Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, July 3, 1993 TAG: 9307030165
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The winner, chosen by an anonymous committee from the Country Music Association, will be announced Sept. 29 during the 27th annual CMA awards show on CBS-TV.
\ An Iowa mail carrier quit after refusing to deliver issues of Time and Newsweek, saying the covers would have tempted the 301 people on his route to sin.
George Yoerger, a substitute carrier, left behind the magazines when he left to deliver the mail June 15 in Moville, Iowa.
The Newsweek cover showed two women hugging under the headline: "Lesbians Coming Out Strong; What Are the Limits of Tolerance?" Time's cover showed a bikini-clad prostitute perched on a bar patron's lap.
Postmaster Diane Lander told him later that day that he had to make a choice: Deliver the magazines or lose the job.
"As a follower of Jesus Christ, the only choice open to me was the latter," said Yoerger, who farms and had worked as a substitute mail carrier for about three years.
Yoerger said delivering the magazines would have meant he was delivering his customers "into the mind of Satan by tempting them to sin."