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[PCUSANEWS] Protestant leaders to oppose budget plan


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Date Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:37:18 -0600

Note #8663 from PCUSA NEWS to PRESBYNEWS:

05129
March 8, 2005

Protestant leaders to oppose budget plan

Kirkpatrick among those claiming that Bush proposal slights the poor

by Jerry L. Van Marter

LOUISVILLE - Five mainline Protestant leaders will call on the U.S. Congress
this afternoon to urge legislators to reject President Bush's federal budget
for 2006.

The leaders, who have scheduled a press conference for 3:30 at the
National Press Club in Washington, say the president's budget proposal is
unjust because it fails to adequately care for America's poor.

The Protestant group, one member of which is the Rev. Clifton
Kirkpatrick, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly,
will present a joint statement followed by individual addresses on specific
areas of concern.

The leaders will focus on Biblical concepts of economic justice,
arguing that churches can help alleviate some problems relating to poverty,
but "faith-based initiatives" alone are insufficient to stem a rising tide
of poverty in the United States.

The Presbyterian News Service will publish Kirkpatrick's remarks in
full as soon as they become available.

Others taking part in the press conference are the Rev. Frank
Griswold, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church USA; the Rev. Mark Hanson,
presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America; the Rev.
Ronald Stief of the United Church of Christ; and the Rev. Jim Winkler,
general secretary of the General Board of Church and Society for the United
Methodist Church.

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