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...PHILIP A. JOHNSON, National Lutheran Council...
...Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.-signed an opinion that "it would be most unfortunate for a major church to press its own interests in a way that would threaten the strengthening of our basic educational system." Dr. Robert E. Van Deusen of the National Lutheran Council told the House subcommittee that a religious group with its own high school system "should provide the necessary financial support, thus insuring its own continuing autonomy and freedom." The Association of Reform Rabbis of New York announced: "We uphold the President's definite stand against the extension...
Question 7 (Louis de Rochemont Associates). The hammer and sickle is a crooked sort of cross, but on it many millions of Christian martyrs hang. This picture-sponsored by the same Lutheran groups and produced by the same film company that made Martin Luther, one of the memorable religious films of the '50s-compresses in one patiently detailed and quietly harrowing episode the essential facts about the most massive, subtle and effective persecution in Christian history...
...member of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and a Lutheran seminarian, I might say that the Rev. Dr. Oswald C. J. Hoffmann does not speak for "us Lutherans." Many seminarians and, I'm sure, many pastors in parish work feel that our parochial schools should receive federal aid. Since we support public education with our tax money, it is only fair that the federal government aid our church schools...
...Lutheran, I believe that the separation of church and state is a necessity in our heterogeneous society. However, I also believe it is unfair to tax those persons as heavily for the support of public schools who, through their own convictions, are spending considerable sums to send their children to private schools. Therefore, I would propose that federal aid to education be made only to the public schools but that those parents who send their children to private schools receive a federal income tax reduction equal to the amount per child of the federal subsidy to the public schools...