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Carter, who joined Edwards in a successful effort to revoke the 1965 rule, no longer belongs to the Plains congregation and refused comment. His cousin Hugh, a deacon of the church, said that he felt sure the President was "very deeply hurt." Miss Lillian telephoned Edwards to tell him she was "broken-hearted...
...people, her stamina, her inner strength." Later at the Women's Prison, inmates greeted the new priest with hugs and kisses. "Maybe I can make it too," one said. As the diocese's institutional chaplain, Means will have priestly duties similar to those she had as a deacon for the past two years, except that she can now celebrate the entire Communion service...
...argued so violently over this that they even considered divorce, but "when I found out that he was only afraid that I would be hurt, I understood." She took courses at Catholic and Disciples of Christ seminaries in town and has continued privately directed studies. After being ordained a deacon in 1974, she was assigned to All Saints...
...RELIGION. During the primaries, Scoop Jackson criticized the Baptist deacon for "wearing his religion on his sleeve." The attack was unfair. Despite jokes that he was taking his initials too seriously, Carter usually talked about his personal beliefs only when asked. But he did so with a candor and self-assurance that was unnerving to some, including Protestants, who were unfamiliar with the forthright traditions of Southern evangelicalism...
Whatever King's motives, his stunt rapidly became a politically and emotionally charged issue. Tensions rose among the Plainsmen-and between them and reporters and other outsiders who flocked to the town to observe the events at Jimmy Carter's church. One deacon complained to a reporter: "We don't feel like swapping a church for a President. You have made our Sunday into a spectacle." Another deacon, Carter's cousin Hugh, a state senator, told reporters: "We are trying to work out a solution that will keep our church and our community from disintegrating...