Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year ago that young Romney, just graduated from Michigan State and on his way to Harvard Law School, began dating Ronna, whose sister was working as a Romney Girl in the Governor's reelection campaign. Ronna, whose father is a Presbyterian, had been raised by her mother as a Roman Catholic. She quit college in 1963 to marry Robert Connolly, a Catholic. She divorced him a year and a half ago after the birth of a son, and resumed her education at Oakland University. Last November she was baptized into the Mormon Church a month before she and Scott...
...observation about moral superiority and the self in the world that needs reconciling and adjusting requires that the Presbyterian Church be described before describing its confessional call to deal with race, peace, poverty...
...Presbyterian Church's membership is largely white, suburban, middle class to affluent, well-educated, Republican, establishment-minded and property-conscious. It includes racists, militarists, Birchers, and philanderers; it includes supporters of black power, pacifists and peace workers, philanthropists, and celibates...
There have been signs that the church, or parts of it, mean what they say. Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense, is a Presbyterian elder. Churchmen have gone to him privately and appeared against him publicly to the nation's policy of escalation. Presbyterians have been in Buffalo, Rochester, Louisville, Chicago, Cleveland, Watts, Delano, Port Chicago, Mississippi...
...years ago a prominent Presbyterian layman stated publicly that if Presbyterian ministers didn't stop what he called their "socialism," that laymen would stop contributing funds. The layman was reported to have given one million dollars to a right wing organization to make his point. But printed was a public note to the gentleman saying "The Presbyterian Church is not for sale...