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Though Catholics dominate in most anti-abortion groups, the campaign has gone well beyond sectarian boundaries. The California Mobilization for the Unnamed is headed by an agnostic Jew. The chief of the Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life is a Methodist, Dr. Fred Mecklenburg. The Rev. Charles Carroll, an Episcopal priest who is chaplain to the University of California Medical School at San Francisco, says his involvement is a natural outgrowth of his other liberal beliefs. "Men who have been with me in Selma and who opposed war with me and have known me to speak out against capital punishment could...
...been wearing his ring since Christmastime, and Eddie's curriculum vitae (he was once one of Nader's Raiders) has been served up in plentiful quantity in the press. The day will be June 12. The place: the White House. The minister: the Rev. Edward Latch, Methodist chaplain of the House of Representatives. The couple will spend the summer in Manhattan, where Eddie has a temporary job, then go back to Harvard for his final year...
...State Department has already protested on behalf of Americans who are being expelled, including three Methodist missionaries and a Roman Catholic priest. But deportation is only one of the government tactics. Last week, South Africa's leading black clergyman, the Right Rev. Alpheus Zulu, Anglican Bishop of Zululand, was arrested at a church center outside Johannesburg and questioned at a police station for hours. He was finally charged with failure to have with him the passbook required of all blacks, but refused to pay a $7 fine and instead demanded the right to appear in court. Bishop Zulu...
Leawood has three Protestant churches (Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian), one Roman Catholic church and no synagogues. Perhaps 3% of the population are Jewish. There are few black families. Once deeds in Leawood forbade resale to Negroes, Jews-or Arabs. Now Leawood gets nearly the same results by defter means: a local ordinance bars For Sale signs on houses, and Leawood brokers can easily avoid showing to someone they consider undesirable. Tom Leathers remembers that a couple of years ago, Bobby Bell, the Kansas City Chiefs' great linebacker, wanted to buy in Leawood. Bell is black. Leathers telephoned a member...
...different approach has been used by the United Methodist Church. Its Board of Missions yanked a $10 million investment portfolio out of First National City Bank of New York when that bank and nine others extended a $40 million line of credit to South Africa. The women's division of the board sold $400,000 in Dow Chemical stock to protest the "moral irresponsibility" of the company's napalm...