Word: barrett
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was undoubtedly asking too much. With gallows wit, Sorensen remarked: "Well, Gary Gilmore and I..." He told TIME New York Bureau Chief Laurence Barrett: "As someone said to me this morning, a lot of dirty little streams flowed together to make this flood. There was the extreme right, the Kennedy haters, the Carter haters. The smokescreen reasons-outright lies and falsehoods-masked the real opposition. To boil it down to one sentence, people felt that an outsider with my beliefs should not head that agency...
Amber Jim asked Gilmore what TV shows he liked best. He didn't watch TV, but he liked to go to drive-in movies and eat popcorn and potato chips with his girl friend, Nicole Barrett. Music? He liked all kinds, Gilmore confided, but cowboy music most-Hank Williams, Johnny Cash. And who did he think he had been in previous incarnations? Perhaps an Indian. "I feel close to Indians, and Indians like...
...Episcopal Church, which has just begun ordaining women as priests, added a new twist to that innovation last week. New York City's liberal Bishop Paul Moore ordained the Rev. Ellen Barrett, 30, the denomination's first openly committed homosexual priest of either sex. In an unusual last-minute plea to prevent the action, Colorado's Bishop William Frey had wired Colleague Moore: "Ordination of practicing homosexuals does not represent the mind of the church and is plainly contrary to the teachings of Scripture which we have all sworn to uphold...
...During Barrett's ordination service, another priest, James Wattley, spoke out against it as a "travesty and a scandal." Moore answered that "many persons with homosexual tendencies are presently in the ordained ministry," and that Barrett was "highly qualified intellectually, morally and spiritually to be a priest...
...Barrett, who has been studying for a doctorate in social ethics at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, goes somewhat beyond "homosexual tendencies." She has said candidly that her relationship with her lesbian lover "is what feeds the strength and compassion I bring to the ministry." She also believes that "homosexuality is an alternative life-style that can be a good and creative thing...