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Pen Points
Letters to Gay Today |
Kerry Lobel's Leaving NGLTF
She has reached out to Americans of all faiths, races, genders and sexual orientations, working for the day when personal characteristics like these are no longer a source of division and discrimination among our people. By leading NGLTF to build a stronger state and local movement, Kerry Lobel has made America's soil all-the-more fertile for openly gay and lesbian candidates and made it easier for us at the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund to help elect these great leaders throughout the country. As head of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, the only national organization whose central mission is to increase the number of outstanding openly gay and lesbian public servants, I am very grateful for her efforts that have done so much for our community and our nation.
Brian K. Bond
The DeMoss Foundation & Jerry Falwell
I had begun to consider them problematical when I found them difficult to contact when I wanted to suggest that Reggie White's line of racist and homophobic blather made him a problematical spokesmodel for the Gospel. It appeared that they wanted their privacy rather badly even as they were assaulting mine with their advertising campaigns. I do think this a moral problem, Nancy DeMoss does not seem to see it that way. The foundation she runs pumps out $25 million a year to promote its version of the Gospel. It does not take much reading between Time's carefully written lines to conclude that the DeMosses decided to save Mr. Falwell's all too ample butt from being sucked down the considerable sinkhole of debt he had created at his university. The guy who put up the $70 million that made Liberty U. solvent is Mark DeMoss's father-in-law. "Young" Mr. DeMoss was "mentored" by Mr. Falwell, and now does p.r. for a select group of evangelists. It would appear that Miss Nancy Jr. spilled the beans in a book, The Rebirth of America, that the foundation published for her in 1986. Gay people, abortion, and those awful, secular(ist), public schools are all on her "Bad News" list. Even Time chooses to be so discreet that it does not disclose which Florida city the DeMoss Foundation's offices are located in, but perhaps a bit of careful investigation would turn up a juicy tid bit or two, especially given that Gay Today has so many friends in Florida.
Perhaps Bob Kunst discussed the DeMoss Foundation's role in all this in material I did not see, but I think his role would have been more productive if he had focused more on the foundation/family's efforts to preserve Mr. Falwell's status as a public figure. His criticisms of Mr. White are not without foundation, but there is a large element of the pot claiming that the kettle is discolored in that discourse. Jonathan Justice What will the Seattle Battle Accomplish?
Clinton's stand as both pro-WTO and pro-demonstration is the correct one. The synthesis of these two opposing positions is the future of international trading law. Navato |