Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stunned-not by the decision of our Supreme Court but by the criticism by highly respected clergymen. If the clergymen are so critical of the modern words used in Tropic of Cancer, then let them be courageous enough to explain some of the words in the Old Testament. Like millions of Americans, I have full faith in the Supreme Court...
...clergymen are right. So many good, honest, God-directed causes have been wrecked by that tribunal in recent years that there remains only one answer: a series of amendments to the Constitution that will stop this court from pampering known criminals and Communists, contributing to the moral decline of the West, and exposing us all to the wrath...
Orthodox canon law forbids clergymen to kill, and Makarios has never been seen with a gun. But he provided leadership and funds for arms to the island's rebels, and during the 1955-59 rebellion Britain exiled him for a year on the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean. Then, admitting defeat, the British invited Makarios to the London settlement talks, and he returned to Cyprus to be elected the first President...
Barry Goldwater was not the only one talking about decay in the nation's morality. Last week a group of highly respected clergymen, dismayed by Supreme Court decisions in obscenity cases, exploded in furious criticism of the nation's highest court...
What upset the clergymen was the fact that the court recently overturned three state court bans against the sale of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and an Ohio ruling that forbade the showing of a French movie called The Lovers. In all, nine clergymen signed the public statement: Presiding Bishop Lloyd C. Wicke of the Methodist Church New York Conference; the Rev. Wilburn C. West, Eastern States Mission President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; the Rev. W. Scott Morton, Director of New York's Presbyterian University Christian Foundation; Catholic Bishops...