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VOL. 63, NO. 1 January-February 1968r,, 25 CENTS IVIAGA2 tELIGIOILIS FREEDOM WILLIAM H. HACKETT Assignment: Washington An interpretative report of church, state, and politics on Capitol Hill. ■ While a Federal court judge was ruling ventions are being urged by some to follow out a protest against the 1967 Christmas the "Federal plan," which means to leave stamp carrying a picture of Mary and the the door open to financial aid for parochial Christ child, a move was under way for schools. authorization of a stamp honoring another religious hero. This year marks the three- ■ The Jewish War Veterans of the United hundredth anniversary of Father Jacques States, whose legislative director is Marquette's exploration. Congress author- Felix M. Putterman, have sent a strongly ized the Father Marquette Tercentenary worded resolution to Congress on separa- Commission, and Members of Congress are tion of church and state. The resolution being urged to pressure the Postmaster says that the First Amendment "is seri- General to approve a Father Marquette ously weakened by the flow of Federal funds stamp. into parochial school systems," and points out that religious practices are still car- ■ Congress continues, year after year, ried out in some schools despite rejection to pigeonhole bills making Columbus Day of the Becker Amendment. a legal holiday, but the day does not go "As a religious people," the resolu- unnoticed in the Capitol. On the occasion tion states, "we look upon the synagogue, of the last Columbus Day, Congressman Frank church, home, and religious school as a Annunzio presented each Member of Congress proper and legitimate place for the prac- with a medallion commemorating the 475th tice of one's most personal belief." anniversary of Columbus' voyage to the New The organization also urged enactment World. The presentation was made on behalf of judicial review legislation, affording of the Joint Civic Committee of Italian plaintiffs "standing to sue" in litigation Americans of Chicago. over the use of taxpayer funds in sectarian institutions. The National Columbus Day Committee, headed by Mariano A. Lucca, appealed to ■ With the United States Supreme Court each Member of Congress to make his car turning thumbs down on an appeal in the available for a motorcade in Washington on Pennsylvania school bus case, Congress is Columbus Day. The parade caravan ended at still confronted with requests for a more the Holy Rosary church for high mass. definite position on Federal aid for At the Federal Smithsonian Institu- church-controlled schools. tion at Columbus Day ceremonies Vice-Pres- The nation's high court had been in ident Hubert Humphrey was presented with session only one week when it announced the Columbus medal by the ambassador from its refusal to hear an appeal attacking a Italy. Pennsylvania law requiring use of public school buses for transportation of chil- ■ When Congress passed the Elementary dren to their parochial schools. A group and Secondary Education Act, it passed the of Philadelphia suburbanites claimed such buck to the States on the religious issue. busing violated the First Amendment to the Several States are now in the throes of Constitution. In an unsigned order the holding constitutional conventions and Supreme Court dismissed the appeal on the the church-state issue is one of the knotty ground that it did not present "a substan- problems under consideration. These con- tial Federal question." VOLUME 63, NO. 1 JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1968 25 cents Washington a copy LIBERTY D.C. A MAGAZINE OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM EDITOR ARTICLES Roland R. Hegstad ASSOCIATE EDITORS Marvin E. Loewen 8 The Way to Freedom Edward Heppenstall W. Melvin Adams James V. Scully 12 Religion's Biochemical Missionaries Herbert L. Ford ART EDITOR Terence K. Martin 16 When Is a Church a Church? C. Stanley Lowell CIRCULATION MANAGER S. L. Clark 17 Albania v. the Churches FIELD REPRESENTATIVES 19 The Parable of a Pastor Bob W. Brown C. M. Willis Clifford Okuno 20 Anti-Sunday-Law Strategy Forecast Robert W. Nixon CONSULTING EDITORS W. P. Bradley, Neal C. Wilson, M. V. Campbell, 24 The Church's Greatest Need A. G. Daniells R. L. Odom, Cyril Miller, Theodore Carcich Darren Michael 26 Hands Off, Uzzah! John Erhard CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Dr. Jean Nussbaum 27 How Long Did the Early Church Keep W. L. Emmerson Kenneth Holland Sabbath? V. Norskov Olsen C. Mervyn Maxwell Warren L. Johns LEGAL ADVISER FEATURES Boardman Noland EDITORIAL SECRETARY 2 Assignment: Washington William H. Hackett Thelma Wellman LAYOUT ARTIST 4 From the Editor's Desk Alan Forquer 5 "Dear Sir" RELIGIOUS LIBERTY 22 Discount-House Religion Sydney Allen ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA 23 Voices in the Ecumenical Wind Declaration of Principles We believe in religious liberty, and hold that 30 Editorials: Court Rejects Amish Case .. Clergymen Threaten to this God-given right is exercised at its best when Withhold Tax . A Man for All Seasons there is separation between church and state. We believe in civil government as divinely ordained to protect men in the enjoyment of 31 Religion and Politics William Muehl their natural rights, and to rule in civil things; and that in this realm it is entitled to the re- spectful and willing obedience of all. 32 World News We believe in the individual's natural and inalienable right to freedom of conscience: to 34 The Launching Pad C. 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Except for sample copies, papers are sent only on paid subscriptions. We believe that these liberties are embraced in the golden rule, which teaches that a man CHANGE OF ADDRESS OR SUBSCRIPTION CORRESPONDENCE: Please enclose address should do to others as he would have others label from magazine or wrapper. Allow one month for address change. Write: Review do to him. and Herald Publishing Association, Washington, D.C. 20012. JANUARY-FEBRUARY 3 from the editor's desk Hippiedom The Way to Freedom? VERY major American city now has an enclave of them. Unwashed, un- E shod, unkempt, and uninhibited; hallucinating and undulating in mo- tion with their own "disanthropic" universe; purporting to replace the present parasitic order of rot and payola with their psychedelic order of pot and peyote; Turning On with LSD, Tuning In to a hallucinatory world beyond reality, Dropping Out of Society to pursue their own vision of the Holy Grail—they are that bizarre, if not berserk, mod-podge of the New orality called hippiedom. To the nonpsycho, there is pathos in the spectacle of the male hippie sperately seeking confirmation of his manhood while peering through a hairdo that leaves the new acquaintance unsure whether to kiss him or shake ands with him. ( And a bit of humor in the sight of females, who for years have been squirming into foundational confinement for the sake of a dimin- ished silhouette, now flouting their emancipation under the heading of "hippies.") But humor and pathos aside, the hippies raise questions of concern to our society, one of which concerns the relationship of law to freedom. Are they mutually exclusive? "No," says Dr. Edward Heppenstall, director of Theological Seminary ( West Coast), Andrews University, who last summer led a seminary in- vasion of London's hippiedom. "True freedom does not lie in escape from commitment to society, nor in evasion of responsibility to law. Rather, paradoxically, freedom exists only where there is submission to law." For Dr. Heppenstall's fuller appraisal of law and freedom, see page 8. Even love, the ethos of the grand gurus of hippiedom's sawdust trail, is not antithetical to law. Said Christ, "If ye love me, keep my commandments" ( John 14:15 ). "0 that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea" (Isa. 48:18). The hippies, along with more conventional misfits, boast of liberty when they are slaves of selfishness, perverted appetite, licentiousness, drugs.