US Lutheran leaders join in protest of big weapons

A group of Lutheran leaders is urging church members to protest the nuclear arms race by refusing to pay taxes. This is the latest development in the mounting religious movement against the global struggle for bigger weapons.

Tax resistance has become an increasingly important issue among the antiwar community since a Roman Catholic archbishop in Seattle raised the issue last June.

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