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Fifty-three percent of these convictions were of Jehovah's Witnesses, the sect which contends that all its members are ministers of the Gospel. About 8% were what Selective Service calls "rationalists," i.e., men who based their objection on what they had figured out for themselves and not out of religious teaching...
When historians of the Supreme Court begin to write of the decade since 1932, they will be forced to give many a page to the antics of Jehovah's Witnesses. This little sect of religious zealots has caused the Court more headaches than any other group, and now it may lead the Court to the rarest of all judicial acts--reversal of an earlier decision. Last Monday the nine Justices announced that they would hear a second case involving Witnesses who refuse to salute the flag in public schools, and the history of the famous 1940 "Flag-Salute Case" indicates...
...Emir of Trans-Jordania issued a public statement: "The Senusi (secret Moslem sect) are the rightful overlords of Libya by virtue of ancestral ties and religious leadership. We Arabs never forget the national war of the Senusi against Italy...
...right to get birth control information is a civil liberty as important as freedom of the press. It is not fair that one Christian sect should be able to deny another a civil liberty that it wants. Yet that is the situation in Massachusetts today. By passing this referendum simple justice will be meted out to every religious creed. Those who want birth control advice could receive it at the many city clinics, and those who think it is immoral can continue to think so. Fairness to the less financially privileged and freedom of conscience are the core of this...
...consolidate the nation. "In a sense he might be considered to be the father of Indian nationalism." In addition, he had other remarkable traits -among them "his boundless curiosity and his search for truth. He seems to have been convinced that truth was no monopoly of any religion or sect, and he proclaimed that his avowed principle was one of universal toleration in religion...