THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Religious Groups' Political Activism
Focus of Dialogue at NJCRAC Parley

SAN DIEGO (JTA) —
Two prominent scholars
gave differing views on the
political extremism of
Evangelical and other reli-
gious groups to 400 Ameri-
can Jewish leaders here
attending the 37th annual
plenary session of the. Na-
tional Jewish Community
Relations Advisory Council
(NJCRAC).
Dr. Franklin Littell, pro-
;ssor of religion at Temple
University in Philadelphia,
and a United Methodist
minister, presented a main-
line Christian view of the
Evangelicals' political ac-
tivism.
Dr. William ' Sanford
LaSor, professor emeritus of
Old Testament at Fuller
Theological Seminary in
_Pasadena, Calif., and a
leading fundamentalist
theologian, defended the
Evangelicals' position on
this issue.
LaSor disagreed with a
phrase in the proposed
NJCRAC position paper
which called certain
political activism by
church groups "pro-
foundly violative" of the
spirit of the -Constitution.
He argued that, for more
than a century ; liberals
have dominated church
thinking in America, and
for most of this century,
they have dominated the
political scene as well.
Littell _elaborated upon
his distinction between
"terrorists" and "freedom
fighters." "Terrorists assas-
sinate unarmed pilgrims,
women and children, and
freedom fighters are irregu-
lars engaged in attacks on
military targets," he ex-
plained.

"The King David Hotel,
attacked by Menahem
Begin and his fellow free-
dom fighters (during the
British Mandate in Pales- - :
tine), was a military target;
The PLO attacks children at
Maalot, pilgrims at Ben-
Gurion Airport, athletes at
Munich and Arab moder-
ates wherever they are.
These acts are not part of
the public discussion: they
should be suppressed by
law, and so should the
organizations responsible
for them."

LaSor
said
that
homosexuality and un-
married couples living
.ogether are proscribed

UJA Appointee

.

NEW YORK — Harold
Post of Louisville, Ky. has
been named associate direc-
tor for the United Jewish
Appeal's East Central
Region.
Post will work with the
Women's Regional Cam-
paign Cabinet and with
larger communities in the
Region. He also will super-
vise UJA campaign repre-
sentatives in Indiana, Ken-
tucky, Michigan and Ohio.
He was previously assis-
tant executive director of
the Jewish Community
Federation of Louisville.

by the Bible, "yet are now
being taught as alterna-
tives — and equally ac-
ceptable — life styles, in
our public schools." Such
situations, LaSor said,
give justification to the
Evangelicals' recent de-
termination to get in-
volved in the political
process.
Littell stressed that Jews
and Christians should work
together for mutual politi-
cal and social goals.

In a related development,
Albert Chernin, executive
vice chairman of the
NJCRAC, told the delegates
that the dedication Ameri-
can Jews give to the strug-
gle for the security of Israel
and Soviet Jews "must be
given also to the struggle for
conditions that will assure
domestic tranquility in this
country."
Chernin asserted that

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"the Bill of Rights is alive
and well," and added that
"we in the Jewish commu-
nity relations field can justi-
fiably claim our share of the
credit for contributing to
this unfolding expression of
American liberalism."
But he admitted that
there are "chilling ele-
ments of truth" in the
views of groups who see
the Bill of Rights as "de-
stroying the American
family, sapping Ameri-
can values and leading to
the disintegration of
American society."
He warned the audience,
however, that an under-

standing of these views
"should not lead us to disre-
gard the liberal agenda —
the basic protection that
every American is entitled
to by the Constitution."
He recommended "mas-
sive governmental action"
as a cure for the present ills
afflicting the United States
and reminded the group
that previous liberal goals
took years to achieve.

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