lame denials

[Grant Barrett]

On 9/14/01 19:45, "sagehen" <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM> wrote:

> arnold zwicky writes:
>> 3.  speaker asserts that members of the aclu, abortionists, pagans,
>> feminists, gays, and lesbians must bear some responsibility for the
>> atrocities in new york and washington, because their attempts to
>> "secularize America" "make God mad", but a spokesperson denies hateful
>> intent by saying these remarks were "taken out of context".
>
> A friend wrote me that NYT & WP were reporting that Jerry Falwell & Pat
> Robertson had concurred in these just  these opinions on the latter's "700
> Club" (radio? or tv?) but I didn't hear that either had issued denials,
> lame or otherwise!

Those denials are in today's paper. I can't find it in the online version,
but today's New York Times, page A15, right two columns:

"Mr. Falwell released a statement yesterday on the controversy, saying,
'Despite the impression some may have from news reports today, I hold no one
other than the terrorists and the people and nations who have enabled and
harbored them responsible for Tuesday's attacks on this nation.'

'I sincerely regret that the comments I made during a long theological
discussion on a Christian television program yesterday were taken out of
their context and reported and that my thoughts--reduced to sound
bites--have detracted from the spirit of this day of mourning.'"

Robertson had a similar, but shorter denial.

Part of what Falwell said: "The abortionists have got to bear some burden
for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million
little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans,
and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who
are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People
for the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize American, I
point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.'"

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Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org
http://www.worldnewyork.org/