On 29 May 1973 Rev. Philip Berrigan and Sr. Elizabeth McAlister revealed that they had married in 1969.

On 16 June 1974 the Reverend Dr. Lawrence W. Bottoms was elected the first black moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Blacks made up about 1 percent of the nine hundred thousand members of the largely southern denomination.

On 16 November 1977 the Florida Citrus Commission renewed its contract with singer Anita Bryant despite her antigay activity in Miami.

On 7 December 1972 Rev. W. Sterling Cary of the United Church of Christ was elected the first African- American president of the National Council of Churches.

On 14 August 1977 Rev. William Sloane Coffin was named senior minister of Riverside Church in New York. He had resigned the previous year from his position as chaplain of Yale University.

On 6 May 1973 Rennie Davis, who had been tried as one of the Chicago Seven for...