Religious Split Among 1988 Presidential Hopefuls
AP notes party lines in religion for candidates. Democrats show opposition to church and private school aid and school prayer amendments. Republicans mostly favor such steps. Profiles cover Bush Dole Kemp Haig Robertson duPont Jackson Simon Dukakis Gephardt Gore Babbitt Hart Hart and Hart.
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George Cornell
New York
Albert Menendez
Washington, D.C
Church & State
Menendez
Americans United For Separation of Church and State
High schools honor King with programs on his life
Cedar Rapids Community high schools Kennedy and Washington stage commemorations for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Kennedy blends King’s story with the U S Constitution 200th anniversary in a 9 20 to 10 20 a m program led by Dick Pitner with speakers Donna Oliver and McKenzly Wilson. Washington presents A Testament of Hope readers theater at 9 20 10 30 12 1 and 2 p m with students narrating King’s life to slides and music and a mock interview with Thomas Jefferson about constitutional concepts.
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Martin Luther King Jr
Cedar Rapids
King
Kennedy High School
Dick Pitner
Donna Oliver
Burlington
N.C
McKenzly Wilson
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Washington High School
Carter Bradshaw
Washington
Bradshaw
Montgomery
Ala
Kennedy
Thomas Jefferson
Interchurch talks advance toward pulpit and altar fellowship
Religion notes report a Lutheran United Methodist dialogue team endorsing renewed talks on shared communion and pulpit access. They cite progress on episcopacy and baptism concerns amid church unity efforts.
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Winter Park
Fla
Lutheran pastor appointed assistant to bishop in Kansas Missouri synod
The Rev. Dennis Wright 43 former Cedar Rapids resident named assistant to the bishop of the Kansas Missouri Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America His headquarters will be in Kansas City area with family remaining in Overland Park Kan He is a Washington High School Northwestern Theological Seminary Minneapolis graduate and has taught at Kennedy High School and served several churches including First Lutheran and Lutheran Church of the Resurrection Robins Follows a series of church events including an ASL interpreted Mass at St Jude Catholic Church and healing study at Grace Episcopal Church plus a concert by the Hauskins Family Singers in Robins and two talks by Judy Albert on single parenting at St Matthew s Church Plans for National Marriage Encounter and a Missionaries concert at Hillside Wesleyan Church are noted.
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Simon
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
Massachusetts
Michael Dukakis
Richard A. Gephardt
Missouri
Colorado
Church of the Nazarene
Yale Divinity School
Los Angeles
Princeton University
Frederick H. Borsch
New Jersey
U.S
Knights
Washington
Knights of Columbus
Russell Shaw
U.S. Catholic Bishops
Dennis Wright
Cedar Rapids
Kansas-Missouri Synod
New Evangelical Lutheran Church In America
Robert A. Wright
Dalewood Ave
Wright
Washington High School
Northwestern Theological Seminary
Minneapolis
Kennedy High School
First Lutheran Church
Texas
Lutheran Church of the Resurrection
Overland Park
Kan
Kansas City
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