>From: PMDAtropos <pmdatropos@aol.com>
>Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 09:03:05 -0400

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   After being sued by the writer it had hired to dig into the Phelps
Family Cult, and after being raked over the journalistic coals in their
area, the "Topeka Capital-Journal" finally did the right thing and
published a week-long set of excerpts from Jon Michael Bell's startling
manuscript "Addicted to Hate."

   The "Capital-Journal" series of excerpts, entitled "Hate for the Love
of God," finally saw the printed page in July, and Bell has now dropped
his lawsuit against the newspaper's owners, Stauffer Communications. (As
some of you already know, it was by attaching the 170-some page manuscript
of his work to the suit that it became public, thereby leading to the bad
publicity for the paper.)

   Although Bell has dropped his suit, the ownership of the book
manuscript of "Addicted to Hate" is still unclear. Stauffer had initially
claimed it owned the Bell's book, although it had only commissioned a
series of articles.

   Bell recently said that he was happy the "Capital-Journal" had
published some of his material and suggested that "both Stauffer and I
should renounce all further claims to the copyright."

   Instead, Bell suggested that all profits from sales of the book (which
was to have been published by Andrews & McMeel of Kansas City) go to the
Topeka AIDS Project, one of Phelps' most frequent local targets in his
"God hates fags" picketing circuses.

   Sweet Goddess, I love irony.

Keith