The Casa Grande, Arizona, Dispatch carried this news on :
New York (AP) — Twenty-three Lutherans, including 12 clergymen, have signed a call for tax resistance against the arms race, declaring, “We will no longer pay for war while praying for peace.”
The call was issued by the Lutheran Peace Fellowship and is being circulated nationwide. The Rev. Dennis Jacobsen, fellowship coordinator, says hundreds of Lutherans are expected to sign.
Nuclear weapons “are an abomination in the sight of God,” the statement says, pledging signers to withhold taxes for arms and use the money to help the poor.
