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Protesters denounce Robison, briefing
PROTEST - From Metro Page
as abortion, the Equal Rights Amend-
ment, capital punishment, the draft,
labor legislation and homosexual
rights.
"They call themselves the 'Moral
Majority' and they are claiming to
represent 90 per cent of Americans,"
said Kay Artemus, a Dallas official of
the National Organization for Women
and a rally organizer. "There is no
way that they can be a majority.
"You don't have to be frightened
and think God will strike you down
... if you support equal rights, gay
rights, abortion, labor and education."
Phyllis Tucker, state coordinator
for NOW, ridiculed the political orien-
tation of the Reunion Arena gather-
ing."For Jesus, love meant equality,"
she said. "To deny equality in the
name of the gospel is nothing other
than a prostitution of the word of
God."
During the two-hour rally, speaker
after speaker condemned the political
views of the conference organizers,
and in particular of Robison, a Hurst
evangelist.
"The early career of James Robison
can be compared to the early career of
Benito Mussolini," said Paul Hunter,
a Dallas Quaker leader. Both Mussoli-
ni and Robison, he argued, warned
about "moral decay" and "military
weakness." Both, he argued, "learned,
mastered and manipulated" the news
media. "Just as Mussolini was danger-
ous, so is Robison," he said.
Dallas labor leadrano made references to the rise of
Nazi Germany and protested that mi-
norities were not represented at the
convention.
Don Baker, president of the Dallas
Gay Political Caucus, called the con-
ference organizers "right-wing fanat-
ics" and called their policies "simple
answers and rhetoric ... cloaked in
the word of God."
Charlotte Taft of the Texas Abor-
tion Rights Action League said the
meeting was dominated by "suspicion,
bigotry, small-mindedness and tyran-
ny."
Dwight Norris, president of the lo-
cal chapter of the American Feder-
ation of State, County and Municipal
Employes, said the conference "repre-
sents a tremendous challenge to the
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