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...least of the political curiosities in this year of the urban age, is that six of the seven men raised up to challenge Richard Nixon come out of small-town America. Only Teddy Kennedy, a child of privilege, does not know the sulfuric terror of a tiny Methodist Sunday school, the hard-penny economics of a paper route, or the ecstasy of being a state tuba champion...
...United Methodist Church also had been involved in a sizable aid program for blacks and other minorities before the manifesto, but has since voted an additional $4,000,000 to fund various minority community efforts. The $400,000 disbursed so far, however, has gone mostly to projects closely related to the church. Black Methodists, among other churchmen, "used B.E.D.C. as a threat," says Calvin Marshall. "They said to their churches, 'Deal with us, or you'll have to deal with them...
...manifesto has had other unintended results. The black church itself has split over Forman's tactics, which point inevitably toward black separatism. B-shop Stephen Spottswood of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church has attacked the manifesto, while the National Committee of Black Churchmen has served as a channel for funds to B.E.D.C. And indirectly, Forman gave the Jewish Defense League its push into prominence: the league's first widely publicized action was its unasked-for "protection" of a New York synagogue supposedly threatened by Forman-like black disruptions...
...Methodist Paul Ramsey, Professor of Religion at Princeton and one of the top Protestant ethicists in the U.S., protests the aborting of such abnormal fetuses as an unjustified taking of human life. But he does not think moral men can avoid the problems of population and genetic crises. Indeed, he urgently recommends that society develop an "ethics of genetic duty." The right to have children can become an obligation not to have them, Ramsey asserts; it is shocking to him that parents will refuse genetic counseling and take the "grave risk of having defective children rather than remain childless." Dead...
Perhaps the most crucial problem dealt with in the essays is whether the young fetus is "tissue," as is often argued by those favoring abortion, or "human life," as abortion foes contend. One line of reasoning offered by Princeton Ethicist Paul Ramsey, a Methodist, is pointedly modern. Ramsey contends that science itself now offers evidence of very early "human" characteristics in the fetus, such as discernible brain waves at eight weeks. The findings of genetics, says Ramsey, suggest a much earlier date. Since the individual's unique genetic code, or genotype, is established at the moment of fertilization...