Today's Topics:
Exorcism in the News
Oral Sex May Save Your Life! (2 messages)
Government repeals science
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Message-ID: <9006141530.AA15666@juniper>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 90 11:30:53 edt
From: Eric Haines <eye!erich@wrath.cs.cornell.edu>
To: cornell!subgenius%media-lab.media.mit.edu@wrath.cs.cornell.edu
CC: erich@juniper
Subject: Exorcism in the News
>From the Secular Humanist Bulletin, V. 6, n. 2, May 1990:
The ancient rite of exorcism has attracted fresh attention lately--both inside
and outside of the Catholic hierarchy. Roman Catholic cardinal John O'Connor
of New York City touched off a firestorm of controversy when he remarked that
two New Yorkers had been declared possessed and subjected to exorcism. He also
stated that some heavy metal rock-and-roll music was literally satanic--a
common claim among fundamentalist ministers but surprising in the mouth of a
Catholic prelate. [I know, reruns. Read on, it gets better]
Exorcism fever runs high in Europe too. Rome got by for years with one
exorcist; now there are five. And in Turin, a city where the Vatican thinks
more than 40,000 worship the devil, the pope personally appointed six new
exorcists.
This couldn't come at a better time for Gardenia and Mary Ephraim, on trial for
racketeering and larceny in Hartford, Conn. The mother and daughter duo is
accused of collecting almost $250,000 from customers who paid them to exorcise
evil spirits--whose presence the Ephraims originally diagnosed.
The Ephraims' lawyer maintains that the customers got what they paid for.
William T. Gerace says that to prove his clients guilty, the state will have to
prove that evil spirits do not exist. "The Catholic Church recognizes ...
exorcism," Gerace told reporters. "Who are we to say that they (the Ephraims)
didn't get those demons exorcised?"
"Diabolism" featured in three recent criminal proceedings, two in West Virginia
and one in Florida. Two Wheeling, W. Va., men were bound over to the grand
jury on charges that they persuaded a troubled 15-year-old boy to have sex with
them by telling him that he "had the devil inside him" and offering to remove
it.
Meanwhile, Pace, Fla., evangelist Mary Nicholson was convicted of first-degree
murder in the starving and beating death of a four-year-old girl during a
prolonged exorcism. The primary prosecution witness was the mother of the
dead girl, who was already serving a prison sentence in connection with the
exorcism death.
--Eric Haines
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Message-ID: <9006131605.AA26238@xuucp.ch.apollo.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 90 11:02:06 EDT
From: marrs_w@apollo.com
To: SubGenius%MC.LCS.MIT.EDU@Mintaka.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Oral Sex May Save Your Life!
Fellatio Could Save a Million Lives, Report Says
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A report issued by Dr. Victor Hemont, a California sex reasercher, states
that fellatio could become the miracle cure for a number of male maladies,
including heart disease, ulcers, hypertension, and lung cancer.
"The oral stimulation of the penis has an enormous effect on many male health
problems," Dr. Hemont said in a telephone interview. "We are not yet certain how
this works. All we know is that all out test patients responded very positively
to fellatio treatment."
The report also claims that chemicals found in the saliva of teenage girls can
prolong male life indefinitely. A daily oral ejaculation would permit most males
to live "for centuries." Dr. Hemont has been censured by his fellow sexologists,
and police have searched his clinic numerous times for underage girls.
Dr. Hemont has taken the most severe criticism from female doctors, researchers
and women's rights advocates. "This is the ultimate in male chauvanism! It is not
enough to withhold our rights and suppress us, but now to claim that oral sex will
cure male diseases is the supreme insult!" Bunny Becker, a New York sexologist
screamed. The National Organization of Women has called for the revocation of Dr.
Hemont's license and an investigation of potential sexual improprieties at his
Malibu Clinic, Inc.
"What about cunnilingus?" a NOW spokewoman demanded in an open letter in the
Los Angeles Times criticizing Dr. Hemont. Dr. Hemont replied in a letter of his
own the following day. "Cunnilingus causes lip cancer," the letter read.
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Message-ID: <9006131540.AA26078@xuucp.ch.apollo.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 90 11:02:06 EDT
From: marrs_w@apollo.com
To: SubGenius%MC.LCS.MIT.EDU@Mintaka.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Oral Sex May Save Your Life!
Fellatio Could Save a Million Lives, Report Says
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A report issued by Dr. Victor Hemont, a California sex reasercher, states
that fellatio could become the miracle cure for a number of male maladies,
including heart disease, ulcers, hypertension, and lung cancer.
"The oral stimulation of the penis has an enormous effect on many male health
problems," Dr. Hemont said in a telephone interview. "We are not yet certain how
this works. All we know is that all out test patients responded very positively
to fellatio treatment."
The report also claims that chemicals found in the saliva of teenage girls can
prolong male life indefinitely. A daily oral ejaculation would permit most males
to live "for centuries." Dr. Hemont has been censured by his fellow sexologists,
and police have searched his clinic numerous times for underage girls.
Dr. Hemont has taken the most severe criticism from female doctors, researchers
and women's rights advocates. "This is the ultimate in male chauvanism! It is not
enough to withhold our rights and suppress us, but now to claim that oral sex will
cure male diseases is the supreme insult!" Bunny Becker, a New York sexologist
screamed. The National Organization of Women has called for the revocation of Dr.
Hemont's license and an investigation of potential sexual improprieties at his
Malibu Clinic, Inc.
"What about cunnilingus?" a NOW spokewoman demanded in an open letter in the
Los Angeles Times criticizing Dr. Hemont. Dr. Hemont replied in a letter of his
own the following day. "Cunnilingus causes lip cancer," the letter read.
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Message-ID: <900614-120514-7920@Xerox>
Date: 14 Jun 90 12:00:45 PDT (Thursday)
From: Michael_Travers.EuroPARC@xerox.com
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: Government repeals science
The really disturbing thing is that this sort of report isn't even
newsworthy any more. What, a high government official wants to turn back
the clock a couple of centuries? Yawn.
From: dougm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Holy War on Drugs!
Date: 13 Jun 90 04:25:41 GMT
This story is reprinted without permission from the Lawrence
Journal-World of Tuesday, June 12, 1990.
Drug problems blamed on Satan
by Don Lattin
San Francisco Chronicle
New Orleans -- To the shouts of Baptist preachers yelling "amen,"
federal drug czar William Bennett blamed Satan for the national
epidemic of drug abuse.
"It is a product of the Great Deceiver," Bennett told an
assembly of some 2,500 Southern Baptist pastors and other church
leaders on Monday.
"I have seen the face of evil," said Bennett, a Roman
Catholic. "If you don't think there is evil in the world today,
travel with me on the drug circuit."
"We need to bring to these people in need the god who heals."
Bennett, director of National Drug Control Policy for the Bush
administration, urged church leaders to take a greater role in drug
prevention, treatment and recovery.
"The drug problem is fundamentally a moral problem -- in the
end, a spiritual problem," said Bennett. "It is seeking meaning in a
place where no meaning can come."
Bennett said he has run into many people in drug treatment
centers who call crack cocaine "the devil."
"This has come up too often to be ignored," he said.
Telling of a mother who forced her teen-age daughter into
prostitution to buy drugs, and of parents who killed their baby by
blowing crack cocaine smoke down the infant's lungs, Bennett said: "If
that isn't the face of evil in our time, I don't know what is."
Calling for a moral revival and the "death of modernism,"
Bennett said it is time for the nation's public schools to start
talking about values.
Modernism consists of philosophies that attempt to redefine
Biblical and Christian teachings in the context of modern science,
historical research or other developments.
"We need to say in our public schools that there is a
difference between right and wrong," Bennett said.
After his luncheon address, Bennett praised two recent U.S.
Supreme Court decisions -- one allowing student Bible clubs in public
schools and another upholding the right of states to outlaw the use of
peyote in Native American religious rites.
Blasting "fastidious disdain" toward religion in the public
schools, Bennett said student Bible clubs will create "a positive
climate for teaching values in the educational system."
President Bush had been expected to address the Southern
Baptist Convention this week, but will not.
Bennett said the president did not tell him his reasons for
not attending.
Some conservative/fundamentalist Baptists objected to a visit
by the president after Bush invited gay rights leaders to a White
House ceremony in April to sign a national "hate crimes" bill.
"We have the dubious distinction of making everybody mad," a
White House official said.
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We can no longer call Bennett the Drug Czar. I think a better title
for him following the above speech would be The Drug Ayatollah
Bennett.
It looks like Bennett has more changes to make in this country
than the mere apprehension of a few druggies. For now let us remember
that the War on Drugs is now the Holy War on Drugs and is no longer
susceptible to scientific criticism.
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