Nebraska Pornography
Censors:
Gullible
Crackpots |
Some
Nebraska and Omaha censors are crackpots who have no credibility.
Fremont has a censorship
group similar to the Omaha for Decency censorship group, called
Fremont Area Citizens for Decency. Like Omaha for Decency, the
Fremont group tries to get stores to stop selling sexually explicit
materials and pressures the city to impose censorship. One of the
persons who has served on the board (as Vice President) of Fremont
Area Citizens for Decency is Margaret Kaspar. (Omaha
World Herald, 4/4/1991 and Fremont
Tribune, 6/8/1991).
In
June 1999, Margaret Kaspar told the Omaha World Herald that
God had supernaturally transformed one of her dental crowns into
solid gold! (Omaha
World Herald, 6/27/1999). When Kaspar had her dentist,
Dr. James Wewel in Fremont, look at the crown he informed her that
it already had a gold color when it was put in
(although it was not actually made of gold). But Kaspar still stood
by her dental "miracle" claim without even having the material from
the crown analyzed. Obviously Kaspar is a complete nutcase. Do you
want people like this dictating what you can and cannot read or
watch?
Of
course this is not meant to suggest that people are
nutcases just because they have devout religious beliefs.
(Even other fundamentalists agree that these dental
miracle claims are absurd. See the article at http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticleid=5297 for an example.) But crackpots like Kaspar
make these bizarre claims even when there is obvious
evidence which contradicts their claims. Another example is Dave
Maxwell of the Bellevue Christian Center who claimed that his silver
dental fillings had been miraculously transformed by God into
gold. When Maxwell let a World Herald staff member look
into his mouth, the person from the World Herald saw
that the fillings were still
silver.
Margaret
Kaspar's pastor, Les Beauchamp of Trinity Church Interdenominational
in Omaha, believed these dental miracle claims and preached about
them. Beauchamp is listed as a supporter of Omaha for Decency's
anti-porn crusade in a newspaper ad placed by the group in the
7/9/2000 Omaha World Herald. (A copy of the ad
is displayed here).
Pastor Beauchamp preached that these "miracles" have been
reported worldwide. What he obviously didn't mention, though, is
that the people in various places who have made these claims have
later found that their dental records prove a dentist put in
the gold dental work. In other cases, observers saw that
the dental work was still silver.(References.) This, of course, is the same
pattern shown by the people from Omaha who made these claims.
Two other pastors who believed
these so called miracles are Pastor Ray Mayhew (also from
Trinity Church Interdenominational) and Pastor Rod Whitlock of
Bellevue Christian Center. Both of these pastors are also listed as
supporters of Omaha for Decency in their anti-porn ad.
No wonder Omaha for
Decency claims that eliminating porn would reduce sex crimes.
Some of the members are so gullible, they'll believe literally
anything. (The claim that eliminating porn would reduce sex
crimes is a myth, and is discussed on another section of this site.) Do you want these
crackpots dictating what you can or cannot read or watch in the
privacy of your own home? Of course not. They have no
credibility.
Yes, it
sounds unbelievable that adults would actually claim that their
dental work was supernaturally transformed to gold, especially in a
mainstream newspaper article. This is why a small excerpt from the
6/27/1999
Omaha World Herald article is shown below.
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