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JA. 4-8766 OUTBOARD SALES & SERVICE Johnson Seahorse Motors — Holsclaw Trailers — Marine Supplies — Parts, Repairs, All Motors TT BAND INSTRUMENTS .SMALL BRASSES - WOODWINDS STRINGS A PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS .V, WMI PICTURE1 FRAMING RETAILS WHOUSAU SPECIALISTSm CUSTOM FRAMING •EXPERT WORKMANSHIP-PROMPT SERVICE ■ REASONABLE PRICES /j cumrmtki rjuutwi •MIRRORS •m CUT OVAL MATS I NAcC (panr" . 36 ALABAMA ST., SW ’-i FIGURE 8 £ Now Conveniently Located In The Heart of Atlanta 70 Houston St. Atlanta “Oh, dear,” she said upon learning I represented a nation al, Catholic news service. She gave me an embarrassed, not unfriendly smile. Like the rest of the approx imately 500 men and women at tending the meeting sponsored by POAIJ (Protestants and Oth er Americans United for Sep aration of Church and State), she had listened in respectful silence to a 45-minute attack on the Catholic Church by Dr. Roy L. Laurin, Baptist minister and head of the Los Angeles POAU chapter. Tall, dignified, urbane, and articulate, Dr. Laurin drew gasps of surprise and alarm from his attentive audience v/ith references to “Romanism,” “power conspiracy,” and “raids on the public treasury.” To the respectable looking solid citizens who turned out to hear him and to fill the collec tion plates with generous con tributions (a woman in front of me rolled up two five-dollar. bills as her offering), he appar ently was persuasive. After the meeting I heard one man mur mur to another: “If a Catholic gets in there (the presidency), we’re sunk.” When I asked Dr. Laurin af ter the meeting if he would clear up some misconceptions, he gave me a stony look. “Ri diculous!” he said. “I know what I know. The question is closed.” He turned away and fiddled with his brief ease. Two lighted candles flanked the open Bible in the center of the sanctuary of the modern church. Above and behind the sanctuary was an illuminated stained glass window showing Christ praying at Gethsemane. From the pulpit came the words of Dr. Laurin: “Religious freedom is the greatest of all freedoms. Deny this, and you shackle the mind. When this freedom is gone, every other freedom goes.” But this freedeom does not belong to the Catholic Church, Dr. Laurin went on to explain, because the Church is really “a power conspiracy operating be hind the facade of a spiritual faith to achieve certain political aims.” Dr. Laurin hastened to as sure his listeners that he was not referring to the pastor of the parish church on the corner, nor to the “Fine Roman Cath olic family that lives next door to you.” His shafts were intended, he said, for “the hierarchy,” which hp described as “an intransig ent, immobile, monolithic sys tem that plunges forward steadily.” As Dr. Laurin’s address plunged forward, however, it became quite clear that it would be down right foolhardy to vote for any member of that “fine family next door” even for dogcatcher, since it would simply advance the “power conspiracy” of “Romanism,” which already is making “im mense raids on the public treas ury.” A Roman Catholic president, according to Dr. Laurin, would be “a threat and a peril to re ligious freedom.” He offered some questions that “we have a right to ask anyone who would be a candi date under the banner of Rome.” Some of the questions were: Would he give his first al- legiate to Washington or to Rome? Would he be guided by Con stitutional law or by canon law? Would he be partial to the Roman Catholic Church or be impartial to all churches? Would he exert his influence to oppose union of church and state or “would he follow the Roman Catholic practice of seeking the destruction of the principles of separation of church and state?” At the same time, Dr. Laurin also made it clear that a Cath olic candidate could not possibly pass the test of such questions. He referred to U. S. Sen. John Kennedy of Massachusetts, who told Look magazine that he did not favor sending an ambassa dor to the Vatican, that he stood for separation of church and state, and that he did not favor tax support for parochial schools. Admitting that these replies seemed favorable to Protestants, Dr. Laurin nevertheless warn ed his audience: “It is not nec essarily true that, what the Sen ator says publicly, he means privately.” The speaker provided several more examples of his unwill ingness to allow the Church credit for any good on any score. —Item: “If the Roman Cath olic Church is opposed (to birth control) on the basis of moral and spiritual principles, that’s one thing. But I have a sneak ing suspicion that it is a device foisted on the people by the hierarchy to outnumber the rest of us.” —Item.: “The Knights of Col umbus . . . spread their ads as traps for the unwary and the gullible . . —Item: “The Roman Catho lic Church uses immigration quotas to admit larger numbers of Catholics than Protestants to the U. S.” —Item: “Uncounted numbers of Christophers infiltrate mass media ... to lead men and wo men toward the orbit of Rome.” There were questions after the lecture, with William A. Cook, former superintendent of North College Hill schools; to answer them. Among the written queries sent' up to the platform there were none asking for documen tation of any of Dr. Lauren’s charges. Nobody asked him , why he criticized the Catholic Church for seeking converts while at the same time he defended re ligious liberty. No one asked him if the Bap tists, reputed to have the largest birth rate of any religious group in the U. S., were trying to “outnumber the rest of us.” No one seemed interested to inquire where he learned of the Church’s “policy” of seeking a Vatican ambassador and of “seeking the destruction of the principle of separation of church and state.” If anyone knew these charges had been tho roughly discredited after Paul Blanshard had given them wide currency a decade ago, he did n’t bring it up at the meeting. The only one of the 500 who raised any question of disagree ment was myself. Dr. Laurin didn’t appreciate it. As I left the auditorium, the elderly woman smiled at me and asked where she could get a copy of the- paper carrying it. Everyone else was busy, picking up free “literature” on such top ics as “The Rising Tempo of Rome’s Demands,” “If the IJ. S. Becomes 51 per cent Catholic,” “Should Parochial Schools Be Given Federal Aid?” and so on. One POAU pamphlet asked, “What’s the Biggest Issue?” Then it suggested three issues: integration, labor controls, and communism. But the issue that “tops them all,” it was indicat ed, is “Should we give public funds to the Roman Catholic Church?” MARRIAGES BENNETT-MANLEY -O O- ATLANTA, — Miss Evelyn Ann Manley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aloysius Francis Man- ley, of Atlanta and Mr. John Brad Bennett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Brad Bennett of Augusta were married April 11th at the Cathedral of Christ the King, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph F. Cassi dy officiating. O O | KILPATRICK-HIERS | O O SAVANNAH — Miss Carol Elise Hiers, daughter of Mrs. Ruth D. 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