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"We have been informed that military personnel and employees of defense industries have been advised that adoption of the subject Confession will jeopardize the security clearance of members of the Presbyterian Church.
In the year following the first approval, several church officers who were in military service asked military legal officers if subscription to the new Confession would affect their security clearances. Some officers, it is reported, ruled that this could create problems for military personnel.
Other individuals and some congregations made similar inquiries at the Department of Defense in Washington. Some of them were opposed to the entire Confession and were using the security argument to develop support for their position; others were for the Confession but opposed to this statement; others felt torn in...
In April of 1967 Mr. Thomas D. Morris, Assistant Secretary of Defense, sent the following memorandum on the "Proposed Presbyterian Confession of 1967" to the Secretaries of the Military Departments:
"In response to inquiries concerning this Confession, we have, with the advice of the General Counsel's office, informed the questioners that: