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Critics of Carter's human rights stance glibly trace his "basic principles and values" back to a Southern Baptist Sunday school outlook. Actually, such moral basics are common to all men of all times; they are found not only in the Bible but in Hindu, Egyptian, Chinese, Norse, Babylonian and Greek texts...
...Carter's sense of morality is no more Southern Baptist than the sun outside my window is Pasadenan. Universal laws deserve universal recognition...
Johnson's activism has made for a turbulent personal life. In Montgomery, Johnson and his family were unwelcome at their neighborhood Baptist church and subjected to threatening letters and telephone calls. Two years ago, Johnson's son Johnny, 27, killed himself with a shotgun. Some friends thought the adopted Johnny's longstanding emotional problems could be traced to harassment by his Montgomery schoolmates...
...oddities after he joined the Army in 1971. He flunked his first rifle-shooting test but eventually qualified as an infantry sharpshooter (the middle ranking between marksman and expert) with the M-16 rifle. Early in his Army service, for unknown reasons, he left Judaism to become a fundamentalist Baptist after attending hand-clapping revival meetings...
Brother Jimmy hugs and kisses his friends in public, and so, on occasion does his sister Baptist Faith Healer Ruth Carter Stapleton. At Manhattan's New York New York discotheque, she showed up for the 35th birthday party of Freelance Writer Dotson Rader who is researching an article about her for the New York Times Magazine. Stapleton; 46, danced a bit and inspired some affectionate smooching from the guest of honor, who finds her "one of the most beautiful women I've ever met." Stapleton also spent part of the evening in the disco vestibule with Rader...