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...movement plans to redouble its efforts for a human-life amendment. "The rulings should stimulate the efforts of those of us advocating a constitutional amendment," says the Rev. Jerry Falwell, leader of the Moral Majority. In St. Louis this week, the bells of Roman Catholic, Baptist, and Missouri Synod Lutheran churches will peal at 5 p.m. each day to show support for the measure...
...climax of the nationally televised debate, which lasted nearly five hours, the bishops, priests and lay delegates to the General Synod rejected, 338 to 100, a proposal that the church endorse unilateral disarmament. The alternative pro-deterrence motion that carried the day, 387 to 49, was offered by the Bishop of Birmingham, Hugh Montefiore...
...General Synod gives cautious approval to nuclear deterrence
...This debate is about the end of the world and about how we may best delay it." So said Stuart Blanch, the Archbishop of York, last week as the Church of England became the latest denomination to struggle with the morality of nuclear deterrence. British clergy judged the General Synod's deliberations to be the church's most important debate on public policy since World War II. The meeting occurred in Church House, adjacent to Westminster Abbey, where Parliament met in 1941 after German bombers had damaged the House of Commons...
...speech to the synod, Baker attacked as a fallacy "the belief that mutual nuclear deterrence is a reasonably stable condition and likely to remain so." On the contrary, he said, "the overwhelming evidence is that it is becoming less stable year by year, and so less plausible as a means of keeping the peace...