From: ric@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Graffiti 404-972-4999)
Subject: Letter from OCA post-election: real or hoax?
Summary: It looks like a fake, but I don't know.....
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 01:14:56 GMT

This message appeared on the GEnie online service. I am the sysop of the
gay & lesbian issues forum and this was entered by one of our users:


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Public Forum RT * Page 545
Category 16,  Topic 14
Message 272       Fri Nov 06, 1992
 
Since this came unsolicited in my mail I do not need permission to
quote it in it's entirety, and I think you should all see it.  It
comes from the Oregon Citizens' Alliance, the group that worked to put
Measure 9 on the ballot in oregon.

Dear Fellow Christian,

As you know, we members and supporters of the O.C.A. have long been
engaged in a Holy War against the "MILITANT HOMOSEXUAL LOBBY" and
their pedophilic agenda to legalize sex with our minor children.  Many
lessons have been learned.  We know that fighting the devil and his
homosexual disciples within our political system is fruitless.  Their
perverted lobby, Satanic in nature, is extremely powerful and cannot
be overcome or changed through man's laws alone.  They can and will be
defeated when all Christians unite. We must observe and implement
God's methods to exterminate homosexuals as laid out and proscribed to
us in detail by our Heavenly Father as found in His Holy Bible.
-Execution-, -Castration-, -Imprisonment-!  God's solutions!!!  Plain
and simple.  The Bible commands you to raise up the "Sword of
Righteousness" and slash the throat of the perverted heathen. Show
your compassion for the soul of the tortured homosexual by bleeding
him...to his death.  -This is an act of True Mercy-.  You have freed
this possessed pervert.  "So Commandeth Your Holy Father."

We all realize this is a difficult Commandment to adhere to as we are
compassionate children of a kind God.  But you -must- remember, -we
are the only true children of God- and we have been commanded by God
himself through the Bible to seek out and destroy those who would rape
and recruit our male children.  Jehovah compels us to protect our
children.  Remember Sodom and Gomorrah.

Demonstrate your love for Jesus and for your children!  The hope for a
future without homosexuals is dependent on your faith and willingness
to implement our Heavenly Father's plan as laid out in our Holy Bible.

Join us in our Blessed Crusade to save the children of Oregon.

Support the Oregon Citizens' Alliance.

A public service message brought to you by the Ecumenical Christian
Council and the many supporters of the oregon Citizens' Alliance.

For more information please contact your local branch of the Oregon
Citizens' Alliance.

Should you know the names of suspected or self-admitted homosexuals,
please send their names, addresses and phone numbers to the O.C.A.
Homosexual Names Collection Division (H.N.C.D.) in your area.

                                          In Jesus' Name,
                                          God Bless you!
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The user has been discussing it there with others, and many expressed
shock and outrage. I have asked for a copy of the actual letter, but I
wanted to see if any of you in soc.motss or alt.politics.homosexuality
land had seen or heard about this letter.

Based on the generalized advice in the last paragraph instead of an
acctual address or phone number, I feel this may be a hoax letter sent
out to look as if it came from the OCA, in order to further escalate
the fight... but with these folks, you never know. How stupid is stupid?



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