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Yes, the SAn Francisco conference on Religion and Peace has been an effort to try to marry the deeply felt concern in the religious community. That piece is the problem of that community, but across the bridge to those people who say that peace is not the concern

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of the church. And I think today's conference is the first major attempt in san Francisco to demonstrate that very controversial issues can be a vital part of the church's concern, that it can help to bring the young people back into the church who have left because

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they don't find the values relevant to their concerns at the same time tackling the very tough issues like Vietnam, like the draft in ways that conservatives who traditionally have wanted to keep the church out of these concerns can accept them as an important part of the

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church's affairs.