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...Washington last week, Attorney General Rogers moved to place protection of voting rights firmly "within the established judicial framework" by proposing an alternative to the registrar device. Rogers' plan: federal district courts would be authorized to appoint voting referees to certify qualified voters in federal, state and local elections who may have been deprived of their right to vote by local officials. Obvious advantages of the referee proposal: unlike the registrar plan that applied to federal elections only, it would apply to all elections; a referee need not stop at registration but would be able to follow a complaint...
...year-old "Table of Kindred and Affinity" in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer is still the basic framework of Britain's complex marriage and divorce laws. Adapted from John Calvin's zealous compilation of Mosaic laws and medieval mores, it stipulates who may not marry whom...
...Each House is a natural forum for religious discussion," declared Rev. James Blanning. To relieve the Masters of an added burden, the students themselves might arrange invitations to speakers and seminar schedules, he said. "We want to work more closely within the University's framework without trying to ram anything down anybody's throat," Blanning stated...
...those who do become Christians are not likely to be superficial ones. "They're no fools," says Schaeffer. "When they make a decision, they possess the intellectual framework to make it in. We have had to solve the most unlikely problems, and the Lord has even helped us in preventing certain suicides. But religion isn't a crutch for kids or psychos. Religion is the universal truth. It is irrational to think that watertight doors exist between religion and intellectual thinking. A step of faith is no step in the dark...
...other fields. Young Life is not a teen-age church at all. It's a recruiting program for the church. I am sure we are not narrow unless the Apostles' Creed is narrow. Some of our critics want to drag us into the old static framework. If that were done, the Young Life campaign wouldn't work any better than what they are doing. Far too many pastors talk about daffodils and robin redbreast. We believe it is sinful to bore kids...