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Volume 7, Issue 2.
Summer
In this article, J. Ronald Newlin discusses the role of the Protestant Church - the traditional center of worship in conservative middle America - in the nuclear freeze movement. The author first discusses the differences within the Church, concluding that the nuclear freeze represents the one point on the spectrum of options which can be supported ... read moreby both conservative and liberal members of the Church. He then compares the religious freeze movement to its secular counterpart, arguing that the Church's accessibility and moral authority provide it with important advantages which the secular movement does not have. Newlin concludes by arguing that while disarmament advocates in the Church will not be able to convince middle America to support disarmament, they can serve an important educational role in the nuclear freeze debate.
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