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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Censorship in education.
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Date: Fri, 1-Jun-84 17:39:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  1 17:39:21 1984
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>  From: dave@teldata.UUCP Thu May 24 07:47:11 1984
>
>  ...  I have done some research and found out that they are a
>  part of the New Age Movement which wants to  do  away  with  all  religions
>  except  theirs.  In  seems  that they want to mainly do away with the Jews,
>  and the Christians.  It is stated in a book called 'The Hidden  Dangers  of
>  the  Rainbow by Constance Cumbey' that Hitler was high up in this movement.
...
>  
>                           Just trying to stay free,
>  				Dave.
>  
The insidious 'they' named above is People for the American Way,
an anti-censorship organization founded by Norman Lear and
numerous moderate political and religious leaders, almost all
of whom are, of course, Christians or Jews from a broad spectrum of
denominations.

'The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow' by Constance Cumbey is recommended
by Dave and I'll second that.  I haven't read it yet but I'm sure
it's amusing enough to make it worth digging it up somewhere.
I witnessed an interesting interview with Ms Cumbey on television.
She was caught in a number of preposterous falsehoods, including
the claim that a certain cathedral (St John the Divine?) in New York
was being equipped with lasers which, in cooperation with
commsats, would make possible the 'projection' of holograms into all
parts of the  (I didn't catch why).

On a more mundane level, Ms C was accused of making a large list of
demonstrably false statements.  In each case,
her defense was either to deny making them (whereupon her accuser
read aloud the statements from her own book or, in one case,
played a recording of her making the statement ('Oh, I remember now!')),
or to claim she had made a mistake there but everything ELSE was true,
and anyway, her bad information was probably planted by a conspirator
anyway.

I saw the interview on, of all things, the Christian Broadcasting Network!

D Gary Grady
Duke University Computation Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-4146
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