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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...
Bennett, vice chairman of New York State's Liberal Party, the clergymen complained that "nothing justifies the smears" being circulated on the Jenkins case.* "A few episodes involving personal morality are allowed to obscure fateful moral issues related to public life -moral issues such as the full civil rights of all citizens, the shameful squalor and poverty in our cities and the danger of nuclear war," said the statement. "We see the Jenkins episode as a case of human weakness. If there is a security factor involved, let that be dealt with on its own terms...
...After. The clergymen's statement appeared the very day after Lyndon himself had revived the Jenkins case with his own dirty dig at the Eisenhower Administration, and on the very day after Barry Goldwater protested about "the clerical spokesmen who now become loud advocates of President Johnson" and suggested that they "get back to their business" of protecting the nation's morals...
Douglass, who has championed these experiments despite opposition from more traditional clergymen, believes that the church "must meet people where they carry on their most vital tasks." In Detroit, United Church, Presbyterian and Episcopal ministers jointly carry on an industrial mission at 30 factories, visiting both workers and management during lunch hours. Last week, the Homeland Ministries Board approved the assignment of a minister to live and work in one of Pittsburgh's new high-rise apartment buildings. His "church" will be the laundry room, the sundeck, the lobby-anywhere that residents gather to talk...
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...