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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JULY 6, 1984
This letter is to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to the en
tire staff of The PLAIN TRUTH. I've never read a more enlight
ening, comprehensible and factual magazine as The PLAIN TRUTH.
If I may, I also want to thank Mr. Ronald D. Kelly for his superb
article on singles. Being a single Christian, as I am, is some
what difficult but not impossible, as some would think.
His
article helped me to really understand and cope with this "minor
detail" as a Christian.
ON THE WORLD SCENE
P.S. (New Orleans, LA)
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
WOMEN'S GROUPS PRESSURE MONDALE; JACKSON'S
"MORAL OFFENSIVE" ROLLS ON
Walter Mondale, apparent presidential candidate of the Democratic party,
has become a victim of his own brand of politics: securing the allegiance of
special interest groups. Now he is under almost relentless pressure from
women's activist organizations such as NOW (National Organization for
Women) to select a woman for the vice presidential slot on the Democratic
ticket. Some of NOW's most radical members are threatening a floor fight at
the mid-July Democratic convention in San Francisco if he hasn't selected a
female running partner by then.
In addition to the two women Mondale has invited to his home for interviews
(Representative Geraldine Ferraro of New York and San Francisco Mayor Diane
Feinstein), he has interviewed two blacks for the job, plus one Latino. At
least one more woman is to come--all of this in Mondale's attempt, he says,
to "open up the selection process."
Of the two women mentioned above, Ms. Ferraro (who retained her maiden name
when she married her businessman husband John Zaccaro) has had more
political experience. A protege of House Speaker "Tip" O'Neill, she has
worked hard to become "one of the boys" in the House. Thrice-married Mayor
Feinstein, on the other hand, gets high marks for surviving the political
complexities of San Francisco (where homosexuals comprise one-third of the
voters). She is said to want the vice presidential candidacy so bad that
"she can taste it."
Polls vary widely as to what the impact of a woman
on
the ticket would have.
Would it close the so-called "gender gap" in the Democrats' favor--or would
it conversely cause a massive hemorrhage of white male votes in key
southern "redneck" states into the Republican party? (It's no coincidence
that President Reagan, on July 4, visited a famous stock car
race--a very
popular southern blue-collar form of entertainment.) Syndicated columnist
Davids. Broder, writing in the July 3 LOS ANGELES TIMES, seems to think
that Mr. Mondale may lose more than he gains should he succumb to feminist
lobbying:
Consider just one measure of the gap between political reality
and the priorities that Mondale has been forced to adopt in order
to appease the most vocal forces inside his own party.
The
latest Gallup poll showed Mondale trailing Reagan by 30 points
among male voters and by 29 points among whites. But of the first
seven people whom he interviewed for the vice presidency, only