Word: leland
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...jokes now about his youthful "indiscretions," presenting them as typical of the 1960s. Tom Hayden, he likes to say, was tried for inciting to riot before he entered a state legislature. He claims without proof that the late U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland was a Black Panther. Those people were associated with violence, whereas "my branch of the Klan was nonviolent...
...Leland said he believes televangelism is no longer just a Southern sociological phenomenon, but a symptom of much spiritual displacement in modern America. People under the influence of television ministries are not so much foolish as lonely and well-intentioned, Leland added...
...Leland said he started the book shortly after the Jimmy and Tammy Fay Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart scandals broke, at a time when he "had become fascinated with Christian television." Leland's fictional televangelists, Ted and Becky Standish, though meant to be reminiscent of the Bakkers, were not meant to be representative of them, he said...
Though the book satirizes the television phenomenon, Leland said he did not see that as the book's focus. He said the book was more of a story of "gentle" people and their lives...
...They display a kind of gentleness to each other that perhaps is not expected," Leland said...