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city with the American Con-
Stive Union, another right-
outfit.
Icond, Christian Voice, still a
Jling organization, is already
|ucing a mountain of
gion features and "public
x" programs for broadcast
tie nation's UHF stations
a ted to religious content
ally and Christian view-
specifically. (South
da's is WHFT. Ch. 45.) Also
 cable TV networks of such
lious matinee and nocturnal
as Pat Robertson, of the
Btian Broadcast Network's
[hub; and Jim Bakker, Praise
ord Network.
Surd, Christian Voice is cur-
preparing a Doomsday
irt for television showing on
various networks, which
eature Sen. Orrin G. Hatch
[Utah), a leading Mormon
ervative, and a member of
phristian Voice congressional
tory board, who declared
Dtly: "We think, we know
is a Christian nation, and
here to give voice to that
|t of view."
WILL be the aim of
\msday Report to emphasize
viewers the new organiza-
I's already extensive ties to
pranking legislators on Capitol
in addition to Sen. Hatch,
|se Republican senators:
Jim J. Humphrey, New
apshire; Roger W. Jepeen,
ra; James A. McClure, Idaho.
lo in the House of Represen-
Ives: presidential aspirant,
|ilip Crane, Illinois; Robert
man, California, a leading
^servative Roman Catholic;
I nine others.
In all, Christian Voice, only
pjntly organized by the Rev.
ert W. Grant, now claims a
|mbership of 100,000, including
ministers and priests
leading across some 40
nominations.
.'hai is more important are
30-odd-million "electronic
krch" television viewers to
sm Christian Voice is already
eading the gospel according to
|ant: "We believe that
erica, the last stronghold of
i Christian faith on this planet,
i come under increasing attack
|m Satan's forces in recent
RANT'S immediate enemies
I Strauss Defends
U.S. Rebuff
OfPLO
By JTA Wire Services
INEW YORK Robert
auss, President Carter's
bI Ambassador for Middle
st negotiations, defended the
uted States policy of not
I'kmg to the Palestine
tion Organization, but
he is seeking to bring
simians into the peace
Pn n interview on CBS-TV's
'Jhe Nation, Strauss also
-d that the Administration's
e*st policy ia in "disarray,"
wnced he will be deeply
Mved in the Lebanese
tion, and called for a cooling
Black-Jewish tension in the
' 1 of the resignation of
ew Young as Ambassador
|Ue United Nations.
Irauss' comments on the PLO
fter he was asked about
(" statement in his
hctory address to the UN
urity Council last Friday that
||M ridiculous" not to talk to
rU> Strauss said the U.S.
i cant talk with people who
F"* U) ai'tept the existence of
 people."
include separation of church and
state. He aims to put God and
prayer back into the public school
system, and he sees this as s
struggle against his belief that
"Everywhere we turn, Christian
values are assaulted and are in
retreat. As Christians, we are not
going to take it anymore."
But Grant's enemies also
include rapprochement with the
Soviet Union as defined by SALT
II and U.S. policy in Zimbabwe
Rhodesia and in Taiwan, where
"Christian allies were thrown to
the wolves."
Many people, not necessarily
Christian and many of them self-
proclaimed liberals, would agree
with Grant if only on these last
two issues, but it is Grant's
deliberate exclusion of them from
his philosophical ranks if not
from the ranks of his faithful, and
his labeling of them as "Satan's
strategy" and as "the new gospel
of permissiveness," that make
him and the movement itself so
dangerous. In his intention only
to support conservative Christian
political candidates and to op-
pose liberals, he has thrown down
an unmistakable gauntlet.
JUNE TOTTEN, of the Wash-
ington Interreligious Staff
Council, calls Christian Voice "a
distortion of religious values."
Speaking for the Council, which
is a coalition of Protestant,
Catholic and Jewish sentiment,
Totten declares that "It (Chris-
Voice have in mind for the Jews?
A mere sampling of Christian
Voice television fare makes sly
but constant reference to
Golgotha, the Pharisees, the
Sanhedrin and the "businessmen
of the Temple" as the "enemies of
tian Voice) seems to be a vary
politicized group (that) .
could lead to bigotry."
Totten is right. Christian Voice
aims to divide, not unite. Ideo-
logical architect Jarmin
separates American Christendom
between liberals, whom he labels
"a tiny minority" inconsistent
with the principles of Chris-
tianity, and the majority who are
"basically conservative."
What, indeed, must Christian
Jesus" and of Christianity today.
IF, as Grant and Jarmin
expect, the object of Christian
Voice is to put contemporary
American political issues into
"Christian language" for grass-
roots America, what it has in
mind for Jews should be crystal
clear.
We can not rely on the last
hope of a Sen. Mark Hatfield (R.,
Ore.) who declares that "It's very
presumptuous to say that any
organization is the bona fide
expression of Christians. It's a
simplistic notion. People are
going to have different opinions."
In Hatfield's reaction to
Christian Voice, there is the
impulse to believe that it will go
away.
The trouble is that it is sim-
plistic notions that seize the
troubled imaginations of men,
not complex ones. And in the
current year, Christian Voice has
| budgeted SI million for its
operations, including the pro-
duction of those simplistic
programs for the "electronic
church" television circuit. In
1980, it expects to spend $3
million. The message in thjs for
all of us interested in freeoom,
Jew and Christian, can not be
mistaken.
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