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...largest U.S. Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, is particularly divided. It opposed school prayers until the annual meeting last June, where conservatives engineered a reversal. But Southern Baptist Minister James Dunn, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs (and thus Washington spokesman for the Southern Baptists along with other groups) is undeterred: "We're opposed to this theologically, because it trivializes prayer into a civil religion." As Dunn sees it, "Kids trapped in a captive audience by compulsory-attendance laws can hardly be considered to be doing anything voluntarily...
Opposition to the new law was sharp and quick. "Patently unconstitutional," declared Paul Hubbert, executive director of the Alabama Educational Association. Earl Potts of the Alabama Baptist Convention objected on different grounds. Said he: "We need prayer in the public schools, but I don't think the government should provide the prayer to be used. What legislators are not realizing is that the government could become more involved in prescribing what its citizens should be doing...
...Depression-hit Laguna artists. A year later, Painter John Hinchman hit on the idea of staging tableaux vivants, similar to the scenes mounted on Sundays in some Victorian parlors. The "stage" was a roped-off section of a street. As Salome holding the severed head of John the Baptist, Margo Goddard, now 71, became the pageant's first nude in 1936 but swore she would never pose again after the organizers forgot to build her a dressing room. "I had to hide behind a neighbor's garage," she recalls. "The stagehands kept running over to peek...
President, Baptist Union of Ireland
...anti-nuclear movement in Christianity spans faiths from Catholicism to the Society of Friends, and this year extended to formerly conservative churches such as the Southern Baptist church, which originally ordained the Rev. Billy Graham...