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...state supreme court. The argument will likely be that traditional tests reflect middle-class white values and so entitle the university to use special means of evaluating minority applicants. Moreover, says Law Dean Richard Roddis: "We are trying to bring people from traditionally excluded groups into the mainstream of legal activities as one way to overcome 200 years of discrimination...
...Jesus Revolution (TIME, June 23) includes preachers of hellfire and promoters of love, fundamentalist Christians, mainstream Protestants, and even some Roman Catholics. Most, however, at least share a common belief in the basic tenets of Christianity: the triune nature of God, the divinity of Jesus Christ, the Gospels as the cornerstone of faith. But some so-called Jesus freaks really subscribe to exotic creeds all their own that to orthodox Christians are close to what used to be called heresy. And not only to traditional churchmen: even many inside the movement look suspiciously on these fellow travelers with Jesus...
Even Shirley Ann Grau's best novel, The Hard Blue Sky, is very casually plotted. But she can write with a poet's concentration and record dialect knowingly. Perhaps The Condor Passes is merely an attempt to join the mainstream-as the South is now supposed to be doing-and to market all that distilled violence nationally. Still, there is richer life in the bayous than in the mainstream. One can only hope that she will soon be back in her old pirogue...
...other local churches of mainstream Protestant denominations have become involved in the homosexual ministry. Several liberal "straight" churches in San Francisco have made a point of offering a haven to homosexuals since 1964. One of them, Glide Memorial Methodist Church, willingly blesses "pledges of commitment" between homosexuals. A California United Church of Christ minister, Tom Maurer, 53, has recently announced, without reprisal, that he is a homosexual; a seminarian in the same denomination who publicly avowed his homosexuality is expected to be ordained next fall. On the other hand, the Rev. Gene Leggett, 36, was recently suspended by Texas Methodists...
...Poltics of Piety In American Protestantism, as in American political parties, the bitterest factional fights are often within denominations rather than between them. A vigorous, angry, conservative rebellion is challenging the liberals who have dominated mainstream Protestant churches almost steadily since the 1920s. The central issues vary from church to church, but they center on three areas of disagreement: strict v. liberal interpretation of the Bible, evangelism v. social action, and a distrust of ecumenism v. an eagerness for church merger. U.S. Episcopalians felt the crunch of disagreement last fall (TIME, Nov. 2), Presbyterians and Methodists more recently. Nowhere...