But some preach violence against others. Some war on non-whites. Others war on gay people. Still others war on abortion, tree-huggers, the federal government. In my opinion, any religious-right groups that operate on that same obsessive control of others is deserving of the same media splash, and investigative scrutiny, as Heaven's Gate.
Cults are a star-spangled part of the American tradition.
Protestants even considered Catholics dangerous when the latter emigrated here in force in the 1800s. Last but not least, the anti-cult script calls for cyberspace to be villified as a hotbed of cults. In a nation founded on culthood, the new cults never had a problem recruiting, whether it was by radio, phone, telegraph or Pony Express. How odd to blame the Internet, when TV and radio news coverage have given Heaven's Gate a billion dollars' worth of free publicity in the last few days. Her publisher is Wildcat Press.