TELEVANGELIST SUMMARIES September 1989 PAT ROBERTSON Abortion . ............ .100-101, 103-106 Bark, Robert ••. ...... 107 Christian activism ••••••••• ... .101 Education ••••••••••••. ..109 Legal Services Corporation •• . ..102-103 National Endowment for the Arts ••• •••••• 96, 109 New Age • ••••••••••••••••••. ..97-99 Operation Rescue •.••••••••• . • 99-100 Presidential appointments •• ..107-108 Religious freedom. • ••• 104-105 Sex education •••••• . ...••••.•••.. 96-97 JERRY FALWELL Abortion ••••••• . ..•••.• . 111 Homosexuality. .. ..110-111 Pornography •••• ••••• 111 JAMES KENNEDY Education ••••••••••• .. .111-112 Planned Parenthood •••••••••• ..112-113 700 Club 9-5-89 Robertson mentioned his trip to Bavaria and his visit to Dachau. He promised to bring in his pictures of holocaust victims who have suffered the same treatment as participants in Operation Rescue. News segment -Lebanese criticism of U.S. -Summit of non-aligned nations -Drugs in the workplace Segment on Helms Amendment for arts funding including footage of Don Wildmon holding up pictures from the Maplethorpe exhibit. Pat and Sheila complain about any funding of art not to mention obscene art. Robertson encourages people to call their congressman. Segment on Gorbachev's problems in Russia. Interview with Dr. Kent Hill, Exec. Dir. of the Institute on Religion and Democracy and author of The Puzzle of the Soviet Church. Interview with Daryl Green of the Washington Redskins. Report on the construction of the new conference center at CBN. Interview with boxer Earnie Shavers. 700 Club 9-6-89 News segments: Drugs and President Bush's address U.S. evacuation of Beirut Military shake-up in Poland Special segment: Sex Education Several statements taken from the Humanist Manifesto II to show how it encourages sexual permissiveness. Guests include Onalee McGraw of the Education Guidance Institute and Diane Berger, Ph.D candidate at the University of PA Human Sexuality Program. Discusses statistics of adults favoring sex education and the effectiveness of contraceptive-based sex education vs abstinence­ based sex education. Interview with Leanna Benn, Exec. Dir. and cofounder of Teen Aid, Inc. an abstinence-based curriculum. Leanna Benn VOLUME 10, Issue 9 96 1 September 1989 "You talk about moral values no matter what you say. It's which set of moral values you're tal king about. You can talk about moral values without tal king about religion and we had a Supreme Court decision to show that. The Teen Aid program is for the public schools and we talk very much about the [unintelligible] principle, abstinence prior to marriage, we talk about respecting elders; we talk about the fruits of the spirit but we use different terminology. All those things are there." Benn continued with examples of inappropriate sex ed. Pat Robertson " ... If you're not horrified you ought to be and yet 85% of the people said let's teach our kids this. Do you want your fifth grader learning that kind of stuff? Do you want your little girl who's in the kindergarten to start learning about some of these bizarre things and have homosexuals play out role models in the second and third and fourth and fifth grades or in the high school? Do you want that kind of stuff? Is that what you want your children to be taught? Well, if you want it then sit back a n d e n j o y i t b e c a u s e t h a t ' s wh a t yo u ' r e g o i n g to h a v e . I f y o u don't want it you ought to get hold of your congressman or your legislators ... and your school superintendents and say enough of this garbage." Robertson clarified an earlier statement about Barney Frank's involvement with a teenager. Testimony of teenager involved in sex, drugs, etc. Segment on public school teacher's religious beliefs and how she brings them to school. Has used Robertson's video "America, You're Too Young to Die" in class. 700 Club 9-11-89 News Segment --East German refugees in Hungary --Yeltsin visit to U.S. --Beirut fighting Special segment- first of two part story on the New Age Movement. Definition of New Age Movement. Comparison to Nazism. Robertson follows through with a discussion of the occult roots of Nazism. Interview with Tal Brooke, author of When the World Will Be as One. Explanation of how New Age equals H1ndu1sm. On Hinduism and the global aspects of the New Age Movement: VOLUME 10, Issue 9 97 1 September 1989 Pat Robertson 11 It would be one thing to say well its a bunch of kooks out there, staring at the sun and going through their little mantras ... there's something else though when we look at a possible global conspiracy to unite all mankind under this type of thing ... Brooke explains the economic and political roots of the global movement. In response to a question about how Christians can combat the New Age Movement, both Brooke and Robertson talked about Christian activism and combatting "enemies .. such as the ACLU, Dewey and the humanists, etc. Mentioned training Christian lawyers and James Dobson's work with the family. Brooke was asked how to combat New Age Movement in public education and basically he said that parents should put their children in Christian schools or home schools. Discussion of the New Age Movement in business particularly personnel training programs. Testimony of woman involved in New Age and occult. Robertson concludes first part of broadcast with the following comment: Pat Robertson "Hinduism and many of the occult activities that come out of the orient are inspired by demons and demon worship ... There's this concept today that all religions are the same and all are good. That is not true. The worship of the devil is not good ... 700 Club 9-12-89 Special program on New Age continued. School classrooms are 11 Virtual laboratories of the occult ... News segment: --East German refugees --Middle East Peace Plan. Robertson interviews former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. Special Segment: New Age infiltration of society. Pat Robertson 11 Ladies and gentlemen, it's there. American green berets are learning New Age meditation techniques while school children are taken, if you can believe it, with taxpayers money, on psychic field trips through the use of what's called guided imagery ... VOLUME 10, Issue 9 98 1 September 1989 Dale Hurd's report points out the pervasiveness of New Age philosophies in all areas of life- business, White House, Congress, etc. Discusses use of New Age meditation and guided imagery in the classroom. Confessions of a teacher who used new age techniques in her classroom before she was born again. Robertson mentioned all the things involving Christianity that you cannot do in schools yet you can teach Hinduism. Interview with Paul McGuire, author, Evangelizing the New Age. Testimony of former Hippie/New Age couple. Pat traced the concept of individual as God to Eve and the Serpent. Pat lectures on the basic structure of man - spirit, soul or mind, body. Pat Robertson "What we're doing here in America and around the world is leading people to hell, in schools, in the military, in business. And if anybody is fooling with New Age ... ultimately, it will destroy you and you will be cast in a lake of fire reserved for the devil and his angels." Pat offers to sell his 2 part series on the New Age to churches, etc ... at cost. 700 CLUB 9-13-89 Operation Rescue Sheil a Walsh "It seems though Pat as if our rights are slowly being chipped a way." Pat Robertson "Not slowly, its galloping ... You know the first amendment of the U.S Constitution says Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise. We've got a case of police officers infiltrating churches and actually pretending to be born again so that they can get to infiltrate what churches are doing. This is shocking." Pat Robertson "Here in the U.S. a new group called Veterans Campaign for Life will be working with Operation Rescue. The group is a broad coalition of veterans which will focus on training grassroots political activists in taking part in Operation Rescue activities." Rev. Jim Evans, Assoc. Director, Veterans for Life "We didn't fight and die on foreign soil to defend our children and defend our nation only to stand in a nation today that burns its own flag and kills its own children. We fought for a better nation and we're going to come together to mourn the child killing in our land. We're going to come together to try to make VOLUME 10, Issue 9 99 1 September 1989 a difference in this nation in this needful hour." Birmingham, AL abortion lawsuits Pat Robertson "Threats of church closings, nonviolent protesters thrown in jail, you may think these activities typify life in the Soviet Union, or maybe Bulgaria or Communist China but all these actions and more are becoming hallmarks of the pro-abortion forces in the United States. And in Birmingham, AL, lawyers are taking churches to court for some legal firsts." Cynthia Glasser, CBN news correspondent proceeds with a news report that compares the anti-abortion events in Birmingham to Martin Luther King, Jr. • s civil rights activities in Birmingham in the '60's. John Whitehead, President, Rutherford Institute "It puts a tremendous chilling effect on the first amendment exercise of those freedoms and again, I think it will bother some people that knowing that not only are they going to get arrested for tresspass but that they're going to be liable to all kinds of damages and fines and injunctions and jail terms otherwise." Cynthia Glasser continues with her version of activities in Birmingham, including rescues, police infiltration of anti­ abortion groups, descriptions of the churches involved in activities and quotes from the abortion-rights groups' attorney.