Archive/File: identity ppeters.001 Last-modified: 1993/05/01 One of the most prominent of the Identity preachers is Pete Peters of LaPorte, Colorado. Peters' weekly syndicated radio program "Scriptures for America" is obscenely anti-Semitic and racist, yet the program has been carried on Christian radio stations that are otherwise not overtly racist. Every summer, Peters hosts a family Bible retreat and, in 1987 and 1988, the camp featured entertainment by a popular Christian folk music group called "Legacy." The band appears frequently on the main Christian television networks and also at meetings of far-right tax protest groups.<72> At Pete Peters' 1988 Rocky Mountain Family Bible Camp, Legacy musicians Brad Bulla and Barry Boyd joined twelve other Identity movement leaders and signed a covenant statement condemning, among other things, inter-racial marriage.<73> When not helping organize the Identity movement, Legacy entertains groups such as Jay Grimstead's Coalition on Revival. Legacy band member Brad Bulla explains, "We see our ministry as a bridge building ministry. We see that there are a lot of good, sincere, honest people in the Identity movement." Bulla claims he has no problem preaching both to Identity Christians and to Jay Grimstead's group. "We see our ministry as being able to go in and unify the Body of Christ."<74> <72> For example, Legacy played at the "Champions of Freedom Rally," Sacramento, CA, April 5, 1986, sponsored by the far-right Constitutional Patriots Association. <73> Their signatures and photos appeared in a booklet titled "Remnant Resolves," distributed in October 1988 by Scriptures for America, P.O. Box 766, LaPorte, CO 80535. <74> Author's interview with Brad Bulla, May 6, 1988 Work Cited: Diamond, Sara. Spiritual Warfare: The Politics of the Christian Right. Montreal, PQ and New York: Black Rose Books, 1990
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