Word: baptiste
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There are 26 million Baptists in 121 countries around the world, 23 million of them Americans and 10.6 million of them members of the virtually all-white Southern Baptist Convention. Last week, following up declarations on racial justice passed by their annual sessions in June, Southern Baptists joined with other delegates to elect without opposition the first Negro president of the Baptist World Alliance. He is William R. Tolbert Jr., 52, vice president of Liberia since...
Title VII expressly forbids "employers, unions and employment agencies" to practice discrimination "because of race, color, religion, sex or national origin." It just as expressly allows a host of exemptions. Italian restaurateurs, for instance, are given the privilege of employing Italian chefs. Baptist clergymen may go right on hiring Baptist sextons. In one instance, Title VII authorizes reverse discrimination. The act gives employers ranging from Minnesota wild-rice farmers to New Mexico electronics manufacturers the option of hiring only American Indians...
...working with the community toward their common goals. This spring, the ministry derided a pledge, signed by a number of white and Negro civic leaders, to provide equal job opportunities. A note of class-struggle belligerency has crept into the ministry's words as the strike has spread. Baptist Minister Laurice Walker, a staff member of the project, whips up plantation workers by denouncing "the man in the big white house taking food out of your wife's and your children's mouths and the clothes off your back...
...million-member Southern Baptist Convention is the nation's larg est Protestant church - and the one that has spoken and acted least on civil rights. Now the Baptists seem willing to correct this unenviable record. Last week in Dallas, 8,000 "messengers" to the Convention's annual sessions voted overwhelmingly to accept a report by the Christian Life Commission that sharply criticized the church for silence on racial issues...
...many Baptists, the significance of these steps was not the formal condemnation of segregation-something that plenty of Baptist laymen and ministers have done for years-but the recognition by a new generation of church leaders that their traditional conception of sin and evil must be broadened. The Rev. Browning Ware, of Beaumont, Texas, expressed the general anxiety vividly. He questioned pastors who "buckle on the armor of protectors of public interest and rush to do battle with gambling, liquor, and separation of church and state" while taking little heed of "conflicts in human relations, adequate education, and poverty...