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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JULY 5, 1985
traced the evangelization of the Slavs in regions that are now
Poland, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia
and the Soviet Union. He said the whole church "professes her
spiritual solidarity" with the Slavic nations.
John Paul said the two saints--brothers who were born in the
Byzantine city now called Salonika in Greece--were "the connect
ing links or spiritual bridge between the Eastern and Western
traditions, which both come together in the one great tradition
of the universal church•••• Not� today does there exist any
other way of overcoming tensfons and repairing the divisions and
antagonism both in Europe and in the world which threaten to
cause a frightful destruction of lives and values," he wrote.
Pornographic Rock
The following is a shocking article showing just how bad rock music is be
coming. Titled "Stop Pornographic Rock," it was written in the May 6, 1985
issue of NEWSWEEK by a guest columnist, Kandy Stroud.
Mrs. Stroud is a
free-lance journalist who also sings with the Washington D.C. Choral Arts
Society. (Mr. David Hulme referred to this article in his sermon on liber
alism that was circulated to the churches. Because of the explicit nature
of some of the quoted material, I caution you, as did Mr. Hulme, in how you
handle this information publicly.)
My 15-year-old daughter unwittingly alerted me to the increasing
ly explicit nature of rock music. "You've got to hear this,
Mom!" she insisted one afternoon, fast-forwarding Prince's "Pur
ple R.
ain" to the song "Darling Nikk_i." "But don't listen to the
words," she added, an instant tip-off to pay attention. The beat
was hard and pulsating, the music burlesque in feeling, as
Prince, who has sold more than 9 million copies of "Purple Rain,"
began:
"I knew a girl named Nikki; I guess u could say she was a sex
fiend; I met her in a hotel lobby; masturbating with a magazine."
Unabashedly sexual lyrics like these, augmented by orgasmic moans
and howls, compose the musical diet millions of children are now
being fed at concerts, on albums, on radio and MTV. Rock sta
tions may play Sheena Easton's latest hit, "Sugar Walls," as many
as a dozen times a day. "I hate this song," my 13-year-old, rock
crazed son muttered on the way from school one day as he inad
vertently tuned in Easton' s lewd and crude song about genital
arousal. My own Mr. Cool was visibly embarrassed. Embarrassed?
I almost drove off the road••••
Rock••• [did not take] an erotic turn overnight. Elvis Presley
was bumping and grinding his way through "Heartbreak Hotel" 30
years ago. "I Can't Get No Satisfaction," by the Rolling Stones,
was no innocent ditty.
But innuendo has given way to the
overt••••
"Feels so good inside," squeals Madonna on her triple-platinum
album, "Like a Virgin." Rock's latest "it" girl hardly touts
virginal innocence, as one can gather from her gyrations and un
dulations on Friday-night video shows. ."Relax when you want to
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