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Guestbook Feedback
(Listings are in the order of date received)
Douglas Mitten,
Dean Ritterbusch ,
Gene Sproul ,
Eaton,
Joseph Friendly,
Kenneth Sanner,
James Sells,
James Polefko,
Kenneth Marion,
Rev. Jerald M. Stinson,
Mark Sharp,
Anne and Caroline Cookrose,
Camille Bradford,
Page Boinest,
George Gorman,
Todd Fiedler,
Matt Groggen,
Theadora Davitt-Cornyn,
Charlie Preston,
Walter Bell,
Jay Jacobson,
Steve Jenkins,
Jim Alford,
Sue Vire,
Kay Mul'e,
Louise White,
Wenda Zimmerman-Nelson,
Eleanor Self,
Kathryn Wigner,
Candace C. Corbani,
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October 28, 1998 ebcruser@jps.net title = From the Project Tocsin Guestbook name = Earl Cruser email = ebcruser@jps.net concerns = Seeking Friendship or Community item_description = A former minister, my thought has evolved to humanism. Although individual ethics are important, the challenge is how to help build a humane and rational world. Churches do provide social relationships and a sense of a community of common purpose. Severing ties with traditional, or even UU-type groups, as I have done can result in a sense of isolation. I am retired, travel part of the year, married to a fairly devout Episcopalian, and looking for kindred spirits to converse with. mailing list = yes Date: October 21, 1998
From: Douglas Mitten
Subject: From the Project Tocsin GuestbookConcerns: Other (use comments section)
Hi, Jerry. Saw the newpaper article about you in 10-21-98 Bee. Glad to see that you are still a thorn in their side. My thoughts often are on you and your hard work for all of us. Thank you. To catch you up, I came out to the BSA in January 1998 and on March 31, 1998 they expelled me. Have been working with Tom Shepard on a documentary on the issue. Still involved in Union politics and fighting the good fight. We will meet at a vigil some time and we can share a good old fashion hug. Getting ready to take the hand to hand training at the AIDS Foundation in November. Going to be working with youth who are HIV+ or that have parents that are HIV+. Still married, both boys are out of high school. Andrew is in Grad School at Sac State and Scot is a Sophmore at UCSD. Keep up the faith, you have many friends out here.
mailing list = yes
Date: September 15, 1998
From: Dean Ritterbusch
Subject: From the Project Tocsin GuestbookConcerns: Church/State Entanglement
Engineering Lab Electronics Technician interested in defending my own and other people's civil rights from Christian fundamentalists and state law.
Date: August 6, 1998
From: Eaton
Subject: Church/State EntanglementSouthern Baptist pastor, 26 years Navy (Chaplain), 23 years pastor-chaplain-Bible teacher at Oak Hill Academy, Baptist coed boarding school in Mouth of Wilson, VA. Disillusioned with SBC's fundamentalist regimes, now support Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Liberal free-thinker with five kids who run the gamut from conservative to free spirit. Pet peeves: Falwell, Robertson, Sekulow, Hinn, Kennedy, etc.
Date: August 6, 1998
From: Gene Sproul
Subject: Church/State EntanglementI'm a retired "neighborhood lawyer, and as log time atheist.
I,m primarily concerned the absolute CRUELTY visitd on so many of us by so many of the would be Christians.
The most egregious is their merciless stance on mercy killing. To stand by while someone is screaming in pain while dying, and worse to pevent another from releiving that agony by a mercy killing is bitterly cruel. Do unto others....????
To force a woman to go through a full pregnancy when she doen't want to is cruel...And if the "woman" is only ten years old it is unspeakably cruel. The event that marks the stqrt of a human being is its birth. Marking the start at any earlier event in the reproductive processs is arbitrary and useless (it is just as rational to mark the start at the first formation of the ovum. or when it leaves the ovary (when it has a life of its own, after all) or at any point prior to actual birth). Killing a fetus has never been illegal. And to excuse their cruelty by saying they are protecting the life of the unborn is invalid, at least. Their refusal to even discuss the subject shows just how arbitrary and cruel they really are,
The punishing of homosexuals for loving one ane anosther is self evidently cruel and needs no further elaboration by me.
Date: August 1, 1998
From:Joseph Friendly
Subject: From the Project Tocsin GuestbookConcerns: Freethought Activism
I produce public access cableTV shows in Manhattan, Truth For A Change, and Here and Now, both dealing with our need for a different government in order to enjoy real democracy. I have a surprisingly complete answer to the question of the 60's, "You only want to tear down society but what do you have to put in its place?" in the form of a plan for Peaceful, but Total Revolution that can be viewed and downloaded at http://www.pipeline.com/~friendly
Date: July 22, 1998
From:Kenneth Sanner
Subject: From the Project Tocsin GuestbookConcerns:Racial or Gender Issues
I am a 74-year-old, quasi-retired, psychologist who has been actively committed to liberal ideology for most of my life. This is despite the fact that I was reared in a dedicated evangelical family--my father and two of my brothers being ministers. My family has been understanding and we are close; in fact, they have accepted my being gay for many years, even though this has no doubt caused them some conflict in their religious teachings.
I guess my deep belief is that, as I remarked to my family when I was about fourteen years old, "Jesus was the first great sociologist." (It spoiled everyone's dinner, I recall.) It's interesting to my family, though, that I base my liberal (left-wing, to them) on what I was taught in that Christian home. I now identify myself to them as christian with a small "c." My "Bible" is what Jesus said, so the best book is "The Gospel According to Jesus."
Just read about you in "Church and State" that came today, written by Jerry Sloan. Good to know you're around. Any of you in the Peninsula area?
Date: July 16, 1998
From:James Sells
Subject: From the Project Tocsin GuestbookConcerns: Freethought Activism
I teach mathematics at a two-year college.
Date: July 15, 1998
From: James Polefko
Subject: From the Project Tocsin GuestbookConcerns: Church/State Entanglement
50 yr. old Caucasian male, married 23 yrs., 2 adult children
Retired on SS Disability - liver transplant recipient
Vietnam Veteran, 68-69
Member of :
ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, American Association for Nude Recreation, American Humanist Association, James Randi Educational Foundation, People For the American Way, South Shore Skeptics, Free Inquirers of Northeastern Ohio.Seriously worried that the Radical Right's ultimate agenda is to amend the Constitution and dilute the Bill of Rights.
Date: July 13, 1998
From: Kenneth Marion
Subject: From the Project Tocsin GuestbookConcerns: Church/State Entanglement
I was led to your site by July/August "Church & State" and intend to return to it often. Thanks
Date: June 29, 1998
From:Rev. Jerald M. Stinson
Subject:concerns = Church/State Entanglement
I am president of the San Diego Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. I have long advocated a rigid separation of church and state, and was heavily involved in resisting the religious right takeover of the Vista Public School System here in North San Diego County. I have read some of your materials on the prosocs e-mail network and would like to be directly on your mailing list. I am a United Church of Christ minister in Carlsbad, California.
Date: June 25, 1998
From:Mark Sharp
Subject: Project Tocsin Guest Bookconcerns: Christian Coalition
Date: June 24, 1998
From:ANNE AND CAROLINE COOKROSE
Subject: From the Project Tocsin GuestbookWe are a lesbian, christian couple who is terrified of the propaganda and hate being pumped out by the Religious Right.
Date: May 10, 1998
From:Camille Bradford
Subject: Project Tocsin Guest BookConcerns: Right-Wing Politics
Former member of Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the National Right to Work Committee. Strongly opposed involvement of the Committee staff in "religious right" activities and issues unrelated to the organization's sole purpose--opposition to compulsory unionism. Was voted off the Executive Committee in 1997 and the Board in 1998.
Date: April 30, 1998
From:Page Boinest
Subject: From the Project Tocsin GuestbookConcerns: Right-Wing Politics
Am doing research on Right related to Paycheck Protection issue nationally, and am fascinated how many of the CA playrs end up elsewhere -- and how many out-of-town players are in CA now.
Date: April 28, 1998
From:George Gorman
Subject: From the Project Tocsin GuestbookConcerns: Church/State Entanglement
Vietnam Vet, liberal democrat, member of Americans United for Separation of Church & State, ACLU, software engineer in aerospace industry, delegate from California to 1984 Democratic National Convention, personal friend of Bob Mulholland
Date: April 13, 1998
From: Todd A. Fiedler
Subject: From the Project Tocsin GuestbookConcerns: Church/State Entanglement
Keep up the work! It's good to see that not everyone has fallen for the hate-filled rhetoric put out by the right.
Date: April 11, 1998
From:Matt Grogger
Subject: From the Project Tocsin GuestbookConcerns: Church/State Entanglement
As a former 12 yr member of a local Board of Education, I am deeply concerned about the efforts of those who would support legislation to permit organized prayer in schools, those who insist on a fundamentalist curriculum including issues such as abstinence only sex education, teaching "creation science", and in general oppose the multicultural emphasis that should be placed on school activities. I am also on the Board of Directors of the MAINstream Coalition, a non-partisian organization formed to educate and inform the public, candiates, legislators and others about the misguided efforts of the religious right and their efforts to control local school boards, the legislative bodies of cities, states and the nation, and their efforts to amend the constitution to embody their perception of the proper religious beliefs.
Date:April 10, 1998
From:Charlie Preston
Subject: From the Project Tocsin GuestbookConcerns: Racial or Gender Issues
I have been interested in politics for many years. I am a personal friend of Jerry Sloan, whom I have admired for his tireless efforts to expose the evils of the Christain Right. I was very active in the River City Democratic Club until its collapse. I like to think I have been helpful in some small way for the promotion of gay rights. I have worked in many gay organizations in Sacramento, California, over the years. One of these organizations is the Court of the Great Northwest Imperial Empire, Inc. -- a gay fund raising group raising funds for gay supportive charities. I now live quietly in south Sacramento recoving from a near-fatal illness (not aids).
Date:April 10, 1998
From:Theodora Davitt-Cornyn
Subject: From the Project Tocsin GuestbookConcerns: Church/State Entanglement
I currently serve on the Steering Committee of Project Freedom of Religion, which is jointly sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Association of North America, HQ'd in Boston, and the international Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, HQ'd in Cambridge, MA (P-FOR actually is sponsored by the local Southern California Unit branch of the UUSC.)I'm former ('96-'97) Board President of the Unitarian UNiversalist Fellowship of the Conejo Valley, in Thousand Oaks, California (in Ventura County.) I sometimes refer to Ventura County as a "hotbed of social REST!" :-)Edward Atsinger III lives in nearby Camarillo (owns most Christian broadcasting in US!) and it's also the home of David Murdoch, owner of Dole Foods and Hawaiian American. He was one of Ronald Reagan's most unfluential "kitchen cabinet"!
Date: March 12, 1998
From: Walter Bell
Subject: From the Project Tocsin GuestbookAmong many organizations I am most active as the GA Chapter Vice-president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
I am intrested/concerned with:
gay issues
church & state separation
right wing politics
Christrian Christrian and other far-right groups
school prayer
current events
Date: 3/6/98
From: Jay Jacobson
Subject: From the Project Tocsin Guestbookconcerns: Church/State Entanglement
Executive Director, ACLU of Texas 1992 - present
Executive Director, ACLU of Arkansas 1987 - 1992
I work closely with Cecile Richards of the Texas Freedom Network, an organization that we created in Texas to monitor anc counter the religious right.
Date: 2/28/98
From:Steve Jenkins
Subject: From the Project Tocsin Guestbookconcerns: Church/State Entanglement
My wife, Gay, and I are life-long educators. We are currently administrators in West Texas. I also teach at Sul Ross State University in graduate studies in education. We are very much concerned with maintaining separation of church and state, and in combatting the right from school intrusion.
Date: January 28 1998
From:jim alford
Subject: From the Project Tocsin Guestbook
Concerns: Right-Wing Politics
I am a progressive democrat who has worked in field organizing for campaigns for years.
From:Sue Vire
Subject:Project Tocsin Guest BookConcerns:activism
I am a social worker, happened onto this website after finding the North Dallas church of unbelievers. After reading the description of a "free thinker" I realized it fit me better than athiest or agnotic.....interested in more information. Thanks
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From:Kay Mul'e
Subject: From the Project Tocsin GuestbookConcerns: politics
How can one pick only a single topic of concern. The entire list is of primary concern to me. Keep up the much needed work. Wish I lived in an area with more Atheist involvement as CA has. Non-Believer and Proud Of It!
Date: 1-21-98
From: Louise White
Subject: From the Project Tocsin Guestbookconcerns: Church-State
Date: 1-21-98
From: WENDA ZIMMERMAN-NELSON
Subject: From the Project Tocsin GuestbookI am Jerry's friend....NOT Lewis, NOT Falwell, but Sloan!
Date: 1-19-1998
From: Eleanor Self
Subject: From the Project Tocsin Guestbookconcerns: church-state
Jerry -
We met almost two years ago at the Media & Democracy conference in SF. I do research on the fanatical right in Kentucky.
I'm hoping you can help us with information to fight a law suit brought against me and 16 other gays, gay businesses and gay organizations by Donna Shedd, Ky. Eagle Forum VP. The suit stems from an economic action affecting the business her husband was CEO of and partly owned. Reference is made to the action in the Family Research Council's "The Other Side of 'Tolerance': Victims of Homosexual Activism," page 12. Depositions begin Tuesday, 1/20.
Our action was based on our belief that Donna was "stealthing" her way up the ranks of the Republican party, having once run for state-wide office. We wanted the public to know the full extent of her right wing beliefs and activities.
I am trying to research Reed's "stealth" strategy - anything written about it, where it's been employed. I have the work you researched for Planned Parenthood, "Without Justice for All." Are you aware of anything else that might be of help on this issue? Any help you can provide will be much appreciated. Thanks -Eleanor [phone: 502-451-5934 fax: 502-459-8153]
FROM: Kathryn Wigner
Subject: Project Tocsin Guest Book
Concerns: events
Date: 11/10/97I'm a young female feeling the need to be involved, I hate feeling like I have no voice, and that I could get rights taken away, so I think it['s time for me to speak up. Thanks to my parents formerly very religious right convictions, I was active in that movement and especially the pro-life segment by the time I was 14, before I really knew what I was standing up for. I now know how narrowminded and brain washed I was, and am trying to spread my wings, and do things I really believe in, so I'm interested in your organization. Thanks
FROM: Candace C. Corbani
Subject: Project Tocsin Guest Book
Concerns: church-state
Date: 11/8/97I am a former founding member of the California Republicans for Choice. I am a past Board member of the California Republican League, state and local. Currently, I am a founding member of the Santa Barbara Moderate Republican Majority. Also belong to Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the Religious Coalition for Choice and I serve on the Advisory Board for the Santa Barbara County Planned Parenthood Action Fund. I operate a business: Campaign Resource Network, conducting surveys, fundraising and management functions for candidates for elective office (Republican usually). I want to bept informed and will engage in lobbying activities. I have served on the Board of the local American Hear Assn and American Cancer Society as legislative advisor. let me know if I can help.
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