KERRY may not have met LaVey, but *I* have:
http://pw1.netcom.com/~mikalm/devil.htm
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From: "dne44" <dne_at_dslextreme.com>
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Subject: [OliveStarlightOrchestra] Kerry and Anton LaVey
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> Did Kerry meet with the world's leading Satanist? Snopes.com says no,
> but as Joy has pointed out, it has a liberal bias...
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> http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/lavey.asp
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> A Man of Wealth and Taste
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> Claim: Photograph shows Senator John Kerry shaking hands with Anton
> LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan.
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> Status: False.
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> Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2003]
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> (Click to enlarge)
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> PLEASE ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF: Anton La Vey, high priest of the
> Church of Satan, meets with noted Attorney John Kerry at CISPES
> function.
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> Origins: Politics often joins some strange bedfellows, but it
> doesn't get much stranger than this: Senator John Kerry of
> Massachusetts posing with Anton Lavey, the self-proclaimed High
> Priest of the Church of Satan.
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> This one is easy to debunk even without knowing anything about the
> origins of the photograph. Although a portion of the date in the
> putative newspaper clipping is (deliberately) obscured, enough of it
> shows to reveal that the article in question supposedly comes from an
> edition of the San Francisco Chronicle published on a Sunday, July
> 17, sometime in the 1980s. Only twice in the 1980s did July 17 fall
> on a Sunday, in 1983 and 1988, and the 1983 date is ruled out because
> the article refers to "congressman John Kerry," but Kerry wasn't
> first elected to Congress until 1984. A search of the 17 July 1988
> edition of the San Francisco Chronicle turns up no such article.
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> This item is doubly debunkable because we do know something about the
> origins of the photograph. It's a fake, a composite made from two
> other images: one of John Kerry greeting clown Rami Salami in 1998,
> and a picture of Anton LaVey posing with rocker Marilyn Manson in
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> Last updated: 28 October 2004
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Received on 2004-10-28 17:45:29