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Executive Director Andrea Lafferty and Founder Rev. Louis P. Sheldon
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TVC CHAIRMAN SAYS BRESLIN FAKED INTERVIEW
Rev. Sheldon Never Met Liberal Columnist, Never Said The Words He Quotes
Washington, DC - The chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition sent
a telegram to the editor of the New York Daily newspaper NEWSDAY
today complaining about quotes attributed to him in a Jimmy Breslin column published
today.
"I know Jimmy Breslin fills his column with interesting and often fictional
characters," said TVC Chairman Rev. Louis P. Sheldon. 'But the line between
amusing fiction and political commentary seems to have been blurred in today's
Breslin column.
"I have never met Jimmy Breslin, never had the conversation described in
his column today and never said those sentences to anyone in my life.
"I did attend the partial birth signing ceremony at the White House. My picture
was on the front page of another New York newspaper, the NEW YORK TIMES, with
Cardinal Egan and others. That was five months ago not "the other day"
as Breslin states in his column. But such discrepancies in fact are minor when
you are making quotes up out of whole cloth.
"In this column, Breslin looks brilliant and he is right - mouthing the lines
he puts in my mouth I do sound like a "fruitcake." It is no shock that
Breslin always comes out on top in these debates in his column.
"If I didn't know me, reading today's column, I would side with Breslin against
me.
"NEWSDAY
has a responsibility to label fiction as that and not allow it to creep into something
which appears to be political commentary about real persons and issues.
"The NEWSDAY
editors bear the responsibility of separating the colorful fictional characters
of Breslin's columns from those whom he purports to have actually met and interviewed."
Today's edition of NEWSDAY
carries a column by Breslin which includes the following exchange between the
columnist and Rev. Sheldon:
Egan was there shoulder-to-shoulder with Jerry Falwell and the
great Bush favorite, the Rev. Lou Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition.
He is out of Anaheim, Calif., and now is in Washington because he has the big
issue and he belongs downtown with it.
"Homosexuals are dangerous," Sheldon assured me one day. He
was a short man with eyes gleaming when he mentioned how bad homosexuals truly
are."How?"
"They proselytize. They come to the door, and if your son answers
and nobody is there to stop it, they grab the son and run off with him. They
steal him. They take him away and turn him into a homosexual."
"You should be confined," I told him.
"I speak the truth for the Lord," he said.
"You're a fruitcake," I told him.
"No, I speak the truth. They steal your son."
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