Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, The Southern Baptist Advocate, a nationally distributed magazine published in Texas, says in support of Helms: "In North Carolina, it is a clear cut choice between those who stand on one side of moral issues and those who stand on the other...
...says Charles E. Price, a professor of Law at Notre Dame who wrote an amicus brief on the Moon case for the Center for Judicial Studies, it would be "unfair to many small Southern Baptist ministeries to make them pay for the legal counsel necessary for such a complex change." John T. Biermans, a New York attorney who assisted with Moon's defense, says flatly that "stopping corporation sole would revolutionize religion in this country," and notes that ministers are considerably more accountable for their trust than political candidates who bank contributions in their name...
...anti-bar provision get plastered? Largely because the popular feeling really was against changing the constitution, but OK corraled less votes than it expected to, says Richard D. McCartney, editor of the newspaper for the state's 1460-church, 1.7 million member strong Baptist General Convention, one of the biggest lobbiers against repeal. "We were behind by about 29,000 votes," says McCartney. "Thirteen votes in each precinct would have put us in the lead. We just failed to get the votes...
...more than those who came to see him; surreptitious cassette recorders will doubtless give his sermons wide distribution among Soviets. Graham also took note of how difficult it is for Soviets to display their faith. In his usual appeal for public commitments to Jesus Christ, he asked his Baptist listeners in Leningrad to raise their hands. Despite the presence of KGB plainclothesmen with cameras, two dozen people did so. A parishioner later explained poignantly why more did not respond: "You Americans live in freedom. Our arms are always pressed down to our sides. We are like prisoners. It is hard...
...that neither the state nor any of its officers, including teachers, are to write the prayer. Well then, how will the toddlers know what to say? It appears there is to be some kind of rotalional system whereby the Catholic will bring in his prayer one day, the Baptist the next, then the Jew, and so on. This is an exercise not in religion but in anthropology. If public prayer means anything, it means the joining together of individuals in common devotion. This ecclesiastical musical chairs, however, both trivializes religion and offends it, by asking children to join in prayer...