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Subject: [BPR] - Bauer Decries "Anti-Christian Bigotry"
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 09:42:40 -0500

From: moza7@netzero.net

Bauer Decries "Anti-Christian Bigotry"

WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNS) -- Republican presidential hopeful Gary
Bauer Tuesday addressed anti-Christian bigotry in America,
saying that prejudice against Roman Catholics "is one of the
last socially acceptable prejudices left in America."

In a speech at St. Anselm College, a Catholic institution,
Bauer promised to make sure that "all Americans of faith will be
able to acknowledge their Creator in public as the founding
fathers did in our founding documents and public institutions."

Bauer told his audience, "Racism and anti-Semitism, thankfully
have been relegated to the lunatic fringes and extreme elements
of our society. Racial epithets and anti-Semitic slurs are no
longer tolerated in polite company...yet expressions of anti-
Catholic bigotry not only abound but are tolerated, especially
by the cultured elite, often in the name of free expression or
artistic license."

If elected, Bauer promised to use the bully pulpit of the
presidency "to cast the bright light of truth on the squalid
expression of anti-Catholic bigotry." In his address, he
characterized the United States as "a nation with the soul of a
church."

Quoting Dr. William Donohue, president of the Catholic League
for Religious and Civil Rights, Bauer said the bigotry
experienced by many Catholics today comes not from the Ku Klux
Klan or Protestants, but from "respected men and women in
established institutions."

"Such organizations as Planned Parenthood and People for the
American Way only minimally conceal their contempt for
Catholicism and people of traditional faith in general. Catholic
baiting has become the anti-Semitism of the liberal elite," said
Bauer, and he cited recent statements by media mogul Ted Turner,
who advised the Pope to "get with it."

"More recently, we witnessed the pathetic spectacle of Gov.
Jesse Ventura telling us that organized religion is for mental
weaklings. Perhaps Gov. Ventura should tell that to the Holy
Father who lived under and fought against both Nazis and
Communists, who was wounded and survived an assassination
attempt and who helped tear down the Iron Curtain," Bauer said.

"Every day in China, Catholic and Protestant Christians are
arrested and imprisoned for practicing their faith. Are these
courageous Christians to be slandered as weaklings?" Bauer asked.

The candidate said today's anti-Catholicism is part of a
pattern of hostility from "radical secularists...toward those
institutions that stand in defense of Judeo-Christian moral
values and the ideals of Western civilization."

"The Catholic Church and evangelical Protestantism are the
chief defenders of such values and ideals. These Christian
institutions stand for the great moral traditions of Western
civilization -- marriage, the sacredness of sex within the
institution of marriage, the sanctity of life at all its stages
and immutable standards of good and evil, right and wrong."

Bauer also mentioned recent controversies surrounding art
exhibits, notably the one at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New
York, where an exhibit featuring a dung-encrusted portrait of
the Virgin Mary outraged many in the Christian community.

Bauer noted that constitutional arguments were used to defend
the Brooklyn Museum exhibit, while the same Constitution is
interpreted in a way that prevents nativity scenes in town
squares. "Apparently, if those impermissible nativity scenes
were decorated with dung, then they would be constitutional,"
Bauer said.

He also questioned whether obscene and blasphemous exhibits
contribute to "a climate of hate that inflames the unbalanced
and inspires them to commit murderous acts," a reference to
recent shootings around the country.

Bauer added that if elected, "I will protect religious
expression, work to restore the freedom of the states to allow
acknowledgment of God in public places and to allow the posting
of the Ten Commandments in public buildings. I will defend the
rights of parents to guide their children's education and will
work to insure that every family has a choice of schools."

And invoking his pro-life stance, Bauer said, "As I have done
for the past 25 years, I will fight to make certain that every
one of our children is welcomed into the world and protected by
the law."

(=A9 1999, Conservative News Service)

via: http://www.mcjonline.com/news/news3614.htm

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Subject: [BPR] - Quake Rocks West Turkey Ahead of OSCE Summit
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:00:55 -0500

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November 11 11:08 AM ET

Quake Rocks West Turkey Ahead of OSCE Summit

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A moderate earthquake rocked western Turkey
on Thursday, shaking the commercial capital Istanbul where scores of
world leaders are to gather for a security summit next week.

Anatolian news agency said 83 people were injured in the western
town of Adapazari, close to the epicenter of the tremor, as they leaped
from balconies and windows for the security of open ground.

Buildings in Istanbul quivered for about 15 seconds as the quake hit
at the end of the working day. Seismologists put its strength at 5.7 on
the Richter scale.

It was one of the strongest of a series of aftershocks that has hit
northwestern Turkey since the devastating August tremor that killed
at least 17,000 people.

Telephone lines to the region were jammed, either by damage to lines
or worried relatives checking on family members.

The people of northwestern Turkey are already traumatized by the
August 17 earthquake, which left hundreds of thousands homeless
and out of work.

The quake was felt in scores of tent cities across the northwest where
homeless quake survivors are sheltering.

"This really shook us. I was in the shop and things began falling off
the shelf. People fled into the streets and traffic has completely
stalled," said Yusuf Karasakal, a student in Adapazari, close to the
quake's epicenter.

Turkey's chief seismologist told the private NTV television channel
the tremor had its epicenter near the town of Sapanca in the province
of Adapazari 125 km (77 miles) east of Istanbul.

"This was an aftershock and we have said hundreds of times before
that these would take place," Ahmet Mete Isikara told the channel.

President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin are expected to
arrive Turkey next week along with some 52 other world leaders to
attend the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE) summit.

The summit runs from November 18 to 19 in Istanbul. Some sections of
the city were damaged in the August tremor but its major hotels,
conference centers and ancient monuments emerged unscathed.

via: hblondel@tampabay.rr.com

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Subject: [BPR] - Scientists create 'neutron star'
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:33:16 -0500

From: "Moza" <moza7@netzero.net>

Scientists are now in the process of "creating temperatures that
rival that found at the centre of the Sun" using a new machine
housed out in New Mexico.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_515000/515765.stm

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Subject: [BPR] - Nov 12, 1999 TV Programs
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:40:21 -0500

From: "Moza" <moza7@netzero.net>

9:00 PM Eastern

 A&E - INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS - "Inside Heaven's Gate" -
          The followers of Marshall Applewhite seek salvation in mass
          suicide.(CC)

 DISC - DISCOVERY NEWS - (CC)

 HIST - WHAT IF? - Historians ponder what the world
          would be today under different
          circumstances.(CC)(TVG)

9:30

DISC - DISCOVER MAGAZINE - "The Body Electric" -
          Doctors may be able to heal epilepsy and
          paralysis.(CC)

10:00

ABC - 20/20 - Some bad teachers can keep their
          jobs.(CC)

 TLC - 48 HOURS - "My Father's Killer" - A woman tries
          to save the man on death row who killed her
          father.(CC)

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