The Task Force did not call one expert witness on any of the following groups that have adverse effects on University students and their parents:

fraternities (hazing, binge drinking, death)
-drug pushers (addiction, bad grades, death)
-sports teams (serious injury, bad grades)
-gay groups (AIDS, problems for parents)
-Marxist groups (violent revolution)
-prostitution rings
-gun clubs
-black separate groups
-white separatist groups
-businesses that sell alcohol to students
-purveyors of pornography
-tobacco companies
-tattoo and piercing parlors
-doctors that prescribe speed and steroids
-teachers who sell grades for sex
-booster groups that corrupt athletes
-rap groups and their record companies
-video game companies
-credit card companies that encourage debt
-D & D enthusiasts and the chess club

Studying all types of groups indeed! I challenge the chairman to name three groups studied by his task force that are not religious in nature. Perhaps the task force should be investigated for practicing "heavenly deception."

-- Dan Fefferman, Executive Director, Int. Coalition for Religious Freedom (posted 8/20, 11:05 a.m., E.D.T.)

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