ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Monday, October 7, 1996 TAG: 9610070170
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-3 EDITION: METRO
Mormon tells moms: Stay home
SALT LAKE CITY - Mormon Church President Gordon Hinckley said Sunday that, if possible, mothers should forgo full-time jobs in favor of raising their children at home.
``It is well-nigh impossible to be a full-time homemaker and a full-time employee,'' Hinckley said in a sermon directed to the women of the 9.6 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Hinckley recognized that many women cannot stay at home to raise their children because of economic reasons.
``To you I say, do the very best you can,'' he said. ``I hope that if you are employed full time you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars and other luxuries.''
- Associated Press
Bakker book-signing suffers rocky start
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Former TV evangelist Jim Bakker's inaugural book-signing got off to a rocky start when the first person in line demanded to know what he did with the millions he collected from PTL followers.
``The public has a right to know!'' Marilyn Barnhardt shouted Saturday. ``What about all those people who gave you money? What do you have to say to them?''
Bakker flashed a grin and looked nervously to the next person in line. Barnhardt continued shouting questions until a bookstore representative told her to move on.
Bakker soon began trading hugs, kisses and ``God bless yous'' with some of the 200 people who waited for his signature on ``I Was Wrong,'' an autobiography selling for $24.99.
``This support was way beyond my wildest dreams,'' Bakker said later.
It was Bakker's first appearance in Charlotte since he was convicted in 1989 for bilking 116,000 followers out of $158 million and diverting $3.7 million in ministry money to buy expensive homes, jewelry and vacations.
Many in attendance showed support for Bakker, who admits in the book that he was wrong to live - and preach - an opulent lifestyle. He still contends he defrauded no one.
- Associated Press
Walkers raise $2 million for AIDS
WASHINGTON - Infants in strollers, couples hand-in-hand, dogs wearing red ribbons made their way around the streets of the nation's capital Sunday in an annual trek to raise money for the care of AIDS patients.
Organizers estimated that more than 15,000 people participated in the 10th annual AIDS Walk Washington.
Tipper Gore, the vice president's wife and the walk's honorary chairwoman, sent the walkers on their way with an appeal to keep up the search for a cure to the disease that has killed 300,000 people in the United States. ``The fight is not over until all our loved ones are safe,'' she said.
Those who traveled the walking tour's full 6.2 miles raised more than $2 million for AIDS programs at the Whitman-Walker Clinic.
- Associated Press
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