From: rja@redwood26.cray.com (Russ Anderson)
Subject: Re: misinformation from the right
Originator: rja@redwood26
Organization: The 1991 World Champion Minnesota Twins!
Distribution: usa
Date: 28 Aug 92 12:06:03 CDT


In article <1992Aug27.200107.23131@afit.af.mil>, jswitzer@afit.af.mil (Chip Switzer) writes:
> alex@engr3.umbc.edu (alex) writes:
> >-- 
> >                               Alex Crain::UMBC Academic Computing Services
> >The feminist agenda is a socialist, anti-family political movement that 
> >encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice 
> >witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians. - Pat Robertson 1992
> 
> I hope you have a better source for this than rec.humor, Alex.

The following was in talk.politics.misc.

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From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Subject: Pat Robertson
Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 20:18:42 CDT

Here's the AP wire report on the Pat Robertson letter.

NY Times, p.A16, 8/26/92

ROBERTSON LETTER ATTACKS FEMINISTS

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Says Effort in Iowa Supports Witches and Child Killers
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DES MOINES, Aug 25 (AP) -- A fund-raising letter written by the
evangelist Pat Robertson in opposition to a proposed equal rights
amendment to the Iowa Constitution suggests that feminists want women
to kill their children and practice witchcraft.

The equal rights amendment, on which Iowans will vote Nov. 3, is a
broadly worded measure that would bar sex discrimination.

But Mr. Robertson's letter, distributed late last month to supporters
of the evangelical organization Christian Coalition, described the
proposal as part of a "feminist agenda" that "is not about equal
rights for women."

Instead, the letter said, "it is about a socialist, anti-family,
political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands,
kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and
become lesbians."

Mr. Robertson, a 1988 Republican Presidential contender, included in
the letter a plea that money be sent to the group Stop ERA to "help
defeat ERA and defend the family in Iowa."

Betty Durden, head of the group Iowa Equal Rights Amendment 1992,
said Mr. Robertson's letter was "ridiculous."

But Ione Dilley, a member of Stop ERA and chairwoman of the Iowa
Christian Coalition, said that although she would not defend Mr.
Robertson's references to child-killing and witchcraft, he was
correct about hidden agendas.

She said her proof came from a hearing called by state officials
seeking opinions on how the amendment should be summarized on the
Iowa ballot.  She said the meeting had been attended by officials for
the National Organization for Women, Planned Parenthood and "the
homosexuals."

"If this resolution to change our Constitution were not vital to
them," Mrs. Dilley said, "why would they show up at this hearing?"
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