Word: clergymen
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...never would the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 have passed Congress unless clergymen of all faiths had joined to press it through...
...unnamed but presumed targets of the Christie Institute, Moral Majority Founder Jerry Falwell, dismissed the charges as "a thinly veiled attack on Ronald Reagan by liberal clergymen who have thus far found him invulnerable." Falwell said that he repudiated any "extremist world view which demands a nuclear Armageddon...
...wormy place in the seven satiric novels of A.N. Wilson. The deadly sins flourish there, as do those lapses of character and taste that can turn a serious life into a pathetic farce. At 34, this precociously wise and productive British writer has pierced the intimidating exteriors of physicians, clergymen and scholars. Scandal takes on politicians, journalists, prostitutes, thugs, spies, not-so-innocent bystanders and that quaint ideal, the dutiful wife of a public figure...
...remarks of some contemporary politicians and preachers, religious freedom for all was not a cornerstone of American democracy. The Puritans in England, for example, went to the New World because they believed it was a place where they might have religious freedom, but only for themselves. Wherever Early American clergymen controlled the lives of their people, they permitted absolutely no dissent from their own religious and political beliefs...
...what the wife said, thus undermining his privilege claim. Nonetheless, the National Coalition for Religious Freedom is offering him legal help because of its belief in the primacy of the privilege. Whatever the courts may decide in Crumbaugh's case and, more important, Mellish's, virtually all clergymen will continue to honor the privilege. For them the question is not whether they should, even in child-abuse cases. The question is whether they will be jailed for doing...