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Ramsey To Host 1 ance Dinner Speaker of the House Liston B Kamaey will serve as banquet chair man for the annual Vance-Aycock dinner. Democratic Party Chairman David E. Price has announced This year's dinner will be held October tin Asheville, in the new ballroom of the Grove Park Inn. "Vance-Aycock weekend promises to be a gala occasion,'' Ramsey said "It will serve as a time for all good Democrats to join together as we, and unite their efforts for Democratic TRAC Presents Musical The Toe River Arts Council will present "Cotton Patch Gospel", a musical based upon Dr. Clarence Jordan's 'Cotton Patch Version Of Matthew and John' on Sept. IS at Mountain Heritage H.S. in Burn sville. Showtime is 8 p.m. in the school auditorium. Tickets are $6 for adults, $3.50 for children under 121 and are available at the NCNB branch in Spruce Pine and at the TRAC offices in Burnsville. For more information, contact TRAC at 682-7215. Now U the victories in November time for the waatorn part of North Carolina to ihine," he added. - The Vance- Ay coek Dinner it the ~ North i aroiina Democratic Party's major fall fundraiser It was named (or Governors Zebulon B. Vance of Buncombe County and Charles B. Ay cock of Way ne County Speaker Ramsey has served 11 terms in the North Carolina House, and has served as Speaker since 1981 In addition to his duties in the House, he has served on the State Democratic Executive Committee on the Board of Aldermen in the town of Karafeall, and as a delegate to the IMS - Democratic; National Convention . ( Ramsey is a native of Mttfhall and currently resides there with his wife Florence. His daughter, Hartal Ramsey Geouge, lives in Asheville. Ramsey is a member of the Elks. Maaons, American Uegion and Vet erans of Foreign Wars, and served in dhe Army Air Corps from 1944 until 1946. THE MARS HILL BLUE JAYS took first place in the recent Madison County softball tournament. By DIANE WINSTON and ELIZABETH LELAND The News and Observer Biblical prophecies concerning the war between the kingdom of li^* and the kingdom of darkness are on the Rev. Tom Vestal s mind. So is the November election for president and U.S. senator in North Carolina. "We're fighting a spiritual battle," said Vestal, pastor of Mount Olivet Baptist Church in Raleigh "It's time for Christians to be involved in politics." Vestal has involved himself in voter registration drives At his church. "You're hearing more and more people take a stand for righteousness based on the morality of the Bible and taking that stand and wting it spill over into the legislative and political arena," Vestal said. "That excites me." Vestal is one of many conservative Christians who agree with President Reagan's recent remark: "Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and m necessarily related." In this election year, the traditional American separation between religion and politics is being blurred ? not for the first time, but perhaps to a greater extent than before ? as conservative and New Right politicians invoke God. the Bible and morality in their campaigns. Their efforts have prompted concern in some religious and political circles that the New Right is trying to impose its morals on others by having them written into law. That concern was expressed recently by Demo cratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale, who said: "Once you let the politicians interfere with religious faith, you destroy it." In North Carolina, Christian fundamentalists have become vocal in their support of Republican I Sen. Jesse A. Helms, who has placed issues such as Jr., who wwts to tftkt Hclins SdiAtc sc3t? liss not Hunt's longtime friend'andNtegll counsd.'Tlphil Carlton, has warned about the perils o t mixing religion and politics. "I have no problem at all with Jerry Falwell preaching a sermon on abortion, but don't tell me Fm a godless liberal if I have a different view," Carlton said in an interview. He referred to Hunt's position that abortion ? although the governor personally opposes it ? should be a decision between a woman and her physician, not a decision by the government. "Nobody in this campaign is claiming that religion doesn't have a place in politics," Carlton said. "Everything I do has been affected by my religion. But it's this dogmatism I don't like. "These extremists claim that we have no place in this campaign because we believe in things they say are immoral . . . because we believe that other things like the economy and the environment ought to be addressed," he said. "They narrow the agenda to issues that scare people and then claim to have exclusive truth on all those issues." The Rev. H. Lamarr Mooneyham disputes that. He says the very reason for the New Right's religious activism is that liberals have been imposing their morality on others for years. "People realize that all the laws and legislation are, in effect, the imposing of someone's morality or the lack of it," said Mooney ham, former North Carolina pres ident of Moral Majority who now heads the organisation's national field office in Lynchburg, Va. "I see Democrats rejecting ab solutes .... The grass roots of the nation are returning to old, traditional values. They want rep resentation in Washington that at least acknowledges the existence of a moral BibUcal absolute ?" Die Moral Majority, under Fal well's lcsdcrsliipi for the past year has been trying to register new conservative voters to sup port Helms and Reagan ? at the same time that the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson has been mobilising black voter registration on behalf of Democrats. While Jackson's focus on eco nomic issues has a traditionally Democratic appeal, tha conserva tives, by focusing on moral issues, are crossing party lines and mobi lising a new conservative constituency It's riot party poli tics these Christians are con cerned about; it's issues such as abortion and school prayer. "We're becoming very shaken," said the Rev. Charles Denhart, pastor of Cary Alliance -Church. "We realize we've been *o quiet. We're not trying to Upeet anything. We're trying to help people understand where we *re." .' Denhart, a conservative evan gelical, has for years felt strongly about such issues as abortion. But he didn't become politically in volved until this summer when the Rev. Sun Myung Moon was sent to Jfil for tax evasion. Denhart saw the government's prosecution of Moon as state interfersnoa In religion and decided tbwiW] eteot candidates wb filllnfa OfjBlS '"the other morning 4 i. breakfast with BiH Cobey, hart said, referring to ' congressional Chapel Hill. "He k really a Christian man. ... I don't stand up on a Sunday morn say, 'Vote for BiH Cobey. ' But 1 can say it In a Sunday School class and I'm beginning to talk to people in groups of four and five and encourage them to know the "I say from the pulpit, 'Don't vote the party. Vote the i professor of political the University of North Carolina at Chapel UU who k Stoney Knob Shoe Center (704) 645-7332 "SHOES FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY" Mtto i Joyce Ingle A*hev?eWe? vervilte Hwy Owners WeavervMe.NC 28787 If you wish to join us in bringing the church news to our community by sponsoring this page contact Marshall Farm & Garden Supply Marshall By-Pau 649*3332 Open: 8:00 AM ? 5:00 PM Monday - Saturday ?>. ' " ?? ? v;^'' w At one of our universities the freshman dormitories completely surround a grassy plot reached through a shadowy stone portal. Originally called the -QUADRANGLE" because of its four imposing sides, it has long since become simply the Quad. 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