9. These proposals visionary? This is the way life was lived in the U.S. 60 years ago. Henry Ratliff
* October 6, 1980
Sister/Bro. Americans--
Jesus
Capital punishment is "life for life." He opposes prayer in public schools, violates his "pray to your father in secret," evolution is growth--Jesus is growth, he associates with lesbian and homosexual--always is friend to the outcast and rejected, is for ERA--elevates even the woman taken in adultery, prince of peace--he is not for another round in the thermonuclear race to Armageddon, favors merciful abortion to prevent a tide of the unwanted from filling welfare rolls, prison cells and death rows to the electric chair. To right wing evangelicals Jesus says, "You call me Lord but do not the things I command you." Henry Ratliff
* Oct. 28, 1980
Sister/Bro. Americans--
It takes 10 years (1980-90) to rebuild New York City's subway into the safest, fastest, cleanest and most modern in the world. Labor, management, skills, materials, necessity, money from Washington's printing presses are right now available. This giant project triggers rebuilding urban America. Vastly increases employment as well as revenues for government and private industry. The MX missile for 1980-90 at 50 to 100 billion dollars destroys Nevada-Utah and threatens human survival. Rebuilding NYC subway blesses humankind. Henry Ratliff
* November 6, 1980
Sister/Bro. Americans--
Ronald Reagan says "the Bible is against lesbianism/homosexuality; the Bible's good enough for me." "There you go again," Ronald Reagan. Nowhere in the 4 Gospels does Jesus as much as mention lesbianism/homosexuality. He does say, "Judge not that you be not judged." Henry Ratliff
* Nov. 6, 1980
Sister/Bro. Americans--
Jerry Falwell, right wing evangelical preacher, Lynchburg Virginia, distorts Scripture. The youthful Jesus, dying on a cruel Roman cross, says of those killing him, "Father, forgive them." Is that a basis for "justified capital punishment?" Henry Ratliff
* Nov. 8, 1980
Sister/Bro. Americans--
Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945 are limited nuclear war. It is limited because the United States at the time has only a few atom bombs. Also, it has a monopoly. Neither condition any longer persists. Americans need to reread John Hersey's Hiroshima. Anyone who calls for limited nuclear war is a madman. He must be seized and placed under heavy guard in a ward for the criminally insane. Henry Ratliff