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.PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, July 18, 1980
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Recently, a brother of mine who is not in the Church visited
Ambassador College. He was very impressed by the College and the
people he met, as well as an audio-visual Bible study on the book
of Haggai. The impression made on him was so deep that he asked me
to pass on to you a contribution he was inspired to give.
--Arnoul J. (Chicago, IL)
Some time ago a group of senior citizens from the City College of
Long Beach was privileged to tour your college campus. We were
delighted with being assigned a student from Australia as our guide.
We wanted you to know that he did an excellent job. He was very
knowledgeable and his presentation was superb.
Thank you for giving us an opportunity to visit with you. We
compliment you on the caliber of students you have and we came away
with a greater knowledge of your fine College.
--E.S. (Long Beach, CA)
ON THE WORLD SCENE
WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ABETS FAMILY DOWNFALL: By the time the White Haus:
Conference on Families pulled into Los Angeles for its final stop last
week, it was already apparent that the effect of the conference would be
to further weaken the American family unit.
The two previous meetings of the touring "All in the Families" road show
had already endorsed abortion on demand, homosexual rights (in housing
especially), and the Equal Rights Amendment. Other resolutions seem to
have been taken right out of Ted Kennedy's campaign platform, namely
national health insurance and a guaranteed annual income of $13,000 a
year for a family of four. The Washington Post called the resolutions a
"laundry list of liberalism."
The White House Conference was created to fulfill a campaign promise
Jimmy Carter made to evangelicals to help the family as an institution.
However, in practice, the conference was taken over mostly by radical
activists--feminists, social workers, homosexuals, and liberal clergymen
--who were more concerned with pushing big government spending programs
and weakening the traditional family structure rather than helping it.
Thus, early on, the name was changed from "White House Conference on The
Family" to the "White House Conference on Families," the Adrninistration
yielding to pressure from the activists who wanted endorsement for their
perverse concepts of what constituted a family (such as a lesbian mother
now living with a lesbian lover, but rearing a child and using the
facilities of a federally-funded day-care center.)
Moreover, the delegate selection process was blatantly rigged. The
original rules allowed for a majority of the delegates to be popularly
elected, with the rest to be appointed by the state governors. But after
"pro-family" groups won the elections in one state, the rules were changec
to give the governors (who were subject to radical pressure) power to
appoint most of the delegates. Overall, governors ended up appointing
more
than
80%
of the conference delegates.
One interesting incident shows the anti-family attitude of those who
ran the conference. At the Baltimore meeting, personally opened by
President Carter, one of those in attendance was Dr. Joel Rosenshein, an