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...Mondale and white students from a segregated Baptist academy got into angry shoving matches. Mondale got a helpful introduction from Tupelo Mayor James Caldwell, who said of him, "He doesn't have to talk about his beliefs. He practices them. He doesn't have to talk about prayer in school. He prays at home." But when a questioner described the Democratic platform as "antireligion," Mondale replied, "I have my faith, and it's my whole being. What makes America great is that our faith is between ourselves, our conscience and our God. We don't have...
Still, the most probing analysis last week of the dilemma facing public officials on religious issues came from Kennedy and Cuomo. Speaking at a New York City meeting of Coalition of Conscience, a Democratic political action group, the Senator argued that on issues such as abortion, school prayer and homosexuality "the proper role of religion is to appeal to the free conscience of each person, not the coercive rule of secular law." He warned that "we cannot be a tolerant country if churches bless some candidates as God's candidates-and brand others as ungodly or immoral." The logical...
...Democrat who hopes to wrest away his seat, met in the second of four scheduled television debates. It was a battle of the Old South vs. the New. Hunt is North Carolina's popular, two-term Governor, an earnest, mild-mannered and moderate Democrat. He favors voluntary school prayer and a sustained military buildup, but supports civil rights and a woman's right to abortion. As Governor he has attracted $13 billion in new business investment, added 207,000 new jobs and raised educational standards through a series of reforms. In that evening's debate, Helms claimed...
...worried government put a ban into effect in 21 black urban areas on all indoor meetings called to criticize or even discuss government policy; outdoor meetings on such subjects have long been banned. Nonetheless, a large crowd gathered at Soweto's Regina Mundi Church for a prayer meeting to commemorate the death of Steven Biko, a black student leader who died in a South African prison seven years ago. Police broke up the meeting with whips and tear gas. The next day in Soweto they shot and killed a black man who threw a gasoline bomb at a police...
After listening to both candidates, B'nai B'rith delegates voted unanimously to oppose all forms of organized prayer in high schools, and called on Government to be "neutral" in religious matters. In an obvious swipe at Laxalt's letter, the resolution also voiced "opposition to attempts to claim 'God's authority' in campaigns for political office." Many of the delegates contended that Reagan had stirred new fears at least among Jews, who, as members of a religious minority, are extremely sensitive to the possibility of Government interference in religion...