Anti-Rock & Roll Crusade
Janet going girl reporter to the Community Baptist Church in Garden City to interview anti-rock and roll crusader priest. Glad to say they got on fine - Deday).
Q: Rev. Riblett, you recently constructed a seven foot cross out of rock and roll records contributed by members of your congregation, doused it with gasoline and set fire to it. Why did you do that?
A: Well, it all started several months ago when I preached a message on “Rock and Roll: The Devil’s Diversion.” That’s not an original title; it’s from another young man has a book by the same title — just preaching on the various evils of rock and roll, mainly the lyrics and the beat and all the rest of it that goes with it. It all blends together to make just immoral music as far as I’m concerned. I read some of the words to it quoted right out of some of their own magazines which I have to use with that message. At the end of . the service I gave an invitation — I almost didn’t but I decided to right on the spur of the minute — and we had 18 teenagers come forward rededicating their lives, many of them to give up rock and roll.