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LOBENTHAL page 3
troit in 1964. He worked through
the civil-rights era, beginning in
Texas when public drinking foun-
tains were marked W, C, or LA
(white, colored, or Latin Ameri-
can).
He went to Virginia when
people were proudly proclaim-
ing they had changed the pro-
nunciation of "n-i-g-r-a" to
"knee-grow." And he pushed for
a fair-housing law in 1964 De-
troit that was overwhelmingly
defeated by the voters. (It nar-
rowly passed the following year.)
When Mr. Lobenthal took the
Detroit job, the ADL was not
highly thought of here. Upon ar-
riving, he worked with Ann Ar-
bor police and University of
Michigan officials before a cam-
pus speech of George Lincoln
Rockwell, head of the American
Nazi Party. As former head of
the Richmond office, Mr. Loben-
thal was ADL's national expert
on Mr. Rockwell.
The following day, Mr. Loben-
thal went to his first Jewish
Community Council meeting.
The group discussed the Rock-
well appearance, but no one else
at the meeting had attended the
Democracy,
Abortion,
Kevorkian,
Religion
ALAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR
I
he ongoing battle for
democracy in the United
States is Dick Loben-
thal's biggest concern.
He sees anti-democratic
forces, like the religious right
and the John Birch Society, as
the ideological movers away
from a free society in this coun-
trY-
"They want to defeat mis-
chievous forces in this country,"
he said, but will take away free-
doms to achieve that goal.
"The black response to the
O.J. Simpson verdict and the
white response to Pat
Buchanan," he says, "were the
same: We're not going to put up
with this mess.
"Technology and the popula-
tion size of this country have so
changed that the concepts that
have undergirded democracy
have changed. We've gone from
a nation of 17 million to a na-
tion of nearly 300 million, and
the government is no longer ef-
ficient. This trend has led to a
growing number of extremists
and a growing dissatisfaction
among non-extremists."
He said the biggest battles in
his 37 years with the Anti-
event. Mr. Lobenthal offered to
give a report, but was ruled out
of order. "We don't listen to ADL
here," he was told.
He is proud that perception of
ADL has changed, but so have
civil rights and the climate of
democracy.
"Prejudice today? It's a given
that it's undesirable," he said.
"Thirty-five years ago, it wasn't
clear that it was undesirable.
But that doesn't mean there is
no prejudice today.
"Now, we talk about how
much cultural diversity is ap-
propriate. Thirty-five years ago,
we had to beg to even discuss it.
We used to joke at ADL that
Brotherhood Week meant that
for 51 weeks 'I'm going to kick
your a—, and then for one week
during the year I'll pretend I
won't do it.' "
Before the national civil-rights
legislation of the 1960s, moral
and financial arguments were
used to desegregate. Mr. Loben-
thal helped Corpus Christi,
Texas, integrate its schools. The
most impelling reason, he said,
was that the black high school's
football quarterback could lead
Defamation League have been
the most pervasive: "cyclical
movements that come back
dressed in other clothing."
He equates the John Birch
Society of the 1970s with the re-
ligious right of the 1990s. "Some
of the people are the same," he
says, "and the issues are the
same — distrust, supremacy (I'll
teach you how to live) and frus-
tration with the complexities of
modern life."
In the '70s, according to Mr.
Lobenthal, the John Birch So-
ciety blamed these problems on
communism. In the '90s, the re-
ligious right says godlessness is
the culprit. "We are given sim-
plistic answers, and we are told
that 'we will impose law ac-
cording to our religion. We will
outlaw things that my religion
does not like.'
"The abortion debate," he
says, "centers around the reli-
gious definition of life. The Jew-
ish definition says life begins at
birth or, really, a little after
birth. The fundamentalist
Christians say life begins at con-
ception. And the Chinese say
life begins before conception."
He argues that fundamen-
talist Christians are preaching
that the U.S. Constitution vio-
lates the Christian Bible.
Rabbis, he says, struggle with
the appropriateness of assisted
suicide. But Oakland County
Prosecutor Richard Thompson,
according to Mr. Lobenthal,
says his religion requires him
to prosecute Dr. Jack Kevorkian
for assisting suicides.