Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE Poor Klare My attention was recently called to your January 1992 issue and the article on Adele Simmons by Joshua Muravchik ("MacArthur's Millions," TAS, January 1992). Mr....
...There are more of us quiet conservative poofs than you could possibly imagine...
...Whether he is or not is unknown to me (though I trust that he is not...
...However, having cut his rhetorical teeth on the speeches and writings of Hitler, he now exhibits and lends to Oliver Stone certain oratorical flourishes of highly dubious parentage...
...might be surprised to learn that there are many poofters out there, this writer included, who actually work for a living, pay taxes (grudgingly), and vote Republican...
...Benjamin Shaw Instructor in Old Testament Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Greenville, South Carolina Standing Pat David Frum's analysis of the Buchanan and Bush double talk on budgets—and by plain implication, of similar dissembling by the sainted Reagan himself—was enjoyable ("Spending Time With Pat," TAS, April 1992...
...These people do not hang about in gay bars, do not jump in the sack with a different fella each night, and most assuredly do not hand out condoms on the campuses of Catholic universities...
...I'm curious as to where he derived that second conclusion...
...Bethell—that sexual preference is inherent in the individual and is not something that spreads through conversion or "recruitment," as if it were a doctrine...
...Both opposition to abortion and support for capital punishment are based on the idea that man is made in the image of God...
...Greg Lanning Vancouver, British Columbia Why They Must Die Thank you for P. J. O'Rourke's delightful skewering of liberals in his "Liberals: A Tribute" (TAS, April 1992...
...Had Mr...
...Muravchik's poor research does little to credit either his argument or your publication...
...in 1976 from the Union Institute, which was, as I said, a non-accredited institution...
...He claims that the demonstrations he saw looked like a recruitment drive...
...Had he done that, however, he would have had a much smaller stick with which to whack Pat Buchanan, which, considering the title of his opuscule, appears to have been its chief purpose...
...I don't need to be "cured" because there is nothing wrong with me...
...And how interesting that Oliver Stone, with such observable dictatorial tendencies as Collier pointed out, should gravitate to Marrs's tendentious and suspicious-minded book of all the hundreds available...
...One of them turned out to be gay...
...He should have said that the Union Institute has been accredited since 1985...
...I have one niggle, however...
...The paradox seen here by contemporary sensibilities is only illusory...
...Well, has Bush's "social" spending been too great or too small...
...Bethel...
...We have over 400 graduates in the field of higher education, including eight college presidents...
...Why is it worse for Buchanan and Bush to be, how you say, pragmatic, than for Reagan to have been so...
...Having known Jim Mans since we were children on Overton Avenue in Fort Worth, I can vouch for the fact that he was, well into his teens, an avid admirer of Adolf Hitler...
...Such views are perhaps not rare among those who also believe that Jews have horns or that Gypsies steal babies, but most people above a certain level of social experience have been exposed to the suggestion—I hope you're sitting down for this, Mr...
...We are proud of our graduates, and we are honored to have a scholar of such distinction as Mr...
...In fact, Sutherland's words came straight from Col...
...Using offhand, jocular comments he overheard as his only evidence, Mr...
...A devout Christian would sanction neither...
...The article impugns Mr...
...Klare, who received his "Ph.D...
...Michael Klare as director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies while she was president of Hampshire College...
...Gallery, the men's magazine, published an excellent summary of Prouty's thesis around 1974...
...Muravchik criticizes Ms...
...Klare among our alumni...
...He studied Hitler's speeches off phonograph records, and studied German to help his understanding, and also read and quoted from Mein Kampf, and collected all sorts of German and Nazi war memorabilia...
...The fact that Crossfire uses Hitler's "big lie" quote as an epigram is but one sign of (at least) vestigial interest in Hitler's thought...
...In other words, all homicide is attempted deicide...
...In speaking of abortion and capital punishment, he says, "A callous pragmatist might favor abortion and capital punishment...
...Or if, as the tone of the article would rather suggest, he was making a serious warning, then such dangerous, hateful fictions have no place in what is otherwise a magazine of quality...
...I go to church regularly, confess my sins, and while it troubles me that homosexual behavior goes against Scripture, so does divorce, working on the Sabbath, and harboring angry thoughts...
...The Mosaic legislation of Exodus-Deuteronomy (which lists eighteen capital crimes) is only of secondary significance in the formulation of the argument...
...John Tallmadge Dean of the Graduate School The Union Institute Cincinnati, Ohio Joshua Muravchik replies: Given the free-form nature of the Union Institute, it is understandable that Dean Tallmadge does not know how to evaluate homework...
...Bethell informs us that homosexuals "are obliged to perpetuate themselves by reeducation rather than reproduction, and it is the whole of society they wish to re-educate...
...So please lighten up, Tom...
...L. Fletcher Prouty, former Focal Point officer between the Pentagon and the CIA and author of The Secret Team (Prentice Hall, 1973, and Ballantine Books, 1974...
...Muravchik done his homework, he would have discovered that the Union Institute is fully accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools...
...Klare's scholarship and credentials on the grounds that he graduated from the Union Institute, which is described as a non-accredited institution...
...Nor how to present information accurately...
...Rogue's Gallery Having pegged Oliver Stone as a cryptofascist in his April TAS essay ("011ie fiber Alles") Peter Collier should be interested in a bit of information I have lately been sharing with friends and acquaintances...
...As he must finally conclude, the latter feature of political life carries everything before it...
...The trouble is that Buchanan and Bush first are derided for trying to buy votes out of the pub(continued on page 61) 10 The American Spectator June 1992 CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 10) lic purse, after which Bush at least is derided for allegedly failing to understand that vote-buying is good politics...
...Yet, in the end Frum wanders into double talk of his own via the bracing comeuppance he gives Middle America...
...Simmons for her appointment of Dr...
...Three of the boys are resolutely straight...
...Bethell can rest assured that gays are not out to seduce or "re-educate" his children, who, realistically, probably have more to fear from (continued on page 63) CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 61) heterosexual perverts in our society...
...A murderous assault on a human being (in the womb or out of it) is an assault on the image of God, thus directly an assault on God Himself...
...Which is it...
...If the comments in Mr...
...This is not to say that Jim Marrs is active in neo-Nazi politics...
...John D. King Austin, Texas Hold Your Trojan Horses One does not have to be one of the "liberals" parodied with varying degrees of insight and wit in your magazine—and I most certainly am not—or even to agree with many extremist gay activists—which, on a range of issues, I do not—to have been disturbed by the paranoid hallucinations to which Tom Bethell gave voice in his report on gay demonstrators in San Francisco ("Trojan Army," TAS, April 1992...
...Collier ignores it at his peril...
...I am withholding my name because it is nobody's damn business how I live my private life...
...For most of the Christian history, Christian ethicists have taken the position that O'Rourke labels that of a callous pragmatist...
...This has little bearing on Mr...
...The extremity of the crime, then, requires the sacrifice of the life of the life-taker...
...Gays don't go on "recruitment drives" to perpetuate themselves—partly because they don't have to...
...I say "turned out" because that is exactly how it was: I was treated no differently from the other brothers, was neither molested nor abused, and was never encouraged to "go gay" by any homosexual...
...Prouty, not Jim Garrison, is Stone's main source for the actual events in Dealy Plaza...
...as eager to help itself to the wealth of others as the mangiest inner-city mugger...
...The foundations for this line of reasoning are (1) the aftermath of Cain's murder of Abel (Genesis 4), and (2) the prescription given to Noah after the flood (Genesis 9...
...Bethell's article were intended as a joke, it was a mean-spirited and unfunny one...
...Miles Hawthorne Granbury, Texas Peter Collier is demonstratively wrong in speculating that "[Donald] Sutherland's words might well have been scripted by the Christic Institute...
...I was raised in a suburban family of four boys and two loving parents (male and female) who were as devoted to their sons as they were to each other...
...It has often been reported that Stone based JFK on two books, Jim Garrison's On the Trail of the Assassins and Jim Marrs's Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy...
...I have never met a homosexual who thought that anyone could be made into a homosexual without being one already...
...Sony Tom, that's just the way it is...
...He who is free from sin...
...A long-time and loyal subscriber New York, New York The American Spectator June 1992 63...
...He would have discovered that our undergraduate requirements include proficiency in the field of study, excellence in scholarship, and demonstrated contributions to human knowledge...
...Frum should have made up his mind on those points before sitting down to type...
...His longings for the bygone glory days of Camelot, his dark suspicions of the powers that be, his calls to "take back" our country from the usurpers, all have an unsettling historical resonance...
...Yet ever since I was old enough to have amorous feelings, they have been toward men...
...Christopher F Roth Chicago, Illinois I wish the otherwise redoubtable Tom Bethell would understand that nitwits like those he writes about in the April 1992 TAS no more represent most homosexuals than folks who wear white sheets and lynch blacks represent mainstream conservatives...
Vol. 25 • June 1992 • No. 6
