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Show Advcntist Leader Airs View On Religious Liberty necauso under the Fe-deral Fe-deral Communications Commission regulations opposite viewpoints must be aired, Pastor John V. Stevens Sir., Religious Liberty Secretary of the Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adven-tlsts, Adven-tlsts, which includes Utah, was given an op- protunlty. Ills rebuttal statement, according to Dr. Dall Ma-gee, Ma-gee, local Religious Liberty Li-berty Secretary of the Moab church, was televised tele-vised seven times recently re-cently over a three-day period on KGO-TV. Said Pastor Stevens: "It Is commendable to - A bo patriotic and eavo energy. en-ergy. A sunday-closlng law, it's been suggested would accomplish this. Any time a law prohibits normal activities on a religious day, It favors those worshipping on that day, creating hardships for those worshipping on another day. "Thomas Jefferson declared: de-clared: 'The care of every ev-ery man's soul belongs to himself . . . God Himself Him-self will not save men against their wills.' A man should be free to pursue 'life, liberty and happiness,' for these are Inalienable rights. "Thousands of Catholics, Catho-lics, Jews and Protestr-ants Protestr-ants fled Europe, swarming swar-ming our shores to find these freedoms. Our nation na-tion became great because be-cause It respected freedom free-dom of conscience, worship wor-ship and pursuit of livelihood, liveli-hood, based on church-state church-state separation. "Seventh-day Advent-ists Advent-ists have been conserv ing energy over a corn-tury, corn-tury, voluntarily notbuy-ing, notbuy-ing, selling or working on the Sabbath, from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset, sun-set, according to the Bible. Bi-ble. An energy-motivated Sunday law would make criminals of otherwise law abiding citizens. "A significant segment of society Is gainfully employed on Sunday. How would they replace that Income? When citizens urge government to enact laws that proscribe basic freedoms they are unknowingly un-knowingly doing a disservice. dis-service. "Is it partrlotlcto help destroy the very things that made this nation great, things vital to its survival? "Energy conservation is important. But maintaining main-taining basic freedoms is the highest priority, the most loyal patriotism. "After all, what good is gas if you can't use it or if you don't have the money to buy it? |