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Graham added that the allegedly racially-motivated evictions were part of a "pattern that's going on across the country, but the urgency and scope" of this case makes it "particularly shocking...
...much of the argumentation skirts the core questions: What is the political line of secular groups that receive Protestant funding? Do the churches take enough responsibility for the political activities of these groups? Have in-house church programs and pronouncements shown a leftist pattern? The situation is complex, but there is some fire behind the acrid smoke. Items...
...fact channeled material goods to the Viet Nam regime in order to help peasants. While that is the only way to operate in the totalitarian country, N.C.C. statements consistently ignore the fact that the "new economic zones" it supports are part of an oppressive political pattern. Churches would never be so shortsighted in treating, say, South Africa...
Many of the Protestant agencies now under attack do not seem to be greatly concerned with that threat. Next week the United Methodist Reporter, the church's most influential newspaper chain, will begin reporting on its own exhaustive N.C.C. investigation; among other things, it found an overwhelming pattern of left-wing political bias in hundreds of N.C.C. political statements over the past five years. Even James Wall of the liberal Christian Century magazine says council staffers often supply answers "filled with romantic revolutionary rhetoric. Mistakes of the left are either not seen or, as one person...
...only works, but works in reverse as well. Thus even a small percentage increase in total energy consumption could lead to an explosion in demand for OPEC oil-one far greater than most analysts consider possible today. If so, the market would be simply repeating what was a pattern of the 1970s...