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Although the American Baptist Churches, of which Gomes is a member, has no stated policy on homosexuality as yet, last June it issued a statement of concern that condemns homosexual practice. As for university officials, President Neil Rudenstine says it is not the school's task to "apply a doctrinal test concerning issues that may be controversial but that are a part of current theological debate, where reasonable people of different religious persuasions hold different views...
...easy. You see, my grandfather was Catholic and my grandmother was Baptist, and they lived in a time and a place when Catholics and Baptists hardly spoke to one another, let alone married each other...
...dramatic scene took place on Birmingham's streets, but its impact on the nation's troubled race relations is far from clear. With a chain draped symbolically over his shoulders and his wrists bound by steel handcuffs, Mayor Richard Arrington marched with hundreds of supporters from the 16th Street Baptist Church, where four girls were killed by a racially inspired bombing in 1963. Their destination: the federal courthouse three blocks away, where Arrington surrendered and was taken to the minimum-security prison camp at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery to begin serving a prison term for contempt of court...
...more visible results of the controversy is that it rekindled the passions that had been damped for decades. At the 16th Street Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. organized demonstrations during the 1960s, throngs of demonstrators waving placards that read RACISM WILL NOT PREVAIL, WE SHALL OVERCOME and RACISM IS CORRUPTION were led in old movement anthems by grizzled civil rights veterans like Woods and the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth. They hoped they were writing a new chapter in an old book. "We put it together once," roared Shuttlesworth to stamping applause, "and we can put it together again." Blacks...
...Hillary Rodham was answering to Hillary Clinton and the family was worshiping regularly at Little Rock's Immanuel Baptist Church. But mostly Clinton was two years older and chastened. He was re-elected, with 55% of the vote...