Word: unitarianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adams placed the Unitarian-Universalist Association, the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Council of Churches on record in support of a bill which would allow judicial review of the constitutionality of certain federal grants of loans to religious institutions. The bill would give taxpayers the right to challenge federal spending acts...
...charges are based on Davis' civil rights record. While almost every other minister and priest in Washington was encouraging the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, Davis denounced it because "our way of life is threatened" by demonstrations that challenge rule by law. After Unitarian Minister James Reeb was killed in Selma, Davis declared that those who organized the demonstrations there shared in the guilt for his death. Davis was one of the few prominent Washington clergymen who refused to sign a pledge to open membership of their churches to anyone regardless of race. National City is only nominally...
...have the facts." After four days of testimony last week, the all-white jury concurred. It took just 95 minutes to acquit three white fellow citizens of the murder of James J. Reeb, a white Unitarian minister from Boston who was clubbed to death in the Alabama city last March after participating in civil rights demonstrations...
...half a dozen modest bars but few other entertainment facilities. To amuse themselves, Los Alamos residents have formed a disproportionately large number of social clubs (which concentrate on such specialized activities as bird watching, chess and classical music), also hike, ride-200 families own horses-and read extensively. Says Unitarian Minister Robert Lehman: "It is a self-conscious model town where such sin as exists is pretty dreary...
...This," said Boston's Dr. Dana Mc Lean Greeley, a Unitarian observer at Vatican II, "is perhaps the greatest day of the council." By an overwhelming vote of 1,997 to 224, Catholic bishops last week approved in principle the text of their declaration on religious liberty. Two days later, the bishops also voted to accept in principle the text of Schema 13, "The Church in the Modern World" - although it, unlike the religious liberty declaration, still faces the prospect of drastic revision...