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Both reports relied heavily on evidence supplied by a small, neoconservative group called the Institute on Religion and Democracy, which set off the present furor (see box). Last week the I.R.D. produced a 100-page booklet with more documentation for its sweeping claim that the foreign policy activity of many...
From their shared New York City headquarters, the "God Box" to insiders, the accused Protestant agencies have fought back with a barrage of publicity, defensive polemics and at least 36,000 explanatory packets sent to local church leaders. N.C.C. General Secretary Claire Randall admits no serious mistakes in the council...
In their rebuttals, Protestant church spokesmen have scored some telling points. For instance, it is true that substantial church money went to a Nicaraguan government literacy campaign that was suffused with revolutionary propaganda. But in its show, CBS omitted the fact that the U.S. Government has supported the same program...
But 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...
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...