VOL. 63, NO. 5 September-October 1968 25 CENTS 4.• A MAGAZINE OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM SHEEPSTEALING Will a gentleman in this ecumenical age seek to make a Pentecostal out of an Episcopalian? See page 7. WILLIAM H. HACKETT Assignment: Washington An interpretative report of church, state, and politics on Capitol Hill. ■ Before walking into the Rayburn House fornia, in remarks in the Congressional Office Building today I glanced over my Record, warned, "There is in this and other shoulder at the Capitol, whose massive events of our day a bell tolling for free- dome bears the statue of Freedom. In my dom and liberty as we know these qualities mind's eye that statue seemed enshrouded in America. As citizens have demanded the with something that blurred a vision of full expressions of the rights of liberty it. Events of the preceding days had been as individuals, they have not been willing distressing. In California a distin- to assume the responsibilities or the du- guished U.S. Senator, campaigning for ties which these rights imply." President, had been shot down. On the same He added, "Authority by the state day, in the nation's capital, where bank must increase to fill the vacuum where the robberies, rape, and other major crimes individual abdicates his responsibility, have come to be part of the daily routine, and that is what we will be seeing in the two unarmed U.S. Marines, in their full- days ahead. We mark another turn of dress uniforms, were ruthlessly murdered the wheel which sets our ship of state back- while eating in a chain restaurant. ward toward more restraint by the state, The following day I sat in the gallery less liberty for the individual." of the U.S. House of Representatives while ■ The Supreme Court, in toppling a Congressman after Congressman asked, in forty-five-year-old barricade blockading one form or another, "What's happened to taxpayers' suits in Federal aid cases, has our country?" Congressman William Bates, accomplished what a Congressional bloc of Massachusetts, said we are "passing has been trying unsuccessfully to do for through a period of stress, rebellion, many years. Senator Sam J. Erwin, Jr., of violence and irresponsibility." North Carolina, had succeeded in getting Congressman Spark Matsunaga, of Ha- his measure passed by the Senate only to waii, said, "Why, why, why, we cry aloud in our aching hearts, searching for an have it stopped by the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives. answer." The 8 to 1 decision opens the way for Congressman Joel T. Broyhill, of Vir- taxpayers to file suit in Federal courts ginia, said, "Thousands of Americans, in- challenging allocation of Federal tax cluding myself, have asked the question money for parochial schools. The decision many times since yesterday, 'What is hap- toppled a decision in the same Court in pening to America?'" 1923 in which a taxpayer was denied "stand- The specter of this great nation hav- ing." In the new decision Justice Warren ing to assign a squad of secret service of- said, "We hold that a taxpayer will have ficers to every candidate for the nation's standing. .to invoke Federal judicial top political position carries with it power when he alleges that Congressional ominous signs. (Congress passed such leg- action under the taxing and spending clause islation a few hours after the assassina- is in derogation of those constitutional tion of Senator Robert Kennedy.) provisions which operate to restrict the The question is being asked by many-- exercise of taxing and spending power." Will current uprisings and symptoms of an- Action came in a case in which a group archy in this country lead to curtailment of New York taxpayers challenged Federal of some of our liberties? assistance to parochial schools under Ti- Congressman Richard T. Hanna, Cali- tles land II of the Education Act of 1965. VOLUME 63, NO. 5 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1968 LIBERTY A MAGAZINE OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM EDITOR ARTICLES Roland R. Hegstad ASSOCIATE EDITORS Marvin E. Loewen 7 Sheepstealing Sydney Allen W. Melvin Adams James V. Scully 10 New Deal for Spain's Protestants Roland R. Hegstad ART EDITOR Terence K. Martin 14 What Does the UN Really Say About CIRCULATION MANAGER Religious Freedom? Stanley I. Stuber S. L. Clark FIELD REPRESENTATIVES 18 1-A-O W. Melvin Adams C. M. Willis Clifford Okuno 21 The Brave Stand of Archbishop CONSULTING EDITORS W. P. Bradley, Neal C. Wilson, M. V. Campbell Yermogen Michael Bourdeaux R. L. Odom, Cyril Miller, Theodore Carcich Darren Michael 24 I Protest! C. C. Shadier CONTRIBUTING EDITORS W. L. Emmerson Kenneth Holland 26 No Mind to Be a Judge Varner J. Johns C. Mervyn Maxwell Warren L. Johns LEGAL ADVISER Boardman Noland EDITORIAL SECRETARY FEATURES Pat Horning LAYOUT ARTIST Alan Forquer 2 Assignment: Washington William H. 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Write: Review do to him. and Herald Publishing Association, Washington, D.C. 20012. 3 from the editor's desk Journey to Vietnam likely to mistake him for a soldier. A six-footer with mild blue eyes, he is comfortaby over draft age. His wavy hair shows the ravages of responsibility. Though he is still relatively trim, his waistline and belt do enter- tain a more intimate relationship than a few years ago. Most compelling of all, he had a son serving in Vietnam, Sp4c. Clinton M. Adams, attached to Company D, First Medical Battalion of the First Infantry Divi- sion. Stationed with a forward medical unit near Phou Vihn, Clinton was a 1-A-0, a soldier conscientiously opposed to bearing arms but willing to serve his country in a noncombatant capacity. A graduate of Takoma Academy in Takoma Park, Clinton Adams shows his father, W. Melvin Maryland, Clinton had finished the Medical Cadet train- Adams, the business end of a hypodermic. ing offered in Seventh-day Adventist schools. Drafted in the fall of 1965, he finished basic training at Fort AD we known the casualty rate of war correspond- Sam Houston, Texas, and in April, 1966, was shipped H ents in Vietnam, we probably would not have to Vietnam. asked LIBERTY'S associate editor W. Melvin Adams to Just coincidentally, of course, we were interested stop there. His wife, Olive, surely did not sleep better in the record being made by the 550 1-A-O's serving in for it. And he is the father of three children—Willis that war theater. Find out, we commissioned Adams, M., twenty-six, a Seventh-day Adventist ministerial what their fellow soldiers think of these gunless won- intern in Rock Springs, Wyoming; Clinton M., twenty- ders whose only side arm is a hypodermic. three; and Berneva, eighteen, a student at Columbia Don't expect an objective report.