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Though Catholics dominate in most anti-abortion groups, the campaign has gone well beyond sectarian boundaries. The California Mobilization for the Unnamed is headed by an agnostic Jew. The chief of the Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life is a Methodist, Dr. Fred Mecklenburg. The Rev. Charles Carroll, an Episcopal priest who is chaplain to the University of California Medical School at San Francisco, says his involvement is a natural outgrowth of his other liberal beliefs. "Men who have been with me in Selma and who opposed war with me and have known me to speak out against capital punishment could...
...court majority, Justice Thurgood Marshall noted that the establishment clause requires that "when government activities touch on the religious sphere, they must be secular in purpose, evenhanded in operation and neutral in primary impact." By exempting objectors to all wars, Marshall held, Congress properly focused on individual consciences, not sectarian affiliations. It also avoided administrative chaos, which would have deepened "bitterness and cynicism" among draftees. How, for example, could a draft board fairly decide whether a man's objections to a particular war were matters of conscience or politics? Soon boards would be mired in theological and political debates...
However, this is not to say that in struggling around what they believe to be a correct analysis of issues PL members and friends have always been free from some "mechanical" or "sectarian" errors, but perhaps Landau could point out a political group that has. What is important is that a group undertake a continual self-critical appraisal of its actions: which PL does...
...major issue. They complain that PL's perspective of revolution has led SDS to focus exclusively on a set of demands-such as higher wages and improved conditions for workers-which have only limited relevance to the student movement. And, most of all, they criticize the bitter, sectarian manner in which PL treats those who do not agree with them...
...with their ethnicity, have satisfied this craving for their Catholicness, Jewishness, and Protestantness by founding and supporting their own insular educational institutions. But it is clearly not the purpose of public higher educational institutions, nor of the great American private institutions like Harvard which accept the principle of non-sectarian recruitment, to satisfy this need...