Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 00:46:36 -0500 From: Dionisio To: Multiple recipients of list GLB-NEWS Subject: Religious Right Targets Democrats (fwd) This is a tad late, but it does cast some things in an interesting light... Of interest is the "philistine list" at the end. They're targeting democrates only. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: frdmwriter@aol.com (FrdmWriter) Newsgroups: alt.politics.homosexuality Subject: Religious Right Targets Democrats Date: 6 Nov 1994 21:15:05 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) * * * F R E E D O M W R I T E R * * * P R E S S R E L E A S E Religious Right Issues 'Hit List' of Democrats The Capitol Hill Prayer Alert, a Washington, DC-based Religious Right organization, is urging its members to petition God to bring evil upon a published list of 25 Democratic candidates. The so-called "Philistine List" includes two governors, seven senators, and 16 members of the House. According to Harry Valentine, one of the group's founders, the list comprises "particularly objectionable candidates, mostly incumbents who have demonstrated themselves to be enemies of Christianity and Biblical morality." "Don't hesitate to pray imprecatory Psalms over them," wrote Valentine in the group's newsletter. "Imprecatory" means to "call down evil upon." Imprecatory Psalms include: "Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow" (Psalm 109:8,9). "Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them" (Psalm 55:15). "The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked" (Psalm 58:10). The Capitol Hill Prayer Alert meets in a town house across the street from the U.S. Supreme Court. It is understood that Justice Clarence Thomas visits the ministry on occasion. The Capitol Hill Prayer Alert operated a booth at the Christian Coalition's national Road to Victory conference, held in September at the Washington Hilton. During that conference, Rev. Pierre Bynum, another leader of the Prayer Alert, told The Freedom Writer newsletter that he believed that abortion is a capital offense and that doctors who perform abortions should be executed. Bynum also called homosexuality a capital offense. For years, anti-abortionists have used imprecatory prayers against doctors who perform abortions. Coupled with wanted posters of doctors, this type of activity has taken its toll. Repeated imprecatory prayer can be auto-suggestive, especially to unbalanced members of the prayer groups. According to Skipp Porteous of the Institute for First Amendment Studies, "After continual reinforcement it doesn't take much for a religious fanatic to 'hear the voice of God' and then go out and shoot someone." The Institute for First Amendment Studies, founded in 1984, defends First Amendment freedoms with particular emphasis on the separation of church and state. Based in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the group is national in scope. For more information, contact frdmwriter@aol.com. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | THE PHILISTINE LIST | | | | GOVERNORSHIPS: HOUSE: | | Gov. Mario Cuomo (D-NY) Rep. Tom Foley (D-WA) | | Gov. Ann Richards (D-TX) Rep. Pat Schroeder (D-CO) | | Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-MO) | | SENATE: Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) | | Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D-IL) | | Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) | | Sen. Bob Kerry (D-NE) Rep. Vic Fasio (D-CA) | | Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) Rep. Leslie Byrne (D-VA) | | Sen. Jim Sasser (D-TN) Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-IN) | | Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) Rep. Charles Schumer (D-NY) | | Sen. Harris Wofford (D-PA) Rep. Jack Brooks (D-TX) | | ------------------------------- Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) | | "Give special attention to the Rep. Gerry Studds (D-MA) | | enclosed Philistine List. Don't Rep. Henry Gonzales (D-TX) | | hesitate to pray imprecatory Rep. James Moran (D-VA) | | Psalms over them." Rep. Karan English (D-AZ) | | | | Capitol Hill Prayer Alert * October 26, 1994 | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TwinkCode v1.12 T8(6!) C3 L5w dv a- w- c+v y! e k(-) s- m1 m2+ GEEK 2.1 GS/L/O !d(?) H++ s+: g+ p? w++ v>!v C+ US+ P--- E- N++@ K++ !W M+ -po+ Y t+@ 5++ j+ G tv b++ !D B- e+ u(++) h f r n+(-) y+(**) Finger for PGP 2.6.1 public key And the Thought of the Moment (tm) is... And this is a table ma'am. What, in essence, it consists of is a horizontal rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical columnar supports, which we call legs. The tables in this laboratory, ma'am, are as advanced in design as one will find anywhere in the world. -- Michael Frayn, "The Tin Men"