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Seemingly in answer to Day's charges, Molesworth ennumerated several examples of Goldwater's pro-Civil Rights attitude, however. "How many of you know," he asked, "that long before civil rights became an issue, Mr. Goldwater bought pews and baptismal fonts for all the Negroes in his area?"
Selling pews was drummed out of most Protestant churches long ago; yet Gilead Baptist Church in Detroit recently inaugurated a $1.20 weekly payment by each member for the "space" he takes in church. Bazaars are under fire: the Rev. Eugene Carper, director of research and strategy for the Massachusetts Council...
There are people in the pews, dollars in the collection plates, and 65 million Americans who claim to be Protestants. But the outwardly prosperous Christian churches are beset with inner anxiety. Ministers fear that their congregations are no more committed to the church than to the country club. Denominational leaders...
At the church, the goings on were even more tasteless. When the doors were opened at 4:45 a.m., there was a stampede of pilgrims-three-fourths of them women-for the choice pews. These, however, had been chained and locked off by a group known as the Spiritual Daughters...
Outside the Yard, the beginning of a long stream of townspeople were entering St. Paul's Cathedral. Candles were lit, and thirty people, heads bowed against the pews, were praying.