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Forgotten Lessons BY WILLIAM P. HEYNE The Syllabus of Errors BY WALTER C. UTT INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ASSOCIATION
We believe in religious liberty, and hold that this God-given right is exercised at its best when there is separation between church and state.
We belieVe in civil government as divinely ordained to protect men in the enjoyment of their natural• rights, and to rule in civil things; and that in this realm it is entitled to the respectful and willing obe- dience of all. We believe in the individual's natural and inalien- able right to freedom of conscience: to worship or not to worship; to profess, to practice, and to pro- mulgate his religious beliefs, or to change them ac- cording to his conscience or opinions, holding that these are the essence of religious liberty; but that in the exercise of this right he should respect the equivalent right of others. We believe that all legislation and other govern- mental acts which unite church and state are sub- versive of human rights, potentially persecuting in character, and opposed to the best interests of church and state; and therefore, that it is not within the province of human government to enact such legisla- tion or perform such acts. We believe it is our duty to use every lawful and honorable means to prevent the enactment of legisla- tion which tends to unite church and state, and to oppose every movement toward such union, that all may enjoy the inestimable blessings of religious liberty. We believe that these liberties are embraced in the golden rule, which teaches that a man should do to others as he would have others do to him.
INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ASSOCIATION 6840 Eastern Avenue, Takoma Park Washington 12, D.C.
P. C. ROHN, ARTIST NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1960 Vol.. 55, No. 6
50 CENTS WASHINGTON A COPY IBE RPTY D. C. A MAGAZINE OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Editor IN THIS ISSUE ROLAND R. HEGSTAD Associate Editors MARVIN E. LOEWEN W. MELVIN ADAMS FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK 4 Contributing Editors LETTERS 4 DR. JEAN NUSSBAUM, Paris W. L EMMERSON, London FREE ELECTION, SECRET BALLOT 6 KENNETH HOLLAND, Southern United States FORGOTTEN LESSONS 8 WILLIAM P. HEYNE
Foreign Correspondents FOCUS ON FREEDOM 10 E. E. WHITE, Australia; W. DUN- CAN EVA, South Africa; J. J. THE BATTLE FOR FREEDOM 11 DAN SMOOT AITKEN, South America; C. 0. QUANTA CURA WALTER C. UTT FRANZ, Inter-America; C. N. AND THE SYLLABUS 12 ABRAHAM, Southern Asia: G. OF ERRORS ARTHUR KEOUGH, Middle East; GOVERNORS SPEAK OUT FOR RELIGIOUS 14 W. RAECKER, Central Europe; LIBERTY G. D. KING, Northern Europe; C. P. SORENSEN, Far East THE GLORIOUS 50 16 Editorial Secretary HOW BIGOTED CAN A MAN GET AND JEANNE REVERT 20 DONALD F. HAYNES STILL BE LEGAL? Art Editor TERENCE K. MARTIN BLUE LAWS AND THE MAJORITY 22 RICHARD H. UTT Layout Artist RELATION OF RELIGION TO PUBLIC 25 HARRY BAERG EDUCATION Circulation Manager ROY G. CAMPBELL AS THE EDITORS SEE IT 27 WORLD REPORT 29 THROUGH YESTERDAY'S WINDOWS 32
OUR COVER PICTURE: There are some mighty important things going on in that building over there, son—things that concern the freedom of every American. You see, there are three branches of the American Government—executive, legislative, and judicial. The legislative makes the laws for our country. The executive—that's the part the President heads, you know—runs the country. The judicial is headed by the Supreme Court, and it settles arguments between States and between the Federal Government and the States. It protects the constitutional rights of individual citizens like you and me. Sometimes it tells a State that it can't make a certain law, just because of our rights. And it has even told the Federal Government to take another look at the Constitution. In fact, you might say that's freedom talking in that building over there. And, son, people listen. Yes, sir, they listen!
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THANK YOU TO SOMEONE GENTLEMEN: Some years ago I was either a subscriber or at least on the mailing list of this magazine, and the receipt of the recent issue indicates, no doubt, that someone has been responsible for having this magazine sent to me or that it is being sent on J. BYRON LOGAN a complimentary basis. If a subscription has been entered on Donald B. Haynes (left) and Don Yost have more my behalf by someone else, of course I deeply appreciate being than a reading interest in Liberty—they write for it. restored to your mailing list; if not, I shall be pleased to enter a subscription and remit for same. I am thoroughly in accord with the purpose of this excellent publication and shall read the copy sent me with great interest. .s flesh —GEORGE P. WHITMAN, SR., Superior Court Judge, 807 from the etlitor Fulton County Court House, Atlanta 3, Georgia. Two names familiar to long-time readers of LIB- ERTY appear in the magazine this month—Yost and DISGUSTED WITH LIBERTY Haynes. Don Yost (see editorial, page 28) is the son GENTLEMEN: of the late Frank Yost, former editor of LIBERTY Your disgusting political publication hiding under the and associate secretary of the International Religious guise of religious freedom is being sent regularly to me as well Liberty Association. Editor of a programing maga- as all other local attorneys. I do not know who is responsible zine for Christian youth, Don has his office just a few for this prostitution of our most sacred heritage, but I con- doors down the hall. sider the practice even more subversive of human dignity than the "Communist" calling practices so prevalent in the ranks of Donald B. Haynes ("How Bigoted Can a Man Get?" one of our major parties a little over a decade ago. page 20) is the son of the late Carlyle B. Haynes, a If I continue to receive your magazines, I will store them prolific writer and defender of freedom, who served in my office and sue you for the expense thereof.—WALTER R. for years as head of the Seventh-day Adventist War ZACHARY, Chattanooga 2, Tennessee. Service Commission. Donald, a teacher and free-lance writer, lives in Takoma Park, Maryland. WHO DID IT? Newell Jones and Jack Tucker (see guest editorial, DEAR SIR: page 6) collaborated on a series of editorials on Ameri- From what source is my subscription paid—whom have can Freedom in the Evening Tribune of San Diego, I to thank for this magazine that says so well what cries to be California. LIBERTY reprints their "Free Election, said and what must be said? Am I the beneficiary of a sub- Secret Ballot, Underlie Our Political System." scription because I am employed in the field of public educa- tion? If so, I think it is most fitting, because education is the In a past editorial LIBERTY pointed out that obvious instrumentality by which our heritage is passed on the question "Is America a Christian Nation?" can to emerging generations. Although there is a great clamor in have three answers, depending upon whether the public education about democratic living, democratic institu- questioner alludes to its heritage, its practices, or its tions, democratic process, et cetera, there not infrequently constitutional provisions. In the "Battle for Free- occurs a blurring of the focus placed by the framers of our dom" Dan Smoot, editor of the Dan Smoot Report, Constitution upon the individual liberties of man to a kind points out another sense in which America can be of reverence for an enforced conformity to the preference of called Christian. the group or majority. You might be interested in knowing that although I have Next time: "Liberty in the Space Age."—Is another received several previous issues, I never took the time to really area of potential church-state conflict being opened look at the magazine until this morning. I noticed on the cover the heading "Governors Speak Out for Religious Freedom" up? "Does Liberty Wear Chains?"—A searching look and I was curious to see whether Governor Nelson of Wis- at the real issues behind innocent looking laws—and consin would be included (he was, and in a characteristic, more, much more. concise, lucid statement), and then I found the "articulate . . . courageous . . ." statements made by Attorney General Mosk of my own State of California. It was an instructive as well as gratifying experience to get the wisdom and the feel- oAkck, siikk ing of this man's convictions, character, and intellect. So thanks again to you and to whomever I am indebted for the subscription for this heretofore unappreciated gift.— SAMUEL F. MURRAY, Sacramento 19, California.
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LIBERTY AND THE ELECTION ALERT TO RIGHTS SIR: GENTLEMEN: I enjoy reading your most excellent and objective of all magazines on the market that deal with religious liberty. In It is with deep humility that I attempt to thank you for one area, however, I find little comment in your recent issues: the work you are doing in the field of religious liberty; remind- the question of whether a person who belongs to and believes ing us of the great basic American precept of separation of in an organization that fundamentally opposes the principles church and state; regard and respect for minority groups; of religious liberty should be elected to the highest position your campaign against bigotry; and generally reminding us in the land—President of the United States. I am extremely of the things our founding fathers established in the days interested in the stand that LIBERTY takes. What are your when men died for what we are prone to take as a matter plans concerning this matter?—MAX G. PHILLIPS, Berrien of course, epitomized in the Bill of Rights of the Federal Springs, Michigan. Constitution. I was particularly grateful to you for the article printed Mr. Nixon is a Quaker; Mr. Kennedy is a Catholic. The on page 12 of your last issue ( June, 1960) wherein the official stand of their churches on religious liberty is a Attorney General of California, the Honorable Stanley Mosk, matter of public record. Both Mr. Kennedy and Mr. answered some very pertinent questions pertaining to present- Nixon have forthrightly stated their personal convictions day problems. . . . on separation of church and state. Their voting records When my present term in the Nevada Legislature expires, are available. January 1, 1961, I will have served eighteen years in that As to LIBERTY magazine, it is the voice of an organiza- honorable body. In all that time I have been particularly alert tion that "advocates no political or economic theories." to the rights of minority groups, and to all the tenets of the Thus LIBERTY takes no stand on political matters. Bill of Rights. On November 7 the polls will be open. The registered I am running for re-election again this year, the Democratic voters on the staff of LIBERTY will be there. Each will candidate from Assembly District No. 1, Washoe County. If undoubtedly vote his convictions. What are your plans I have done well, and if the people have confidence that I concerning this matter?—EDITORS. have served them well, I may be re-elected. If so, I pledge myself to simply be a good American.—DON CRAWFORD, MAGAZINE+PREACHER=SERMON Assemblyman, Washoe District No. 1, Washoe County, Ne- vada. DEAR MR. HEGSTAD: The enclosed sermon * is sent to you so that you may see that your fine magazine, LIBERTY, is being read and used. . . . BLANKET ENDORSEMENT LIBERTY is a welcome magazine to my desk. Thank you for the good work you do.—ALBERT L. CARDWELL, Sherwood DEAR SIR: Baptist Church, Albany, Georgia.
A friend presented me with a copy of LIBERTY at my re- * It was a good one, too!—R. R. H. quest. I think it is the best publication of its kind I have studied. Firmly and wholeheartedly I support every single word in LONG MEMORY this magazine. I am enclosing a money order for a year's subscription to DEAR SIRS: LIBERTY: a Magazine of Religious Freedom. . . .—WILLIAM I shall long remember your visit to Spartanburg, South SELLARS MCDOUGLE, Washington 4, D.C. Carolina, in July, 1959, just after the vote on the obsolete blue laws by the citizens of the city and county. Your January-February issue of LIBERTY magazine was ONE TO THE CONTRARY widely read in this section. Your publication of LIBERTY is making an excellent contribution to America's dream of reli- DEAR SIR: gious liberty for all mankind. The tasks of the friends of freedom will never end so long as there is a single man whose I notice that many letters have been published in your conscience and moral response to his religious convictions are magazine commending it for the work it is doing toward de- controlled by the iron hand of state authority. feating the blue laws in our States. I am going to write one Within the year since the July 14 vote on the blue laws, to the contrary. . . . which took place in Spartanburg County, much of the . . . I must confess I don't agree at all with your conclusion shouting . . . has died away. Many leading lawyers and legis- that these laws are unconstitutional on the grounds that they lators have expressed their desire for a better system. . . . restrict the freedom of certain religious groups. If that be true, Please find within a money order for $5.00 with which to then this Government has no right to legislate against religious extend my subscription to LIBERTY.—REV. W. Y. HENDER- groups in our land that practice polygamy. SON, Spartanburg, South Carolina.
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FREE ELECT/ON, SECRET BALLOT Under& Our Politica/ System
F WE WERE to choose a single scene and symbol to illustrate political I freedom in America it would be this: The time: Election Day. The place: A neighborhood polling place. It could be a private garage in your block; maybe the nearby school; maybe the fire station. There would be an American flag in sight somewhere to give the place a special distinction on this day. There would be perhaps four or six of A your friends, neighbors or acquaintances sitting at a table. The key furnishings of the room would be some sort of private en- Guest closures—some as simple as a curtained shelf; others as elaborate as a voting machine. Editorial Enter John Q. and Jane Public. They each receive a ballot and retire separately to the curtained voting booths. There, alone with their consciences, they mark their ballots; fold them; turn them in or drop them into the ballot box—their private judg- ment, if they so choose, known but to them alone. To tens of millions of Americans, this scene is so familiar as to seem commonplace. But to 10 times 10 millions, and more, elsewhere in the world, this little drama of the free election and the secret ballot is unknown. Many of them have never known an authority other than one imposed on them. The idea of having a voice in choosing their leaders is inconceiv-
Republican Candidates
For President: Richard M. Nixon For Vice-President Henry Cabot Lodge
Democratic Candidates
For President John F. Kennedy For Vice-Po::';ident Lyndon B. Johnson
PHOTO CREDITS: NIXON, able. In KENNEDY, AND JOHNSON many places, we must concede, it may be presently impractical BY HARRIS AND EWING: due to political immaturity. LODGE BY WILLIAM CHARLES; VOTING MA- But there are other places where advanced and intelligent people are CHINE BY H. A. ROBERTS, denied this right Americans hold dear. They may be permitted by their leaders to go through the motions of popular elections. But their freedom of choice is usually between a single hand-picked slate of candidates, or the often dangerous alternative of simply not voting at all.