From: SteveWard6@aol.com Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 09:01:14 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Fwd:right wing anti-Gay action alert... Hi everyone... I thought I would take time from our campaign for the DC Council seat and forward this "action alert" from the "american family association" They incorrectly refer to the Windy City Times as a "homosexual paper in Seattle" Use the information as you see fit.... Steve Michael and Wayne Turner PS we will be sending out some stuff on our campaign and about the Presidential Advisory Council on AIDS in the next two days.... --------------------- Forwarded message: From: bud@berean.net (Buddy Smith) Sender: owner-afa-alert@berean.net To: afa-alert@berean.net Date: 97-04-06 06:50:47 EDT The AFA Alert is a one-way list. Responses will not be posted to the list. AFA ACTION ALERT American Family Association <>< Dr. Donald E. Wildmon, President P. O. Drawer 2440 Tupelo, Mississippi 38803 Telephone: 601/844-5036 Fax: 601/844-9176 Email: bud@afa.net World Wide Web: http://www.afa.net ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ American Family Association decided to allow subscribers to the AFA ACTION ALERT to read how hateful, intollerant, and bigoted the homosexual media is in America. The first article you will read is a report on our HOPE '97 Tour by a writer for a homosexual paper in Seattle, Washington. Next, I have included a press release by Kerusso Ministries announcing the next stop on the HOPE '97 Tour - Colorado Springs. Please pray with us that God will bless the HOPE '97 Tour as it moves on to Colorado Springs. We also ask you to pray that the church will wake up and become faithful to Scripture by standing against the homosexual rights movement while at the same time loving the homosexual enough to give them the hope of the Gospel. Thank you, Buddy Smith, Editor AFA ACTION ALERT ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ANTI-GAY CHURCH TOUR HITS THE ROAD by Lisa Neff Contributing Writer Windy City Times (a homosexual paper in Seattle) Rolling into U.S. cities between the Village People reunion concerts and the Tina Turner tour is a peculiar addition to the '97 concert season - a Christian right campaign to "counter the growing proliferation of pro-homosexual philosophy" in America. The tour is billed as Hope '97, but Lesbian and Gay rights leaders are calling the campaign Hate '97. "The intent is to provoke controversy," said Alan Klein, national communications director of the Gay/Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. "The Hope tour is truly a hate tour, nothing more." The tour, launched last week in Phoenix, is cosponsored by Kerusso Ministries and the American Family Association (AFA), the Mississippi-based organization best known for its campaign against the National Endowment for the Arts. Hope '97 national coordinator Buddy Smith said the tour's mission is to rescue American institutions - business, education, entertainment, media, politics and the church -from the influence of Gays and Lesbians. AFA founder and president Donald Wildmon said, "Radical homosexual activists are bringing America to a very significant crossroads. Acceptance of indifference to the homosexual movement will result in society's destruction by allowing civil order to be redefined and by plummeting ourselves, our children and our grandchildren into an age of Godlessness. Indeed, the very foundation of Western civilization is at stake." Over the next year the tour will travel to 15 cities, where audiences will hear from entertainers and speakers. The tour's headliner is Michael Johnston, a Christian right activist, who, after being diagnosed with AIDS, fell into the ex-Gay movement in 1989. Early press statement about Hope '97 indicated that the tour's audience would be supporters of the Christian right movement, but more recent announcements suggest that promoters want a Gay and Lesbian crowd at the events. "Hope '97 is not a particularly political tour," Johnston said. "Our message is one of hope to those individuals who are struggling with homosexuality and one of warning to America if we continue down the path of acceptance, affirmation and promotion of homosexuality. "Frankly the purpose of the rally is not for a bunch of self-righteous folks to bash homosexuals. It is for those who know that America must deal honestly with a moral crisis and it's for homosexuals, their friends and their family members who want to know the truth," Johnston said. But GLAAD's Klein said Gays and Lesbians, as well as their friends and family, should recognize the tour as a promotion akin to the medicine tent revivals that traveled the country a century ago hawking elixir and pseudo religion. "This is really a desperate attempt by the AFA and Kerusso Ministries to try to get public attention for their bigoted and hateful agenda," Klein said. "This is such quackery and I would hope it will be seen as such. These groups, they are nothing less that hate groups akin to the KKK. They are horrible and destructive to Gays and esbians." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PRESS RELEASE Kerusso Ministries P. O. Box 2399 Newport News, Virginia 23609 (757) 872-8878 CONTACT: Buddy Smith / HOPE '97 National Coordinator (601) 844-5036 Ext. 218 Tom Pedigo / HOPE '97 Coordinator - Colorado Springs (719) 598-9761 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 4, 1997 CRUSADER TAKES MESSAGE TO HOMOSEXUALS IN COLORADO SPRINGS NEWPORT NEWS, VA - Michael Johnston, president of Kerusso Ministries and a former homosexual with AIDS, will continue to take his message to homosexuals, their friends and families and the nation. Kerusso Ministries, in conjunction with American Family Association, is taking his message of hope and warning to fifteen major U.S. cities including Colorado Springs during the national HOPE '97 tour. Johnston commented, "It is time for the church to wake up and take a stand against the continued forward movement of the homosexual social and political agenda. It is long past time for those of us who have walked away from homosexuality to take what we have learned to the streets." Johnston intends to confront the pro-homosexual message directly. "Our message is one of hope to those individuals who are struggling with homosexuality. Churches and other groups that twist the Word of God in order to condone homosexual behavior are promoting a lie; they offer no hope at all. We are also carrying a warning to the church and the rest of America about the consequences of continuing down the path of acceptance, affirmation and promotion of homosexuality," Johnston said. Following an eleven year involvement in homosexuality and infection with HIV, Johnston rejected his homosexual identity in 1989. His crusade has included political activism which resulted in the repeal of an Anchorage, Alaska city ordinance that granted special legal protections to homosexuals, the ousting of public officials who voted for it and the adoption fo legislation prohibiting the recognition of same-sex marriages in the State of Alaska. 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