Word: deacons
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BORN: Dec. 13, 1949, Augusta EDUCATION: The Citadel, A.B., 1971; U of Georgia, J.D., 1977 FAMILY: Wife, Susie; four children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: Army, 1972-74 OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: P.O. Box 31256, Augusta 30903. Tel.: 706-722-022 The youngest deacon ever at his church, Bell is a firm believer in the role of religion in American life and, as a self-described "independent voice of conservatism," won't relinquish the issue of family values to his Republican opponents. But he promises to put the needs of the redrawn district above partisan politics. Though Bell says...
...like that?" Jack asked, creating a ripple of laughter. Anthony Radziwill, the son of Jackie's sister Lee, served as best man. The vows were the standard Roman Catholic liturgy. Kennedy and Bessette had received permission from a bishop to hold a Catholic ceremony in a Protestant church. The deacon was a Jesuit from the church in New York City where Jackie was baptized, confirmed and mourned. Caroline's husband Edwin Schlossberg, Bessette's sister Lisa and her husband, Senator Kennedy and William Kennedy Smith (John stood by Smith during his rape trial) all read Scripture. Others attending included Victoria...
...miles away. Finally, the county fire department arrived, but by then, Mount Pleasant was lost. As the roof caved in and the steeple crashed to the ground, Linda Lambert glanced over at Sheriff's Deputy Billy Dilworth, a big, quiet man who serves as the church's deacon. There were tears streaming down his cheeks. She thought to herself, "They had labored so for that church...
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE: A nine-bishop panel is meeting to determine whether retired Bishop Walter Righter should be tried for heresy for his ordaining Barry Stopfel,a non-celibate gay, as a deacon. The debate centers on whether the Episcopal church has any sort of doctrine on sexual morality. A decision is expected sometime this week, but for the church, any decision will have serious implications. "The church is in a real lose-lose situation here," says Religion correspondent Richard Ostling. "On the one side, they have a large contingent of conservatives who are morally opposed to ordaining gays or lesbians...
...target for those gigabytes of scorn is the last hurrah of Republican Senator Alan Simpson, 64, the deacon of U.S. immigration law, who is retiring this December after 18 years in Congress. Simpson, who sponsored a major reform of U.S. immigration rules in 1986, has some further fine-tuning in mind. What has businessmen so riled up is provisions in Simpson's 200 plus-page immigration package that would sharply curtail the number of foreign skilled and professional workers who can enter the U.S. on employment visas each year. Those in the technology business charge that at best the cutback...