest in the
now has access to other highly qualified
In this column we invite your thoughts and
Foundation.
speakers in a wide range of areas including
perceptions relative to the Foundation's princi-
Here is our upcoming itinerary:
those presently represented by Visionary-
ples and present purpose.
Action Councils. If there is interest in your
The Foundation of Universal Unity is
June 1
Washington, D.C.
vicinity to share in the tone of the Founda-
June 2-4
New York City.
tion in a specific subject area, write the
primarily an attitude, an attitude born from
June 5-
New England area. (June 18-21:
Speakers' Bureau at our central office with
an awareness that all human beings are con-
July 16
Philadelphia-Great Seal cele-
nected with each other, with life, and with
your request for a speaker.
bration.)
the source and sustaining power of all cre-
July 17-19
Washington, D.C. (Conferences:
ation. This attitude manifests as the Founda-
World Future Society, Society for
tion. It serves as the unifying principle by
Int'l. Development, Assoc. for
which people who genuinely embrace this at-
Humanistic Psychology.
July 20-
Sunrise Ranch.
titude can meet in an atmosphere of true
Aug. 9
Our New Address
friendship and true connectedness to dis-
Aug. 10-
South America (HUC), Africa.
cover together what magic can be woven into
November
the tapestries of their own lives and of those
The Foundation
around them. In light of the intensity of the
of Universal Unity
current times and the increasing need for bal-
ance and maturity, the Foundation is a sacred
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uals are encouraged to consider this
Foundation is one of many tools on earth to-
with respect to fund-raising activities.
day for making our dreams come true.
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Audio- and Videotapes
Tenth HUC (Cont.)
Talks by speakers at the 1981 Human
Subscriptions and Publications
Unity Conference, including Marilyn Fer-
and the event itself promises to bring the re-
Our present plans call for publication of
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ality of the experience of human unity to
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The Foundation through the local coun-
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cils intends to financially support the coor-
You may wish to photocopy your
tion to the Foundation tape library is Alan
dinating committee as well as offer direct as-
newsletter and share it with friends, and en-
Hammond's address to the Secondary
sistance with George and Joelle's planned
courage them to subscribe. For subscrip-
Teachers' Association of Vancouver, which
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tions: send $10 to The Foundation Newslet-
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ters.
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80537.
D.C. Press Corps
Mostly Irreligious
By REV. LESTER KINSOLVING
Public Opinion magazine has published a revealing survey of 240
"media elite" in Washington. The survey conducted by S. Robert
Lichter and Stanley Rothman included reporters, editors, colum-
nists, bureau chiefs, news executives, anchormen and film editors.
The results should be of interest to the majority of U.S. citizens who
belong to churches or synagogues. For among the results of this
survey of the people who are central in reporting and commenting to
the American public on the activities of Congress and the president
are these:
92 percent do not regularly attend church or synagogue.
91 percent believe there is nothing morally wrong with
homosexuality.
54 percent see nothing wrong with adultery.
50 percent replied "none" when asked about religious affiliation.
Anyone who has ever covered the daily news briefings at the White
House with any degree of frequency can readily detect the same
disdain of religion among the White House press corps.
For example:
President Reagan has for years been known as a devout and
regularly attending church member. From June until Feb. 21 he
stopped attending services. He has not invited clergy to conduct
services either in the White House (like President Nixon) or at Camp
David (like President Carter). The White House press corps ignored
this, almost entirely. So most of the American people are not aware of
it.
Public expressions of concern about the president by even top
religious leaders, when asked about during daily press briefings, are
usually treated as a joke - not only by almost all of the reporters, but
by such presidential news secretaries as Larry Speakes.
Among the nation's large number of religious news media, only a
handful have reporters who have been given accreditation to the
White House. And rarely, if ever, do they ask any questions. They
prefer instead to sit in the rear, in silent respect of the regulars.
For anyone (like this writer) who persists in raising questions of
religious news (and interest to millions of religious Americans) there
is generally scorn and resentment from the regulars.
Ann Compton of ABC News, for example, in 1978 complained in print
about my asking "human rights and religious questions" at the daily
news briefings.
But no official at ABC News has ever explained why questions about
religion and human rights are not always appropriate in the White
House -- especially the 1978 White House lived in by a Born Again
Baptist who still attends Sunday School.