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...ordinance was enacted last January despite the opposition of Bryant. Now 37, she was a runner-up for Miss America in 1959 and has made several million-record sellers. She earns around $500,000 a year, including $100,000 for extolling Florida citrus fruits on TV. A devout Baptist, Bryant claims she was "born again" at the age of eight. As an entertainer, says Bryant, she sees and tolerates homosexuals. But she opposes this ordinance because it prevents private and parochial schools from discriminating against homosexuals in hiring teachers. Her four children attend a Baptist school. Says she: "When...
BANS ON "ILLEGAL" MEETINGS. The regime has levied heavy fines against small groups of believers who meet to talk or pray without official approval. Some people have been penalized merely for eating dinner together after church. Earlier this year one group was fined for singing Baptist hymns at home, another for being in a room with Bible verses on the wall that were deemed "contrary to the rules of decency...
...major author of the petition is Oxford-educated firebrand Josif Ton, 42, a Baptist pastor in Ploiesti. Within a few hours after the petition was broadcast over the U.S.-run Radio Free Europe, Rumanian police picked up Ton and his cosigners. During a series of interrogation sessions that began at 7:30 a.m., three of the six leaders were punched and kicked. After four weeks of grilling, the Evangelicals were released-with a warning that they remain in danger of being prosecuted for conspiracy or treason...
...argues that infant baptism should be phased out because it signifies ties to "family, nation and society" as much as a person's identification with Christ. The church, he says, should baptize only those who "confess their faith." If Moltmann had added total immersion in water, a Southern Baptist would have felt right at home...
...SQUEEZE A FRUIT FOR ANITA BRYANT reads the T shirt worn in many of Manhattan's gay bars. But for homosexuals in Miami, Singer Bryant's crusade against gay rights is no joke. A born-again Baptist and TV promoter for the Florida citrus industry, she has spent most of the past three months organizing a drive to repeal Dade County's new ordinance barring discrimination against homosexuals in housing, employment and public accommodations. As a result of two rulings, that issue is scheduled to be settled June 7 in a public referendum...