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Cultural Rebellion. Whether or not they favor pot, many clergymen condemn strict laws against its use. Dr. James Donaldson of the Los Angeles Council of Churches believes that the severe penalties "fall not only on gangsters but on young people experimenting with cultural rebellion." Others argue that antimarijuana laws are an unfortunate attempt to legislate morality. Like the laws of Prohibition, they feel, such laws are bound to be dropped from the books as more and more people come to accept pot as simply another of life's pleasures. Questioning the morality of marijuana, says Father Richard Mann...
...person hardly expects the arrival of 460 Anglican clergymen to signal wholesale whoopee. But judging from the Lambeth '68 guidebook, printed to help the bishops when they met last week for their decennial conference in London, somebody expects the old boys to kick up their heels a bit. In the section on where to eat, the Barque and Bite was highly recommended because "you get a sherry on the house while you study the menu." Chez Solange came out as "very, very French" with "ludicrously large helpings, noisy French neighbors and good carafe wine." L'Etoile was billed...
...Join Hands. At Uppsala, Mc Gaw held his services at a small pre- fabricated chapel outside the main assembly hall. Initially, he asked the worshipers, mostly curious clergymen and youth delegates attending the conference, to divide themselves into circles of six, join hands and pray or meditate. Each person was then asked to explain what the moment had meant for him. In the next phase, the worshipers one by one stood in the center of the circle, closed their eyes, and let themselves fall backward; they were caught and passed from one member of the group to another. "The purpose...
BDRG says it intends to make this list of board members available to neighborhood groups, in order that parents, clergymen, businessmen, professionals, and student registrants may put pressure on board members to resign...
Place of Confrontation. Exercising sanctuary privileges will, at best, only delay the inexorable law. Yet many clergymen are delighted with the opportunity to use their houses of worship in what they feel is an openly defiant way of supporting dissent. Roman Catholic Monsignor George W. Casey of St. Brigid's Church in Boston says that he finds some comfort in the fact that draft resisters-most of them nonreligious-have sought the church "as a place of confrontation. Church has been fading from the sight of young America. We hear the word 'irrelevant' so often it makes...