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...effort to stop the "witch hunt," Barkouras last February told the Rev. Gene Garrison, a Baptist minister and close friend of Boren's, that he was prepared to expose Delaporte and Boren as homosexuals. In Boren's case, it was an old charge-and one that he denied during his Senate campaign by publicly swearing, on a white-bound Bible, that he was heterosexual. Barkouras took no further action, but a few weeks later Jack Anthony, 28, an heir to an Oklahoma department-store fortune and a student of Barkouras', was arrested at 4 a.m. while changing...
Consider the case of the Rev. DeWitt Hill, who preaches a puritanical life-style in his pentecostal church in Little Rock, Ark. A woman in his church was married to a Baptist who, says Hill, "liked to go nightclubbing and go to the dog races." When his wife divorced him, he sued the Rev. Hill for $1 million, on grounds of "alienation of affections through teaching of the Bible," also claiming that he does not go to nightclubs or bet on dog races. It took the jury only five minutes to decide in Hill's favor last year...
...American Way," Doug Marlette says, when asked to describe his politics. Pressed to be more specific, he steadfastly refuses to label himself. "Labels have sort of lost their meaning," he says. "I feel that my values and attitudes came out of going to Sunday school in Magnolia Street Baptist Church. I believe what they taught me, I believe what they taught me in civics class in Maddox Junior High School in Laurel, Miss. I took them seriously." Then he adds, musingly, "I don't know whether they intended that...
...himself a Southerner. "This is something that annoys my readers," he says. "Particularly when they don't like my cartoons. They'd like to be able to say that I came down from the outside, an 'outside agitator.' My newspaper likes to stress that I was raised Southern Baptist." It also helps that Marlette's liberalism is not libertinism; not the "anything goes" of the East Side limousines, but a belief in the dignity of man. "I don't like liberals much," Marlette says. "Although it's sort of an uncomfortable position because liberals generally like my cartoons. But their...
...conservative evangelicals undoubtedly hurt Jimmy Carter. According to an ABC News/Harris survey, Carter won the white Baptist vote in 1976, 56% to 43%, and lost it this time, 56% to 34%. The Harris analysis indicates that the shift in the evangelical vote accounted for two-thirds of Reagan's ten-point margin over Carter. Other experts do not agree; they claim that the New Right had its main effect in state and local elections where certain targeted liberal candidates were already in serious trouble...