Crisis of perception Wit with h the t h exorcist h h. h Terry Dillon Associate Editor T Y s r Vie II II I I r Y Y a I u and I 1 saw a new heaven and a new earth Rev 2 11 I spent sacred time with Orrin Hatch last week Sacred time is an expression in the Unitarian faith which means carefully listening without interruption tion holistically listening with full hearing of the heart mind and soul This kind of listening is potent poten t especially when doing sacred time with someone someone someone some some- one as charismatic as Hatch I rem remember standing within blazing distance of Hatchs Hatch's aura in the b basement of the City and County building building building build build- ing when I was 15 years old This was before he was a United States senator He lie was the attorney who represented my non father in a case against Salt Lake County My father had been fired from his job as a county engineer for vicious reasons reasons reasons-a a local kind of job discrimination Hatch succeeded not only in getting getting getting get get- ting my father reinstated but butin butin butin in acquiring a better position as well What I remember feeling when I was standing there by Hatch i is This is the kind of man I want to marry when L I grow up This sensation was followed abruptly by Oh no What could I possibly be bethinking bethinking bethinking thinking I had already been radicalized radicalized radicalized radical radical- at a tender age by the daughter of a Unitarian mini mini- ster She used to bring Iring issues o of f the Berkeley Barb t to o our sixth grade class in Friendswood Texas The two of us would go around saying a ing things like Lets drop Johnson on North Vietnam I knew I wanted to burn my bra even before I was old enough to wear one Hatch therefore represented represented represented everything Id I'd been taught to watch out for My feelings dissolved with intellectual effort into my usual mode of teenage sullenness sullenness although although with a little girls girl's gratitude for what he had done for my dad What made me willing to share sacred time with Hatch lo 10 these 20 years since was not lingering gratitude but two comments made by the eminent senator himself The first was when after making a plea for moral h. h h I II I t. t k It gL a 9 4 f r- r i u uI I s I Photo by Ed Lite Ule Senator Orrin Hatch values he asked students at to write to him if they could think of any compassionate compassionate compassionate compas compas- governmental solutions solutions solutions to help citizens out during this economic crisis He said that everyone should get involved politically political political- ly and that if any of us were democrats we should be good democrats The second comment was reported by me in the last issue of Horizon Hatch informed informed informed in in- formed the audience that he has apologized to former President Jimmy Carter for excessive criticisms isms he made of that tion I was a lot younger then Hatch said Back then things looked a little more black a little more white to tome tome tome me me he explained With age comes wisdom even for teenage radical bra- bra burners make burners make that training- training bra And as the proverb says He who is wise wins souls My prayer then for the senator to take back backwith backwith backwith with him to Washington Washington- especially with regard to Campaign 92 May he who is wise win Next week full confession my conservative values Editors Editor's note Judith Exner appeared on Larry King Live not on David King Live as was previously reported in inBODY inBODY inBODY BODY SOUL Standing up for the true basis of faith Horizon February 19 1992 We were having a Biblical Freudian slip So sorry