Word: marshner
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With this nomination, the Administration has effectively said, 'Goodbye, we don't need you.' " That was the angry complaint of Mrs. Connaught Marshner, head of the National Pro-Family Coalition, at a Washington press conference, where luminaries of the New Right launched an all-out attack on Ronald Reagan's first nominee to the Supreme Court. Armed with accusations against Sandra O'Connor's record in the Arizona state senate-some of them gleaned from records, others based on insinuation and surmise-the critics charged that she is soft on touchstone social problems like...
...Marshner disagreed, saying. "The only way to square Christian ideals to a tolerance of abortion is to say that the New Testament is outdated." Pro-abortion legislators are "claiming [they know] better than the New Testament writers what God wanted...
McAteer and co-panelist Bill Marshner, professor of theology at Christendom College, argued that legislators should base laws on issues like abortion on "fundamental" biblical interpretations...
Arguing that Marshner sees today's society and religion much more static than it is. Deats asked if "a living God" should "stop talking to Christians" in spite of widespread societal changes since Biblical times...
Quoting the Bible to support religious groups' political activity. Marshner said. "When the righteous are in power, the people rejoice" because "basic truths don't change...