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HERALD DL'RHAM, N. C. CIR: 60,737 - ) 6L JUL 22 ---90 D.A. acted properly to ban rap album . " / "Music directly represents the sexual crimes that are being carried passions or states of the soul - gen• out on innocent members of our com• tleness, anger, courage, temperance ... munity. The district attorney certain• if one listens to the wrong kind of mu• ly is properly carrying out his.J sic, he will become the wrong kind of responsibility when he acts to restrict person; but conversely, if he listens to those things that encourage crime, da.: the right kind of music he will tend to grade the community and are thetd!. become the right kind of person." - selves against the laws duly written, Aristotle by our Legislature. Aristotle certainly was not trying I am a Christian and base my. to push "Judeo-Cnristian" values thinking and actions upon the authoe• upon his society, but he did recognize ity of the Bible. However, the acts a principle which has escaped the promoted by 2 Live Crew's album are "great intellects" of Orange County. regarded as vile and criminal acts the That principle is that what a person world around by all races and cul· listens to molds his personality and di· tures except in those few places rects his behavior. To deny this prin• where people have dropped to subhu• ciple is to prove one's ignorance of a man depravity. To allow the sale ()( vast volume of scientific docu• this album does not mean we have de• mentation. When a society defends fended human rights, but have vio-: the public promotion of songs that lated them in the worst way and' glorify rape and violent sexual per• given encouragement to those who version it will soon reap the harvest are already drawn to such atrocious of actions of what has been sown into acts. · the mind. There is no justifiable argument Even if Mr. Fox does not change, for defending the sale of 2 Live his mind again and ban the album, Crew's album "As Nasty As They those who made the album, those who Wanna Be." When a person takes up sell it, and those who listen all will be the "freedom of speech" argument to prosecuted for their actions. EVery defend the promotion of criminal, one will have to give account of hiS Or abusive, and perverted acts, that per• her actions to a holy God who does son only demonstrates how simple not base his judgment upon public and warped his reasoning powers are, opinion, but eternal precepts of right, not to mention the moral condition of Therefore, "Let the wicked fofSakte' his won soul or personality. Contrary his way, and the unrighteous man his to the recent immoral propaganda, thoughts: and let him return unto when Carl Fox banned the album he Lord, and He will have mercy u was not creating a thirst within peo• him; and to our God, for He will abun• ple to buy it, but taking proper legal dantly pardon." God has provided action to prevent the encouragement cleansing and salvation for the vilest of unmentionable crimes. H it has es• sinner through his son, Jesus Christ'. '~ caped the notice of some, this very Pastor Gary Webb newspaper has noted the rise in the _Calvary Missionary Baptist Churen number of rapes and other violent Carrboro CLIPPING SERVICE 1115 HILLSBORO RALEIGH, NC 27603 ? TEL. (919) 833-2079 CHAPEL HILL HERALD . DURHAM HERALD ED1110I DURHAM, N. C.

Gun control and self-defense As a pastor who has influence over eternal souls who are the laws, he will be able to purchase a gun seeking to represent the Lord Jesus Christ in this life and somewhere. who will have to give account to Him in the day of judg• It is not hard to understand why Ameri• ment, I have struggled with the issues of gun control and cans have begun to buy guns at an unprec• self-defense. edented rate, a large number being women More and more frequently church members have pro• and others who never considered gun own• posed questions regarding these issues, the intensity of their ership before. No doubt, some of those guns, concerns being fueled in recent months by three well• though bought with a good purpose in mind, publicized events: the murder of Kristin Lodge-Miller, the will end up being involved in accidents. Seagroves home-defense incident, and "Buy Back The Hill." That being the case and keeping the Lodge• These questions and discussions are no longer the enjoy• GARY able and abstract debates one would engage in while taking WEBB Miller verdict in mind, one wonders why a university class in ethics. They are now the everyday dis• money is not being raised to offer firearms cussions of neighboring housewives, parents and children Guest column instruction to the people of our community. and practically everyone who resides in our community. We have seen that Mace does not work and Very often the sides taken in these discussions follow the may even supply the criminal with an ex• political, philosophical lines of liberal versus conservative. It cuse in court for his actions. We have also come to the could probably be generally sum arized that in refe e c ro frightening realization that the legal system offers little pro• the Seagroves case and "Buy Back The Hill," that conserva• tection from those who engage in criminal conduct. tives emphasize gun ownership and self-defense while liber• Should a. pastor, desiring to be faithful to his calling, en• als emphasize the inherent danger of deadly weapons in courage his people to get rid of their only means of self• anyone's hands and putting the burden of protection on the defense? Christians are to live by faith. But is that faith is to shoulders of government. be placed, in the protection offered by our government, in But now we have been shocked by the decision rendered the supposed goodness of society at large, or in God who in the Lodge-Miller verdict. An innocent young woman is at• commands us to provide for the protection of our families? tacked and shot five times, once in the back of the head What is the real purpose or outcome of gun-control laws while lying bleeding on the ground. and efforts like "Buy Back The Hill?" And one last question: This is not the case to apply the command to "turn the Who bears the greater guilt, the man who attempts rape other cheek." It is time for justice to prevail. The Bible tells and commits a brutal murder, or the jury whose verdict usthat government "beareth not the sword in vain; for he is merely slaps his wrist? the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him This is one pastor who cannot support the government ef• that doeth evil." Yet, in the wake of the Lodge-Millerverdict, fort to disarm good citizens - and still have a clear con• liberal and conservative, male and female, black and white science before God or before the precious souls who attend are left with the stunning realization that there has been a his church. terrible miscarriage of justice. In a few short years, after being seasoned by prison life, this same man will once again The Rev. Garv Webb presides over Calvary Baptist Church, have the right to live in our community. And regardless of 1000 W. Main St. in Carrboro. CUPPINI.>" "'""v- 1115 HILLSBORO RALEIGH, NC 27603 ? TEL (919) 833-2079 NEWSPAPER CHAPEL H!LL, N.C. CIR1 6,827

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come of gun-control laws and efforts like "Buy Back The Hill?" And one last :Lq l LETTERS question: who bears the greater guilt, the man who attempts rape and com• To THE EDITOR mits a brutal murder, or the jury whose verdict merely slaps his wrist? This is one pastor who cannot support the government effort to disarm good citi• Pastor sees need zens - and still have a clear conscience before God or before the precious souls for armed citizens who attend his church. r.~ As a pastor who has influence over Calvary Baptist Church eternal souls who are seeking to repre• Carrboro sent the Lord Jesus Christ in this life /, and who will have to give account to Hirn in the day of judgment, I have struggled with the issues of gun control and self-defense. More and more fre• quently, church members have pro• posed questions regarding these issues, the intensity of their concerns being fueled in recent months by three well• publicized events: the murder of Kristin Lodge-Miller, the Seagroves home defense incident, and "Buy Back The Hill." These questions agd W.§C~• sions are no longer the enjoyable and abstract debates one would engage in while taking a university class in ethics; they are now the everyday discussions of neighboring housewives, parents and children, and practically everyone who resides in our community. Very often the sides taken in these discussions follow the political, philo• sophical lines of liberal versus conserv• ative. It could probably be generally summarized that in reference to the Seagroves case and "Buy Back The Hill," that conservatives emphasize gun ownership and self-defense while liberals emphasize the inherent danger of deadly weapons in anyone's hands and putting the burden of protection on the shoulders of government. But now we have been shocked by the decision rendered in the Lodge• Miller verdict. An innocent young woman is attacked and shot 5 times, once in the back of the head while lying bleeding on the ground. This is not the case to apply the command to "turn the other cheek." It is time for justice to prevail. The Bible tells us that govern• ment "beareth not the sword in vain; for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil." Yet, in the wake of the Lodge• Miller verdict, liberal and conservative, male and female, black and white are left with the stunning realization that there has been a terrible miscarriage of justice. In a few short years, after being seasoned by prison life, this same man will once again have the right to live in our community. And regardless of the laws, he will be able to purchase a gun somewhere. It is not hard to understand why Americans have begun to buy guns at an unprecedented rate, a large number being women and others who never considered gun ownership before. No doubt, some of those guns, though bought with a good purpose in mind, will end up being involved in acci• dents. That being the case and keeping the Lodge-Miller verdict in mind, one wonders why money is not being raised to offer firearms instruction to the people of our community. We have seen that Mace does not work and may even supply the criminal with an excuse in court for his actions. We have also come to the frightening realization that the legal system offers little protec• tion from those who engage in criminal conduct. Should a pastor, desiring to be faith• ful to his calling, encourage his people to get rid of their only means of self• defense? Christians are to live by faith. But is that faith to be placed in the pro• tection offered by our government, in the supposed goodness of society at large, or in God who commands us to provide for the protection of our fami• lies? What is the real purpose or out- r> CUPPING SERVICE 1115 HILLSBORO RALEIGH, NC 27603 TEL. (919) 833-2079

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BY PATRICK O'NEILL While Webb's views on salvation may be Wlu1e he doesn't have a personal need for standard fare for many Christians, it's his automatic weapons,. Webb believes the citi• Correspondent positions on specific social issues that distin- zenry must have weapons. equivalent to \ CARRBORO - There's only one way to guish Webb and the Calvary congregation those- of the government's so they can be heaven. All other paths lead to hell. from the Carrboro-Chapel Hill mainstream. ready ta turn back the totalitarian tide, \ That's the basic Biblical teaching that the Webb says homosexuality is "rightly "If the people have muzzle-loaders and the _Rev Gary Coleman Webb teaches his flock called perversion." government has automatic weapons, they're at the fundamentalist Calvary Baptist In a paper titled, "Homosexuality: Telling going to crush you like they did in Waco," Church located at 1000 W. Main St. the Truth," Webb wrote, "Clearly the homo- said Webb, who said he· will go to jail before In an area known for its left-of-center poli• sexual element will bring American society obeying: a gun-contra~ Jaw in Carrboro. tics and theology, Ward's congregation is an into new levels of crime and danger. ... We When asked about the· number of guns he oddity. The political equivalent would be believe their unnatural, unsanitary, and has, Web& said," All that! need." Jesse Helms taking up residence in Chapel immoral sexual behavior is a telling portrait Webb said his views, while usually respect• Hill and opening a Senate office. of their whole lifestyle. That lifestyle is the ed by his Presbyterian family members, have, An avowed conservative, Webb's theolog• danger to our society." at times, brought him into conflict with family ical-political bent is not as easy to categorize Last May, Webb and several other Calvary members. But, for the most part, "Webb fami• as Helms'. Church deacons signed a letter to the ly unity is strong .." he said, "There have been A native of Graham, Webb, 37, was the Carrboro Board of Aldermen opposing giving conflicts, and at times they've been more pro• second son of George T. and Betty M. Webb. legal status to unmarried domestic partners. found than others," said Webb,whose parents Like his two brothers, Webb was a stand-out He opposes giving women leadership roles have come to hear him preach at Calvary. athlete, first at Graham High School, then at in ministry. He's pro capital punishment - A boll¬ ''of contention has been Webb's Southern Alamance High School. He ran to the point of supporting laws that would refusal to preach at the home churches of his track, put the shot, wrestled and played foot• call for the execution of abortion doctors. family members. ball and basketball. He also supports citizen's rights to bear 'Tm not ecumenical," Webb said. UI£ a The three Webb brothers all played college arms, a right Webb said is crucial to keeping church does not preach and teach the Bible, football on scholarships. Gary was a strong the government in check. He notes that I'm not going to cooperate with them, That safety at Clemson University from 1975 to when totaiitarianism rose up in Germany has been a source e conflict," 1979 and played in two Gator Bowls. and the former USSR, one of the first things Calvary is not "a good-works" church, Webb graduated with honors as the governments did was to "disarm their Webb says, a reference to the Bible verse that Clemson's top student in administrative citizens so they can control the people." says good works won't get ai person to Heaven.. Webb sees a move toward totalitarianism Webb and his wife,. Kathie Mosier Webb, management, and went on to earn a master THE REV. GARY WEBB of divinity and doctor of ministries degrees forming in the U.S. He cites the case of David have three children: Jacquelyn, 7; Spurgeon, from Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C Koresh, whose Branch Davidian compound 6; and Georgia, 2- Webb moved to Carrboro to serve as assis• door evangelical campaigns. . in Waco, Texas, was destroyed and scores While Webbsavs the Bible teaches that the tant pastor at Calvary under its former pas• About 60 people attend Sunday morning killed following a raid by federal agents. man is the head-of the home, he said hus- tor, the Rev. Rudolph Hardee. Webb was services, and 40 attend Sunday night ser• "We're having more and more regulation bands must lead with love just as Jesus did. called as pastor in 1984. vices, Webb said. that take away our rights," Webb said, "and In pre-marital counseling, Webb tells cou• When his family moved about five miles Webb cites the third chapterofJohn's Gospel government mandates restricting freedom of ples to plan a budget based on the man's between his junior and senior years, Webb as illustrating the Bible's key to salvation. speech and religion." income only and that the woman should had to change schools. He played his final The oft-quoted John 3:16 states: "For God Webb says it's likely that religious groups, keep the home and care for the children. A prep football season 'at Graham's arch-rival so loved the world that He gave His only such as fundamentalists, will be targeted by part-time job is OK while the children are in Southern Alamance. Webb played a key role begotten son and whoever believes in Him totalitarian forces, forces Webb expect to school, Webb said, but the family is the most in Southern Alamance's victory over Graham. should not perish, but have eternal life." contend with in his lifetime. important institution -even more important "We thrashed them, and I scored three John 3:7 states: "You must be born again." "I believe, as an American citizen, there than the church - and should be nurtured. touchdowns," Webb said. Said Webb: "John 3:16 sums up the basic will be a time for me to take up arms and Webb says the Bible supports measured But, unlike football where one can atone · message of the scriptures. The Bible is about fight the state," Webb said. corporal punishment, but the spanking must for past mistakes in the next game, Webb is salvation. From cover to cover is the unfold• However, Webb admits he's still strug- be administered in a Ioving way without dead serious about the eternal damnation ing plan of God's salvation. gling with how to balance his faith life and anger on the padded part of the body, and that awaits anyone who doesn't accept Jesus "I believe in it," he said. "I believe it's the his rights as a citizen. should be followed by a hug and other forms Christ as Lord and Savior in this lifetime. only thing that can save men's souls. Even if "Christ was not a pacifist, but he was not a of encouragement of the child. "I believe that a person's soul and where they say they're a Christian and they aren't person who believed in taking up arms to Gardening, walking and target-shooting they spend eternity is the most important born again, there's really no hope for them. advance his cause," Webb said. '1 don't ever with his guns are among the leisure activities thing in life," said Webb, whose small local A person born without Christ is eternally want my perceived rights as an American to Webb enjoys, ~mt his fa:'orite activity is play- congregation has grown thanks to door-to- lost." hinder my responsibilities as a Christian." ~g with his kids, he said. {/ -~ - . -·------CLIPPING SERVICE 1115 HILLSBORO RALEIGH, NC 27603 TEL (919) 833-2079 NEWSPAPER CHAPEi. HILL, N. C CIR: 6,827 tt.e-1 ~y c. u;#

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Bv PATRICK O'NEILL > world. I'm not naive enough to say that That's where she encountered evil as an Correspondent evil is just an illusion. It's much more pro- external force. CHAPEL HILL - Fifty years ago, on found than that." "In that courtroom, I felt like I encoun- April 30, 1945, German dictator Ad~lf Harvin said chemical addictions and tered that kind of spiritual evil, something Hitler entered an underground bunker in other compulsive addictions have qualities that is the antithesi~ of God," Lee s.aid. Berlin, put a revolver to his head and com• similar to evil forces because they take "There was somethmg truly possess10n• mitted his final act of murder. over people's lives and control them, but, laden about Ted Bundy ... Considered the 20th century's epitome he said, the more obvious manifestations "That's the closest I've come to encoun• of evil, Hitler blurred the lines separating of evil are common things such as greed, tering the demonic in a concrete way," she his goals from God's will. . dishonesty, being self-absorbed and judg- said. "I am now convinced that I am actmg as ing others. Although she doesn't believe in capital the agent of our Creator by fighting off the The Rev. Gary C. Webb, pastor of punishment, Lee said she felt a sense of Jews," Hitler wrote in his book. "Mein Carrboro' s Calvary Baptist Church, relief when Bundy was executed. Kampf" (My Struggle). "I am domg the believes that evil does manifest itself as an Lee believes that for evil to succeed, it Lord's work." external force, a force that can only be usually needs a cooperative force, such as Later, in a 1926 Yuletide speech ~itler overwhelmed by the power of God. complacency. said, "Christ was the greatest early fighter "As far as the Bible's concerned, evil is "Hitler for me has only as much power in the battle against the world enemy, the anything contrary to the will of God," as people allowed him to have," Lee said. Jews .... The work that Christ started but Webb said. "That we would call sin." "It's far easier to demonize somebody than could not finish, I, Adolf Hitler, will con- Webb said the Bible notes two sources of it is to take responsibility for turning our elude." evil, spiritual beings or demons who are power over to th~m." . . While Hitler is considered the personifi• fallen angels and the influence of evil in To truly eradicate evil, human bemgs cation of evil in this day and age, religious Ribbon around tree at N.C. Hillel sym• our own natures. Each of us has inherited a must recognize their interdependence or scholars debate whether Hitler's actions or sinful nature from Adam, Webb said, a ref- the evil will return in another, often similar bolizes Holocaust Remembrance Day, erence to the Adam and Eve story in the form. those of others who commit horrific acts of which was ednesday. violence, such as the recent Oklahoma City took of Genesis. Lee said that like the present genocide in bombing, are controlled by some external world's passive cooperation with evil. While evil forces may exist in different Bosnia, which he believes has similarities evil force, such as the devil, or are merely The Holocaust has resulted in a sort of 11th demonic forms, Webb says they do play to Nazi Germany, the evil of what hap• the acts of our own sinful natures. commandment for the world, Koren said. active roles in our lives. pened in Oklahoma City won't end simply In the New Testament, Jesus had fre• "Thou shalt not stand idly by," Koren ''They do affect the ways that we think," because we execute the killers. Injustice, quent encounters with people who were said. "That is the Jewish theological posi• Webb said. "They do put thoughts in our racism, poverty and many other institu• possessed by demons. tion that says, never again." minds. Satan is the most powerful of the tional evils are part of the bigger picture of Mark 5:2-17,tells of Jesus' encounter with The Rev. David L. Harvin, minister of the evil spiritual beings, but he has no power who we are. a man known as Mob or Legion because he Carrboro United Methodist Church, said over God." We live in "a culture of narcissism," Lee is possessed by many demons. When [esus modern thinkers have said "the great evil Webb agrees that addictions have evil said. drives out the evil spirits they enter a herd of Hitler" was his pretending to be God. characteristics. Evil comes out of "radical powerless- of pigs and immediately the herd plunges Despite the fact that Germany had a larl?e "It' s more than just a physical reaction," ness," Lee said. "God kicked the fallen off a cliff into a lake and drowns. Christian population, the church m Webb said. "Demons can cause a person to angel out of heaven, an angel trying to But, while those stories are dramatic Germany capitulated to the Nazis, Harvin become enslaved in sin, drugs, sex, steal- assume power. Look at Hitler, it's all about Biblical accounts of evil as an external force, said. ing, killing. I believe that spiritual beings power. Oklahoma City is about power. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "The church leaders signed an allegiance play a major role in that." Jesus' execution is about power." Rabbi Andrew R. Koren refuses to blame to Hitler. Evil became a kind of mania While she's not big on the idea of evil as The Rev. Robert C. Flynn, pastor of the Holocaust on an external evil force. attached to power that says I don't need an external force, the Rev. Tambria E. Orange United Methodist Church said, While most Jews see the Holocaust as "a God, 'I can determine my own destiny,' " "Tammy" Lee, associate for parish min- "evil becomes a reality when we think situation of almost absolute evil on earth," he said. "Hitler was evil and the church istry at Chapel of the Cross Episcopal about n?thing but ourselves. 1. do be~i~vein Koren says perhaps thousands of years of capitulating was evil." . Church, believes she had an encounter the reality of Satan, but Satan is a spmt that anti-Semitism set the stage for what hap• Harvin notes that church spires were vis• with an evil force. lives through human decision." pened in Nazi Germany. ible to people being held in Auschwitz. As a student at Florida State University, Flynn said he doesn't buy the line popu- "This was human," Koren said. ''This The prisoners could hear the church bells Lee lived at the Chi Omega sorority house larized by Flip Wilson, ''The devil made was something that was created, that was toll. where, in January of 1978, about a year me do it." maybe thousands of years in the making." Harvin says he does not preach of evil as before she moved in, serial killer Ted ''We have to have someone else to blame While some Jews have blamed them• an external force. There is "a force for good ]3undy had killed two of her sorority sis- it on," Flynn said. "Evil is a result of our selves or God for the Holocaust, the vast in the world which I call God and Jesus ters. own fallen nature. Adam and Eve falling majority of Jews feel the Holocaust was the and the Trinity," Harvin said. "And I One day Lee attended part of Bundy's from obedience from God. We're not pup• result of human evil, compounded by a believe there is also a force for evil in the murder trial in a Tallahassee courtroom. pets."