Word: confesser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Occasion for the argument: the Church Meeting of the state Lutheran church of Sweden, considering a proposal to permit women ministers. Two years ago the Swedish Parliament recommended ordination of women (at the time, one diehard stormed that he would never confess* to a female because women were notoriously unable to hold their tongues...
...slumped in red-faced solemnity on the platform as delegates hurled all his old arguments back at him. A Lanarkshire mother pleaded that Nye save her two sons from the leukemia that fallout would bring. Frank Cousins himself rose to confess unashamedly that he saw this issue in terms of his six-year-old daughter and favored abolishing the bomb. When Bevan finally took the floor to answer, the hall stirred. "I have probably made more speeches to more people condemning the bomb than anyone else at this conference," he began. "I am as strongly against it as ever...
...Britain began to fight over his identity. The Herald (of Caernarvon, Wales) proudly claimed him as a Welshman. The Herald (of New York City) declared that he was born in Missouri. Stanley had no wish to confess his Welsh illegitimacy, but even less to tell the world that he was a Confederate soldier turned Unionist and a deserter from the Navy to boot. He made Britain his base, left others to fight out the problem...
...Episcopal Mission in Mississippi urges Protestants to commemorate St. Bartholomew's Day with penitence for their own sins against brother Christians. "The state church of England," he suggests, "might ask forgiveness of the free churches for its persecution of them, and the state churches of Lutheran persuasion might confess how far they went astray in their suppression of Anabaptists. The Church of Scotland might contemplate its pressure against dissenting minorities, and the churches of South Africa their sins of the past towards others. New England Congregationalists might pray pardon for their treatment of Quakers, and Friends for their refusal...
Hollywood's only accomplishment in making such pictures as Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, The Left Hand of God and I Confess, he writes, is "exploiting for dollars the sacredness of clerical celibacy, chastity and the seal of the confessional...