Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your July 13 story on Alabama Baptist and Methodist opposition to Governor John Patterson's endorsement of Senator John Kennedy for 1960: the Alabama Baptist and the Methodist Christian Advocate would appear to be far more "determined and power-hungry" than any "Romanist hierarchy" they condemn. As for Senator Kennedy's being "hopelessly dominated by the Catholic hierarchy," one doubts if any Catholic journal has ever dictated to him how he should vote...
...Named "X." Elijah Muhammad was born Elijah Poole, son of a Baptist minister, in Sandersville, Ga. on Oct. 7, 1897, later moved with his family to Detroit. One momentous day, he tells the faithful, he met one Fard Muhammad, who revealed himself to be "Allah on earth"-on earth, that is, just long enough to pick the "messenger" for his black-supremacy doctrine. Messenger Elijah dropped his "slave-master name" of Poole, took up the spiritual surname Muhammad (lacking religious surnames, his ministers just use "X"). He founded Temple No. i in 1931, but soon ran into difficulties...
...Herald-Dispatch, booming West Coast Negro paper, not only gained attention from his personal column, but also found their circulations boosted fast by Moslems who hawked the papers on street corners as a spiritual duty. Such leading Negro Harlem politicos as Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church) and Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack have curried Moslem favor, even though full-fledged Moslems are enjoined not to vote...
Defendant Korpa had told the judge that he attended a Roman Catholic church, and to Baptist Eyman it seemed quite "normal and natural to tell the boy to go to church." But last week the American Civil Liberties Union was yelling foul. The spirit of the Constitution had been violated, said A.C.L.U.'s Northern California Director Ernest Besig, and he called upon the writings of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson for proof: "No official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion, or force citizens...
Nominally a Baptist (her father left the Catholic Church as a young man), Sue Ingersoll became a convert to Catholicism 2½ years ago. Now Sue painstakingly undertook to explain to her former fellow Protestants that a Catholic "cannot be pushed around," is free to rely on his own conscience in matters outside "direct canonical concern." Said she: "Bishops, cardinals and even Popes may be subjected to criticism." Even excommunication is only "a denial of certain privileges, in much the same way that a teen-ager might be denied the use of the family car. He is, of course, still...