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I've found an interesting article on Lexis/Nexis from 1982 - how much can I post? Here's a taste:


Copyright 1982 The Washington Post
The Washington Post

March 28, 1982, Sunday, Final Edition
SECTION: Style; Colman McCarthy; H15
LENGTH: 769 words
HEADLINE: Keeping Pacifists Out of Arms' Way
BYLINE: Colman McCarthy

BODY:
A speech of erratic ferocity was delivered the other day by Secretary of the Navy John Lehman. He was in Philadelphia to help dedicate a religious center called "The Chapel of Four Chaplains."

Lehman dutifully delivered the standard lines of patriotic gush--"America is the chief hope of Western Judeo-Christian civilization"--and he was the proper Pentagon militarist in portraying the Soviets as godless fiends. But the tone of his speech became fanatical when he attacked some of the religious leaders who are currently straining church-state relations with their talk of disarmament. Their "fashionable pacifism," said Lehman, "cannot and will not lead to peace."

To him, "these few uninformed and overly idealistic religious leaders" are threatening budget priorities "to the disfavor of national defense . . . "

Quoting the Bible and talking like a disciple of James Watt ("My religious beliefs provide vital inspiration to my efforts"), Lehman wants "this danger contained. We must demonstrate that our deepest and most profound religious beliefs and values allow us to say--no, they demand that we say--that we are determined to arm our nation so that freedom will not be crushed."

Lehman's worry is the historical one that unnerves all governments when priests and prophets act up. Kings and presidents from Nebuchadnezzar to Nixon have used the clergy to extend their temporal power. When the threads of politics and religion are snipped by a dissident Amos, Thomas More or Archbishop Romero, the state banishes or slays.

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