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...They are much less of a problem now than they were two or three months ago. The poll results show a strong trend toward acceptance of my religious views. There is a general realization that they are personal and that the Baptist Church, perhaps more strongly than any other denomination, believes in complete separation of church and state...
Inside the white-steepled Plains Baptist Church, where he has taught Sunday school for the better part of two decades, he took note of the swollen attendance-70 men and women, compared with a usual 22 men. He welcomed the visitors, including a number of journalists, among them TIME'S Stanley Cloud. Apparently referring to the press, Carter quoted the New Testament, 1 John 4: "They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them." But Carter stressed that the gathering would not be turned into a political sideshow: "Our only purpose...
...average person with whom Christ lived would not speak to those of a different color or religion. Do we do the same thing?" he asked in the church that he and his family vainly tried to integrate nearly 15 years ago. "Quite often, if we go into a Baptist church in the South, there's a social and economic elite. We're the prominent people in town. There's a tendency to think that because I've been accepted by God, I'm better than other people." He suggested that what he termed a humbling...
...Philadelphia City Councilman Louis Johanson said that he would not vote for Carter under any circumstances. But he did-after his fallen favorite, Scoop Jackson, asked him to. By then the still-cynical Johanson had heard Brown address the delegation and cracked that "the difference between a babbling Baptist and a jumping Jesuit isn't that much." One reluctant Manhattan delegate, Harold Jacob, criticized Carter for not making clear where he stands on Israel and other issues (like emigration from the Soviet Union) of concern to Jews, but he softened after the nomination of Fritz Mondale...
Less susceptible to persuasion was a union business agent from Pennsylvania. Said he: "The Southern Baptist thing still bothers a lot of people, including me. And Carter is an amateur surrounded by amateurs." But later he, too, softened: "At heart I'm a Democrat." Many more labor delegates shared the mood of Jim Mahoney, executive vice president of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO: "There will be enthusiasm for Carter. AFL-CIO President George Meany wants to go all the way for the Democratic ticket, and we're starting now, not two months from...