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Members of the university community, it seems to me, ought to respond by channeling cash to such groups as the "Committee of Responsibility," 131 State St., Boston. This is a tax-exempt national organization which is bringing some of the more seriously injured Vietnamese children to this country for surgery. Although many of us are convinced that the Vietnam situation calls for much more radical steps than hospital action. I think that all of us ought to be willing at least to do that much. The Rev. H. Paul Santmire Lutheran Chaplain, Harvard-Radcliffe
...church and state in the U.S. is so secure that for millions of Americans the question arises only in the limited context of education." I am one of millions who see the separation of church and state as something yet to be achieved. Religion, operating as a tax-exempt enterprise with some $77 billion in assets, has managed to inject its taboos and mores into statute and ordinance in every state...
...effect. This might take another six months or more. The head of the A.M.A.'s legal department, for one, has already announced that it will argue against the regulation. The closemouthed National Geographic Society has declined to comment, but society officials said earlier that loss of its tax-exempt status might force a cutback in its scientific and educational activities. For the other side, cheers were led last week by former IRS Commissioner Mortimer Caplin, who has long fought to tax the taxexempt. "The business community is elated," he said. "This is a sound decision...
Ever since conscription was adopted by the U.S. during the Civil War, ministers, priests and seminarians have been automatically exempt from military draft. Today, 101,500 men are classified as 4D- exempt as ordained clerics or seminarians. President Johnson's proposed new selective service law, while tightening up on other categories of exemptions, maintains the clerical exception. Nonetheless, the ministry's draft immunity has recently come under attack-chiefly by churchmen themselves...
...recent conference in Washington of "Clergymen and Laymen Concerned About Viet Nam," 500 seminarians signed a petition urging the abolition of their exempt status. In a letter to the New York Times last month, three antiwar clergymen, Lutheran Minister Richard J. Neuhaus, Jesuit Father Daniel V. Kilfoyle and Rabbi Lloyd Tennenbaum, contended that "far from aiding institutionalized religion, the total exemption of clergy does American religion a great disservice." This month, Harvard Divinity School will sponsor a two-day seminar on the issue...