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...laymen more strict in their religious beliefs than their own ministers? Among U.S. Methodists they are, according to a survey conducted by University of Illinois Professor David E. Lindstrom and released by the Methodist Division of National Missions. Almost all ministers and laymen reported their belief in such basic tenets as the fatherhood of God, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, God's revelation as the Trinity. After that, the differences start cropping...
...Bishop Lord and other Methodist leaders have many times proposed political action at variance with the established national policy, such as recognition of Red China or its admittance to the United Nations. Would you disobey the directives of your religious leaders and remain loyal to the traditional American policy...
...Pilot, Boston's official Catholic weekly, Bishop Lord's questions were "ridiculous," and to show why, the paper addressed a few contentious questions of its own to a possible Methodist candidate. Samples...
...light of the traditional racial segregation long practiced and still mightily supported in Methodist churches in the United States, can you be relied upon to carry through the Supreme Court decisions recently made on this topic? Can you serve with Negroes in your Cabinet...
...famous discipline which regulates Methodist teaching protests against Catholic teaching. Would you in public office be required to protest or suppress Catholic teaching as directed in this document? The moral, concluded The Pilot: "Anyone can play this game, if he doesn't mind getting his hands dirty...