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Versus the Draft In Welksley, Mass., last week, FBI agents walked through the open door of the local Unitarian-Universalist Church armed with an arrest warrant. The man they wanted was Richard W. Scott, a 20-year-old soldier who had deserted his unit as a war resister, and they had come to the right place to find him. The Rev. Robert Gardiner, with the approval of his congregation, had just granted the youth the ancient right of church sanctuary. It was a symbolic gesture, of course, since neither Scott nor his protectors tried to stop the FBI from taking...
...Square United Methodist Church, which had offered sanctuary to Draft Resister Donald C. Baty. Two Rhode Island draft evaders holed up for four days in Providence's Unitarian Church of the Mediator this month, before police moved in and arrested them. Boston's venerable Arlington Street Unitarian Universalist Church has twice offered similar haven, and three San Francisco churches-one Presbyterian, one Methodist and one Episcopal-have opened their doors to civil disobedients. This year's general assembly of the Unitarian-Universalist Association called on all its churches to offer war resisters "symbolic sanctuary at the time...
...synagogues, that this country can see that the nation is now engaged in actions which are in violation of individual conscience." Soon after the film was shown at the court house, U.S. marshals dragged Robert A. Talmanson, 21, a convicted draft evader, from Boston's Arlington Street Unitarian-Universalist Church. A bloody melee ensued outside the church. Talmanson had gone to the church for sanctuary, an ancient tradition not legally recognized...
...International Friendship League, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the Boston Park Department Office. The Offices of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. The Massachusetts State House, The Unitarian-Universalist Association, The Massachusetts Prison Association, Portia Law School and Calvin Coolidge College all sit on the peak of Beacon Hill. It is a tiny two-block neighborhood and for the most part, the institutions that reside there are devoted to enriching the lot of human beings. "So," says one Beacon St. resident, "how did Calvin Coolhitch Cowitch evah get up heah...
...television newscasting nowadays, everybody's got his own private beat. but NBC's laconic Edwin Newman, 49. is a universalist, the one guy in the shop who is considered au courant on everything...