Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson's confidence was reinforced by 44 leading clergymen, many of them accredited liberals, who took a gratuitous, though oblique, swipe at Barry Goldwater and the whole Republican Party for using the Jenkins case "as a weapon in this campaign." In a 350-word statement issued by Union Theological Seminary President John...
Rabbi Ben Zion Gold and Rev. Richard Mumma, members of the United Ministry at Harvard and Radcliffe signed a statement issued by 75 Protestant and Jewish clergymen Tuesday castigating Goldwater as opposed to the demands of Jewish and Christian ethics...
...with great disappointment that I see America's "leading clergymen" have thought it ethical to use their power, pulpits and journals as instruments for influencing politics [Oct. 9]. This action appears even more ludicrous in view of the scandals that have been characteristic of the Johnson Administration. Why has there been no mass clerical denunciation of the Bobby Baker scandal? Certainly the respectable clergy cannot be blind to the lack of morality in high offices and widespread disregard of the law that are now so prevalent in our country...
...Lutheran Pastor Arnold Mickelson "to get people to talk about their problems and their faith, to meet the community outside the church and discuss issues the public wants to talk about." A special interfaith committee scheduled more than 200 talk-stirring events, most of them under secular auspices, while clergymen stayed discreetly in the background. The dialogue was supported by nearly all local churches and service clubs...
Once upon a time, most churchmen stayed discreetly on the sidelines dur ing a presidential campaign. No more. This year, as never before, religious journals, church groups and individual clergymen are deeply, openly involved in the election. The overwhelming majority are against Barry Goldwater and, though less fervently, for Lyndon Johnson. In marked contrast with 1960, when Protestant ministers soberly debated whether John F. Kennedy's Roman Catholicism might impair church-state separation - and mostly concluded that it would not - churchmen this year have generated more heat than light...