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...flawed, that his sense of priorities is unrealistic and that some of his tactics are counterproductive. As he has often done in domestic affairs, he sometimes seems to think that enunciating a great goal is the same as doing something about it. Is Carter simply an idealist, applying Southern Baptist religiosity and New World populism to the complexities of diplomacy? Or is he shrewd, even Machiavellian, bobbing here and weaving there in order to camouflage his pursuit of some well-wrought global goals? Or is he, perhaps, merely inexperienced and naive...
...Sunday school gospel that he still teaches occasionally at Washington's First Baptist Church, his belief in the perfectibility of man, his deeply moving experience of witnessing Southern whites coming to terms with blacks, and his own triumph in surmounting enormous odds to reach the White House. He has called for the U.S. to "set a standard of morality" and to pursue policies based on "decency and optimism...
...least some professors are exercised about public apathy. Says Dr. Jim Ranchino, a political scientist at Arkansas' Ouachita Baptist University: "Our society has gone wild. Nobody has convinced the American people that we have any serious problems. There is no direction, no planning. People are living like tomorrow is going to be just like today. But it is not going...
After the service. Cousin Hugh spoke harshly about the people running Plains Baptist. He described them as "anti-Carter, anti-black and full of hate." A woman who played piano for the Bottsford service was more benign. Said she: "I have no animosity toward anyone in the other church. I pray for them, and I pray...
...divisions in the Plains Baptist Church became critical when black Preacher Clennon King challenged its whites-only membership policy late in the presidential campaign. When the deacons panicked and canceled services the Sunday before Election Day, Pastor Bruce Edwards told reporters that the eleven-year-old policy was "immoral and sinful" and that deacons routinely used the term niggers. At President-elect Carter's urging, the church later voted reluctantly to admit blacks. But an Old South faction, which disliked both Edwards' remarks and the fact that he had adopted a Polynesian boy, maneuvered to fire the pastor...