Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent conference in Washington of "Clergymen and Laymen Concerned About Viet Nam," 500 seminarians signed a petition urging the abolition of their exempt status. In a letter to the New York Times last month, three antiwar clergymen, Lutheran Minister Richard J. Neuhaus, Jesuit Father Daniel V. Kilfoyle and Rabbi Lloyd Tennenbaum, contended that "far from aiding institutionalized religion, the total exemption of clergy does American religion a great disservice." This month, Harvard Divinity School will sponsor a two-day seminar on the issue...
...from service, like the old "clergyman's discount" at stores, unfairly and unnecessarily sets the cleric apart as a privileged member of society. Some seminarians even feel that their exemption stigmatizes them in the eyes of others as suspected draft dodgers. Still another argument against exemption is that clergymen, if faced with the real challenge of whether or not to serve, would be forced to evaluate more searchingly the morality of war and of duty. Asks Lutheran Theologian John Elliott of St. Louis' Concordia Seminary: "How can clergymen who have not faced the draft advise men who face...
...smart. The movement itself is overtly anti-intellectual, with constant references to the moral poverty of "brainpower." The 18-year-olds have no trouble grasping a simple solution to complex problems. The world and all its tensione, its bombs and its murderers and its corrupt politicians and its hypocritical clergymen, the world is evil. But all the problems will disappear if all men get the message: Change yourselves. Clean up your dirty characters. Be absolutely moral, live with love and purity and unselfishness and honesty and the world will be good. It is all very nice, and very simple...
...frosty reception from clergymen and social workers caused the plan to fall through. In particular, most social workers felt that law students could not counsel families whose problems were still non-legal. "Students would be," they claim, "in the way of those who know what...
Another area of friction has been the "family lawyer" plan proposed by the CLAO last fall. They hoped that clergymen and social workers would help them select families whose credit, housing, or social status indicated a possible legal crisis in the near future. A CLAO staff assistant would then be assigned to the family to help it avoid the potential crisis...