The Indecent Crusade

October, 1984

Tupelo, Mississippi (population 20,471), has given the world two media stars in 25 years. Elvis was one. The Reverend Donald Wildmon, a United Methodist minister who founded the National Federation for Decency (N.F.D.), is the other. Beyond sharing a home town, watching a lot of TV and inspiring their fans to roll in the aisles, the two men never had much in common. Wildmon, for instance, can't stand sex, drugs or rock 'n' roll. The late king of rock 'n' roll didn't like people to use the Lord's...