Other Work Opposing Controversial Groups
At one point in time Davis had sold Jim Jones a synagogue building which in the mid-1950s became the home for the first Peoples Temple group in Indianapolis, Indiana. When informed of the massacre at Jonestown, Guyana, Davis remarked: "I keep thinking what happens when the power of love is twisted into the love of power".
In 1980 Davis was sued for $2 million by a woman who claimed that he held her against her will in a deprograming case.
Davis later testified at a Congressional panel organized by Senator Bob Dole that he had received death threats due to these statements. In 1982, Davis received the Leo J. Ryan Award, named for the only Congressman to die in the line of duty, Representative Leo J. Ryan. In 1990, Davis criticized the Jews for Jesus movement as being "devious" and "deceptive". He further stated that "people who accept Jesus as the Messiah by definition Christians; they are not Jewish."
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