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Unitarians have no formal creed setting forth specific teachings on faith and morals, and the Chicago survey is one of the first to reflect with any accuracy the real convictions of church members...
...display his big brotherhood. One sequence shows Negro sharecroppers singing a white-eyed hallelujah number reminiscent of those '40s films that pretended to liberalize but patently patronized. Two hours of such cinematic clichés make the viewer intolerant of everyone in the film, regardless of race, creed or color...
...many Republicans, however, Romney's party creed is more important than his religious doctrine. Wisely, perhaps, the Michigander shied away from aligning himself with any party faction. "I'm just a Republican," he said, "and, by golly, anyone who is a Republican is a Republican, as far as I'm concerned." Because it was not ever thus, Goldwater fans greeted Romney in Phoenix with signs reading ROMNEY WOULD RATHER SWITCH THAN FIGHT and REAGAN FOR PRESIDENT. Goldwater, who was conveniently in Washington, said there that he still had not forgiven Romney for his 1964 defection...
Crucible Test. Disheartened as he was to hear the jury declare Baker a thief, tax evader and conspirator, Williams could not-and did not-complain. The trial confirmed the very creed that drives and goads him. "The Sixth Amendment gave every accused the right to have the assistance of counsel for his defense," says Williams. "The framers did not say every accused except gamblers, thieves and robbers...
...Harvard CO's are members of religious sects traditionally opposed to war--Quakers, Mennonites. Jehovah's Witnesses, Brethren, and Seventh Day Adventists, for example. Few, if any, base their conscientious objection on any orthodox creed. Few, if any, have an orthodox conception of God. These are by no means insuperable drawbacks. However the selective service system's attitude toward unorthodox CO claims is probably best characterized as highly suspicious. Harvard CO's must make up for their lack of orthodoxy with the clarity, consistency, and sincerity of their thoughts. And that's where the struggle begins...