Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...American Way," Doug Marlette says, when asked to describe his politics. Pressed to be more specific, he steadfastly refuses to label himself. "Labels have sort of lost their meaning," he says. "I feel that my values and attitudes came out of going to Sunday school in Magnolia Street Baptist Church. I believe what they taught me, I believe what they taught me in civics class in Maddox Junior High School in Laurel, Miss. I took them seriously." Then he adds, musingly, "I don't know whether they intended that...
...himself a Southerner. "This is something that annoys my readers," he says. "Particularly when they don't like my cartoons. They'd like to be able to say that I came down from the outside, an 'outside agitator.' My newspaper likes to stress that I was raised Southern Baptist." It also helps that Marlette's liberalism is not libertinism; not the "anything goes" of the East Side limousines, but a belief in the dignity of man. "I don't like liberals much," Marlette says. "Although it's sort of an uncomfortable position because liberals generally like my cartoons. But their...
...conservative evangelicals undoubtedly hurt Jimmy Carter. According to an ABC News/Harris survey, Carter won the white Baptist vote in 1976, 56% to 43%, and lost it this time, 56% to 34%. The Harris analysis indicates that the shift in the evangelical vote accounted for two-thirds of Reagan's ten-point margin over Carter. Other experts do not agree; they claim that the New Right had its main effect in state and local elections where certain targeted liberal candidates were already in serious trouble...
...what does one do for the rest of one's life?--the simple plan can be carried out in less time than it takes to vote for Ronald Reagan. Here was the dilemma for the Baptist pastors who filtered into Massachusetts and other progressive states, ministers with just a handful of parishioners and tract racks brimming with yellowing brochures. The heathen--Jews prostitutes, homosexuals, Democrats, feminists, intellectuals, evolutionists, rock groups, Communists--weren't too hot on the Simple Plan. But after you've been saved yourself, the only meaningful thing to do is to help others save themselves...
Speaker McCormack a resident of Jamaica Plain, had been hospitalized in New England Baptist Hospital since September 9 with low blood pressure and pneumonia and was later transferred to the Eastwood at Dedham Nursing Home where he died...