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Israeli secularists, who far outnumber religious adherents, often attack this quid pro quo. "Religious law infringes on my basic freedoms," says a Hebrew University student. "Just because the religious community doesn't want to ride buses on the Sabbath doesn't give them the right to prohibit others from riding...
...Pope Paul VI is a heretic. Placing a crucifix at the base of the courtroom microphone, the abbe told the court that Isorni had falsified the New Testament. ("Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him," according to John 5:18, because he had not only broken the sabbath, but said that God was his father.) Absolution of the Jewish people would amount to a contradiction of Catholic dogma, De Nantes asserted, concluding: "I have only defended my faith and my church...
...Mills' election opponent, Mrs. Judy Petty, 31, the first serious Republican contender for his seat in years. An attractive divorcee who worked as an aide to the late Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, she promised not to mention the incident in her campaigning. But in a district where voters take the Sabbath so seriously that Mrs. Petty's campaign manager has refused to let her stump on Sundays, the damage has already been done...
...Israel, Kissinger's plane was scheduled to land at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion Airport a half-hour before the Jewish Sabbath was over. Israeli protocol officers advised the blue and white jet to circle somewhere until the holy day officially ended...
...Ford misjudged both Americans in general and American churchmen in particular. Evangelist Billy Graham applauded the Sabbath pardon, but he was a decided exception. Conservative or liberal, Christian or Jew, most other religious thinkers deplored Ford's action on grounds of theology as well as simple justice...