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...Angeles, plus an uncle. The black man in both cases was Ted Patrick, 42, a former community-relations consultant for California Governor Ronald Reagan. He now heads a "deprogramming" organization that helps parents recapture children who have taken up with exotic religious sects. Patrick, a church-going Methodist, began heretic hunting as a leader in the FREE COG (Free Our Children from the Children of God) movement, a parents' vigilante group organized to reclaim offspring who joined that authoritarian fundamentalist sect (TIME, Jan. 24, 1972). Now Pat rick claims to have an underground network of deprogrammers throughout...
...says Kieninger, and he dispenses Stelle's secrets by mail to several thousand followers around the U.S. So far, the Stelle Group has signed up only 130 full-fledged members, mostly middle-class Midwesterners like Kieninger himself, including a construction boss, an accountant, engineers and a former Methodist missionary...
MILES COLLEGE, founded in 1900 as a grammar school for the children of the workers and farmers in the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, is the only four-year college within 50 miles of Birmingham that admitted blacks before 1967. Now an open-door, recently-accredited college for black Alabama high school graduates, it educates most of Birmingham's black teachers and civic leaders. All of its top level administrators and all but 30 of its teaching staff are black. One of 90 private black colleges still operating in the United States, Miles has no endowment, but survives entirely on foundation...
...Right to Life chairman, Joe Bowman, was reminded "of the 1857 Dred Scott decision, which said that although he may have a beating heart and a functioning brain and be biologically human, the black man was not a legal person." More mildly, Bishop William Cannon of the United Methodist Church warned: "If this leads to promiscuity and to taking the creation of life lightly, then it is a step backward...
...more persuasive argument makes a distinction between an embryo and a viable fetus-one sufficiently developed to survive outside the uterus. Because of incubators and sophisticated medical techniques, such survival is now possible after 28 weeks. "In this modern day," asserts R. Paul Ramsey, a Methodist and a professor of religion at Princeton University, "viability must be regarded as the equivalent of birth...