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Rev. Louis Sheldon: A Pulpit in Politics |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / PEOPLE IN THE NEWS |
| Author: Robert R. Selle |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2000 |
| Size: 1,664 Words, 10,466 Characters |
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Great feats, of course, are not done in a day. "A good [marital] union is something that is built hour by hour and day by day," he says in an interview. "It's something you work at, something you don't take for granted."
The 65-year-old Presbyterian clergyman, who is founder and president of the 43,000-church Traditional Values Coalition (TVC), with offices in Anaheim, California, and Washington, D.C., also counsels married couples: "Don't let the sun go down on your wrath, and never leave the bride of your youth. Stomach whatever the differences are, and work around them and unite."
He says that once unity is achieved--although "bonding" is difficult for inherently self-centered human beings--"you long for each other, to be with each other, to please each other, to complement each o...
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... affectionately quotes George Washington, who said in his Farewell Address on September 19, 1796, "Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports."
"We're not going to have political prosperity separated from religious principles," Sheldon says. "And we can't have national morality separated from religious principles."
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