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Reinhold Niebuhr - A church has the right to set its...
A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce. (Reinhold Niebuhr)

A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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