Word: rev
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...orientation? Isn't it time for the state to acknowledge "life partners" and give them all the legal and social benefits others have? And if any of these life-partner relationships prove to be less than lifelong, the divorce proceedings could be the same as for married couples. (The Rev.) Frederick J. Hanna Baltimore, Maryland...
Landers will replace outgoing President Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame...
...pursuing the possibility that the fires were set by white hate groups. Instead, the ministers charge, they, their families and their congregations have been subjected to harsh interrogation, lie-detector tests and harassment at their homes and jobs. In one instance, a 17-year-old female member of the Rev. Algie Jarrett's Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Bolivar, Tennessee, was taken out of a classroom by an FBI agent and questioned so roughly that she broke down in tears. Says Jarrett: "He tried to make her say something that wasn't true...
...most cases the lines of inquiry with regard to white supremacists are not being followed by any of the authorities," charges the Rev. Mac Charles Jones, associate general secretary for racial justice of the National Council of Churches, who has visited dozens of burned-out churches over the past three months. "The questioning has been about problems in the churches, about the pastors, about the churches' money or insurance. That was the first line of inquiry, and sometimes it has been the only...
...hundreds of agents from the AFT, FBI and state agencies have been chasing after scapegoats rather than real culprits. The issue surfaced at a hearing last month by the House Judiciary Committee in testimony from witnesses as diverse as Joseph Lowery of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Rev. Earl W. Jackson Jr. of the Christian Coalition. But their charges came only after several high-ranking officials from the Department of Justice, the FBI and the ATF denied that they had received any complaints about the focus of the investigations...