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Committee, December 28, 1976, “The Children of God,” Anti-Defamation League of
B‟nai B‟rith Research Report, March 1979, p. 1, Graham, David, “Way Denies Anti-
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“Former Cult Member Relates Life in Anti-Semitic Militaristic Group,” Asbury Park (NJ)
Press, December 9, 1983, memorandum and material sent by David Stahl to Harvey B.
Schecter, California Regional Director of Anti-Defamation League of B‟nai B‟rith, April
21, 1982, 60 Minutes, CBS-TV program, October 31, 1982.
11. See Pement, E. The Directory of Cult Research Organizations for a list of Evangelical
groups concerned about cults.
12. Loc. Cit.
13. “Rise in Litigation Worries Churches,” Wall Street Journal, April 9, 1985, cited in The
Cult Observer, October, 1985, p. 11.
14. Loc. Cit.
15. Loc. Cit., “Bill to Deny Clergy Malpractice Suits,” The Cult Observer, March/April, 1986,
p. 19, Lindsey, Robert, “The Difficulty in Regulating Religions that Turn a Profit,” The
New York Times, February 9, 1986 cited in The Cult Observer, May/June, 1986, p. 11,
“Clergy Malpractice Bill Dead,” The Cult Observer, May/June 1986, p. 24, “Church Tax
Fraud Scheme,” Los Angeles Times, August 29, 1986 cited in The Cult Observer,
October 1986, p. 9, “Church Elders Sued over Disclosures,” Religious Freedom
Reporter, November, 1984, pp. 321-322 cited in The Cult Observer, January, 1985, p.
4, “Clergy Worried over Malpractice Suit,” Moral Majority Report, January, 1985 cited
in The Cult Observer, May, 1985, p. 6, 8, “Senate Axes Tax Break for Satanists,”
Chicago Tribune, September 27, 1985 cited in The Cult Observer, October, 1985, p. 7,
“Malpractice Fears Hinder Clergy,” USA Today, September 19, 1985 cited in The Cult
Observer, October, 1985, p. 12, “CUT Tax Case Sent Back to Appeal Board,” Livingston
(Montana) Enterprise, August 6, 1985 cited in The Cult Observer, October, 1985, p.
15.
16. “Malpractice Fears,” Op. Cit.
17. Loc. Cit.
18. “Rise in Litigation,”
19. Statement of Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Freedom of June 5, 1984, Excerpts from
transcript of rally in Washington, D.C.
20. “Moon Church Joins Council --Catholics Quit,” The Advisor, June/July, 1981, p. 5.
21. Interview with Ms. Peggy Shriver, February, 1987, “A Critique of the Theology of the
Unification Church as Set Forth in Divine Principle,” Commission on Faith and Order,
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., June, 1977.
22. “Teenagers urged to Evangelize in Schools,” USA Today, July 26, 1985 cited in The
Cult Observer, October 1985, p. 16, “Equal Access Won‟t Help Cults,” The Cult
Observer, January 1985, p. 4, “Equal Access Challenged,” Religious Freedom Reporter,
December, 1984, pp. 335-336 cited in The Cult Observer, February/March, 1985, p. 6.
23. “Jews for Jesus Sues Jewish Community Relations Council,” The New York Times, July
25, 1985 cited in The Cult Observer, September, 1985, p. 7. The Jews for Jesus and
the ABMJ claimed the JCRC violated their civil rights when it sent a memorandum to
rabbis on Long Island urging them to prevent restaurants there from renting facilities
to the Jews for Jesus group for its Passover seders. (Loc. Cit.) In March, 1987 the suit
was dropped. (Update on Cult and Missionary Activity, Jewish Community Relations
Council of New York Task Force on Missionaries and Cults, March, 1987, p. 4)
24. “Families and Cults,” newsletter, The American Jewish Committee, Vol. 3, No. 1,
Winter, 1983, p. 3.
25. Berman, Julius, “A New Dilemma: Missionaries and Cults in Israel,” The Enunah
Woman, November, 1985, p. 20. The Unification Church, Transcendental Meditation
(TM), Hare Krishna, The Church of Scientology, Divine Light Mission, Ananda Marga,

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The Rajneesh Foundation, Iman, and a black nationalist sect, the Black Hebrews, are
active in the Jewish homeland. (Loc. Cit.)
26. “Catholics Vulnerable to Christian-Based Cults,” Catholic Standard, October 4, 1986
cited in Cult Awareness Network News, December, 1986, p. 7.
27. “Survey Catholics‟ Cult Involvement,” Free Minds Newsletter cited in The Cult
Observer, May/June, 1986, p. 30.
28. Dionne, E. J., Jr., “Vatican Taking Some Blame Cites Threat of Cults,” The New York
Times, May 4, 1986, p. 10.
29. Loc. Cit.
30. Loc. Cit., Niebuhr, Gustav, “The Evangelical Revolution --Torn Region Shifts from
Catholicism,” The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution, March 1, 1987, pp. 1A,
10A-11A.
31. Cult conference sponsored by The Pastoral Institute of the Diocese of Brooklyn, at
Cathedral College, Douglaston Queens, on November 4, 1986.
32. Loc. Cit.
33. Shriver interview, Op. Cit.
34. Loc. Cit.
35. Interview with The Reverend Dean Kelley of February, 1987.
36. Loc. Cit.
37. Conversation between one of the authors and a parent who prefers to remain
anonymous.
38. Loc. Cit.
39. Lecture tour announcement from the Church Universal and Triumphant, Autumn,
1980.
40. Cummings, Judith, “Political Storm Swirls Around Newcomers to the Guru‟s Fold,” The
New York Times, November 3, 1984, Martin Douglas, “Guru‟s Commune Roiled as Key
Leader Departs,” The New York Times, September 22, 1985, p. 26, “Rajneeshpuram,
Part II, The New Yorker, September 29, 1986, p. 100.
41. “Priest Outraged at Cult Infiltration of Youth Home,” The Advisor, October/November,
1983, p. 3.
42. Telephone conversation with Dr. James Polk of March 26, 1987. While the Unification
Church has not been very successful in recruiting individual blacks, it has been more
successful in its attempts to enlist the support of black clergy. (Loc. Cit.) The authors
will discuss this later.
43. Wooden, Kenneth, The Children of Jonestown, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York,
1981, p. 65.
44. “Families and Cults,” Op. Cit., p. 1.
45. Polk telephone conversation, Op. Cit.
46. Enroth letter, Op. Cit.
47. Blood, Linda, “Secret Cult: The School of Economic Science,” The Cult Observer,
November, 1985, pp. 17-19, “After 8 years, Bread of Life Went Stale,” Akron Beacon
Journal, December 16, 1985 cited in The Cult Observer, March/April, 1986, p. 6,
“Parishioners Claim Cult Controls Church,” Newark Star Ledger, October 28, 1985 cited
in The Cult Observer, November, 1985, p. 13, “Charismatic Group Curbed,” The
Washington Post, February 15, 1986 cited in The Cult Observer, May/June 1986, p. 29,
Hafred, Op. Cit., “Crossroads‟ Devastating Methods Exposed,” The Cult Observer,
October, 1986, p. 15, Kelly, Michael J., “A Prayer Group that Went Astray,” The
(Hackensack, NJ) Record, January 19, 1986 cited in Cult Awareness Network News,
Vol. II, June, 1986, p. 6, Maske, Monica, “McCarrick Orders Charismatic Sect to Leave
Parent Group,” The Star Ledger, December 16, 1986, pp. 1, 16.
48. “After 8 Years,” Op. Cit.
49. “Parishioners Claim,” Op. Cit., “Charismatic Group Curbed,” Op. Cit., Kelly, “A Prayer
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