Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easy to marry the girl you love, but hard to love the girl you marry," William S. Coffin, Chaplain of Yale University, told a Divinity School conference on "The Church and the New Morality" yesterday...
Calling for a return to more meaningful married relation, Coffin emphasized that "more than ever we need to be involved with each other as persons, to enhance rather than bypass each other's personalities...
...Coffin said that he condoned premarital sexual intercourse for an engaged couple who are deeply involved with and committed to one another. "The Bible certainly finds a lot of other things worse," he quipped...
Many people marry to find sexual satisfaction, Coffin claimed. "They enter marriage not because they are prepared to give, but because they desperately need to take. Good marriages are therefore between those who can get along without each other," he stated...
...Harvard Divinity School will sponsor a one-day conference Monday on "The Church and the "New Morality.'" Over 200 Protestant ministers will attend public lectures in Lowell Lecture Hall. Among the speakers will be the Rev. William Sloane Coffin. University Chaplin at Yale, opening address (9 a.m.), and Paul Ramsey, professor of Ethics at Princeton, "Sexual Relations Outside Marriage...