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...Confession does not identify the United Presbyterian Church as a pacifist group...
...have been informed that military personnel and employees of defense industries have been advised that adoption of the subject Confession will jeopardize the security clearance of members of the Presbyterian Church...
What happened was this. The Presbyterian Church in May completed a nine-year process of revising its confessional standards. Under the American equivalent of the Scottish Barrier Act (which guards against hasty ecclesiastical legislation by requiring that changes in church law be approved by a General Assembly, then be sent down to the presbyterians for their approval, and finally be approved by the next annual General Assembly), what is called "The Confession of 1967" was presented to the General Assembly meeting in Boston in May, 1966. It included a phrase that urged the pursuit of peace, "even at risk...
...April of 1967 Mr. Thomas D. Morris, Assistant Secretary of Defense, sent the following memorandum on the "Proposed Presbyterian Confession of 1967" to the Secretaries of the Military Departments...
...MERL L. GALUSHA Mt. Lebanon United Presbyterian Church Pittsburgh...