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His goal is to get clergy behind the Democrats LEXINGTON MAN HEADS NEW GROUP PUSHING FOR POLITICAL CHANGE By Frank E. Lockwood HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER Most regular churchgoers want to re-elect President Bush. Most non-churchgoers plan to vote for the Democratic presidential candidate. That's the finding of a recent poll by the Pew Center for the People and the Press -- and it's a finding that Lexington's Albert M. Pennybacker hopes will change between now and November. Pennybacker, a former Lexington Theological Seminary professor, a Disciples of Christ minister and a lifelong Democrat, is chief executive officer of the Clergy...

Marquette Home | News & Events FIND Posted on December 03, 2002 at 15:53:05 Desmond Tutu to Receive Marquette University's Highest Award CONTACT: Felice Green felice.green@marquette.edu Phone: 414-288-6712 Fax: 414-288-7197 Desmond Tutu, archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa and a 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner known for his work in ending apartheid, will receive Marquette University's highest award, the Pere Marquette Discovery Award at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, in Gesu Church, 1145 W. Wisconsin Ave. The award has only been given out three times in Marquette history: in 1969 to the crew of Apollo 11, in 1979 to...

Tutu joins call to stop execution 05/18/2002 By ED TIMMS / The Dallas Morning News Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu and American Bar Association President Robert Hirshon have written Texas officials to oppose the execution of Texas death row inmate Napoleon Beazley. Mr. Beazley, 25, is scheduled to die by injection on May 28 for the 1994 murder of Tyler oilman John Luttig, 63, during a botched carjacking. Mr. Beazley was 17 at the time, and his case has attracted national and international attention because of his age. "I find it incomprehensible that the death penalty should be imposed upon...

South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, in a March 13 interview with Dick Gordon on NPR affiliate WBUR in Boston, drew a moral equivalence between the Sept. 11th attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and the loss of civilian life in Afghanistan resulting from the US military action against the al-Qaida and Taliban. He stated, in a charming and almost hypnotic manner, that the attack itself was caused by the "poverty, hunger and disease" plaguing the third world, which he blamed, by implication, on the US. He stated, with a slight pause and a nervous giggle, that no one...