50 state emergency declarations ready for President Clinton to sign
WASHINGTON (BP)--Fifty declarations of emergency, one for each state, have been prepared for President Clinton to sign on New Year's weekend if regional computer glitches occur in the United States due to the "Y2K" problem.
Land says Bible teaching guidelines ‘mixed blessing’
WASHINGTON (BP)--A decision by several religious and educational organizations to create guidelines that will help public schools teach about the Bible without violating church-state separation, is so much of a "mixed blessing" that Richard Land is unsure it is much of a blessing at all.
Controversy continues to mount in N.Y. over art exhibit Land calls ‘blasphe
NEW YORK (BP)–Though a federal judge recently ordered the City of New York to restore $7.2 million in funding to a museum hosting a controversial art exhibit, the ruling does not validate the “blasphemous nature of the work involved,” a Southern Baptist ethics leader said. Richard Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission […]
Some evangelicals back Bush as Republican most likely to win
WASHINGTON (BP)–A front-page New York Times article Nov. 7 reported that prominent conservative leaders, evangelical Christians and the National Right to Life Committee are working behind the scenes to persuade their backers to support Texas Gov. George Bush as the Republican most likely to win the White House next year. With candidate Patrick J. Buchanan […]
Yale researcher, dead at 66, warned of epidemic from smokable cocaine
WASHINGTON (BP)–An early prophet of the tragedy of smokable cocaine has died at age 66. Robert Byck, a psychiatrist and Yale Medical School brain researcher, warned in 1979 in testimony before the congressional House Select Committee on Narcotic Abuse and Control, “Users become almost totally dependent on the drug, will do anything to get it […]
Mother of 2 takes stand against Disney’s ‘Teaching Mrs. Tingle&
GRANT PARISH, La. (BP)–Susan Clarius had never before played the role of an activist. But the mother of two decided to take a stand when she saw a TV advertisement for a new push-the-envelope movie, “Teaching Mrs. Tingle,” released by a subsidiary of The Disney Company. “My mom, a member of Alpine Baptist Church in […]
In the Majority
As some 4,000 voices joined together in an impromptu Lord's Prayer at a recent high school graduation ceremony in Maryland, one protesting graduating senior left in a huff, but thousands of residents in Calvert County proclaimed a victory for majority rule. "This is a democratic society in which the majority rules," said pastor Phil Logan […]
Potential ACLU costs nudge decision to remove town’s Christian fish s
REPUBLIC, Mo. (BP)–Facing the possibility of paying the American Civil Liberties Union’s costs in a lawsuit against the ichthus on their city seal, leaders of the small Missouri town of Republic have voted to remove the Christian fish symbol. The July 19 decision by the town’s board of aldermen was loudly booed by those in […]
Organizers of Army boycott hoping to add SBC’s support
WASHINGTON (BP)–Organizers of an enlistment boycott targeting the U.S. Army for approving witchcraft rituals on Army bases were hoping the Southern Baptist Convention would join the boycott during the SBC annual meeting June 15-16 in Atlanta. “We need Southern Baptists to get behind this in a big way,” said Paul M. Weyrich, president of the […]
Land questions whether Kosovo peace will last with Yugoslav leader in power
WASHINGTON (BP)–The negotiated Yugoslavian peace accord with NATO and the United Nations is potentially an unenforceable deal made with a liar, murderer and “Mafioso”-type thug that may prove unworkable, said Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. While Land has repeatedly called for the removal of Yugoslav President Slobodan […]
