Date:         Fri, 15 Dec 1995 16:19:45 -0500
From: CORick@AOL.COM
Subject:      CHILD MOLESTER SAYS SEX BUSINESS HAS DOUBLED

                                                                Contact:  Rick Cendo
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CHILD MOLESTER SAYS
SEX BUSINESS HAS DOUBLED

COLIN COOK TO RESUME "SEMINARS" IN DENVER

Colorado for Family Values-endorsed minister
says business up 100 percent in 3 weeks,
plans to resume sex seminars in Denver, Colorado Springs in '96

Accuses The Denver Post of slander

Says alleged fax provided by Colorado for Family Values shows
homosexual activists "worked hand in glove with the Denver Post"


Denver, CO, December 14, 1995 -- The Colorado For Family
Values-endorsed minister who has a documented, uncontested
history of sexually molesting boys and young men said in a new 10-
page letter to his mailing list that his sex "counseling" business
"has almost doubled in the last three weeks" and that he plans to
resume sex seminars in Denver and Colorado Springs "in the new
year."

"We are growing!" Cook says of his Arvada-based ministry,
FaithQuest Colorado, Inc.

The growth of Cook's unregulated, unlicensed, and unaccountable
sex counseling in Colorado is fueled by Colorado for Family
Values, which has promoted and advertised Cook for most of 1995
and continues to endorse Cook as a wonderful counselor to
sexually troubled youth.

After an Oct. 27 front-page expose of Cook in The Denver Post,
CFV chair Will Perkins said, "CFV does not believe the
accusations against Colin Cook."  Perkins both refuses to
investigate Cook and refuses to listen to the 52,000-word tape
recordings of Cook having phone sex this summer with a young
client.

"If I were to listen to those tapes, it would be like wading in a
cesspool anyway," Perkins last week told the Colorado Springs
newspaper The Independent.

Perkins' former lieutenant at CFV, Amendment 2 co-author Kevin
Tebedo, accuses The Denver Post of manufacturing the tape
recordings.  Cook refuses to comment on the authenticity of the
tape recordings, even in the 10-page letter denying the allegations
against him.

In the widely circulated letter, Cook also accuses The Denver Post
of slander for saying that Cook has had phone sex with clients as
late as this summer.  At the same time, he says he will not sue The
Denver Post, although he says "Christian men" have advised him to
do so.

"We now know from a fax sent to Colorado for Family Values by
homosexual activist Richard Cendo," Cook writes, "that the
homosexual activist community worked hand in glove with the
Denver Post to produce this article."

Richard Cendo says Cook is lying. "I have never sent anything to
Colorado for Family Values which stated that the homosexual
activist community, or anyone else,  has now, or at any time in the
past, worked hand in glove, or in any other manner, with the
Denver Post," Cendo said.

"Colin Cook is lying, and he is defaming The Denver Post with
reckless disregard for the truth," Cendo said  "The real reason
Cook won't to sue The Post is that he knows he's dead if all this
ever gets to a court of law."

Cendo said that Gays and Lesbians Against Immoral Lifestyles
once again calls on CFV to withdraw its endorsement of Cook.

"Cook's molestation ministry is growing exponentially because
CFV refuses to act responsibly," Cendo said.

"Will Perkins says the allegations against Cook are not true, but
then he refuses to listen to the tape recordings that prove the
allegations ARE true.  Will Perkins has distanced himself from
Cook by saying that CFV will no longer fund Cook's seminars, but
then he refuses to withdraw CFV's endorsement and warn the
thousands of people CFV has misled all year long."

"Will Perkins is waffling and stonewalling to save CFV
embarrassment," Cendo said.  "And he is more than willing to put
boys and young men in harm's way in order to save CFV
embarrassment."

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