Religion: Laws & Lawmakers

By last week the able news service run by the National Conference of Jews & Christians proudly released a survey recording that 34 Protestant ministers hold seats in 21 State Legislatures. In addition, U. S. Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man'') Bilbo of Mississippi is a licensed Baptist lay preacher in good standing and U. S. Representative Herbert Seely Bigelow of Ohio is pastor of Cincinnati's People's Church. Secretary of State of Iowa is Dr. Robert Enlow O'Brian, Methodist minister and onetime president of Morningside College in Sioux City. Currently many a New Jersey...

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