Maurice McCrackin (1905-1997) is an American civil rights and peace activist, minister of taxes and ministers of the Presbyterian. Pastor Maurice F. McCrackin was moved from St. Barnabas in the West End of Cincinnati, for defending his beliefs against the Vietnam War. Not paying his federal taxes during those years is for the same reason, because the tax will go to war effort. After his enormous church, St. Barnabas, was taken away by the Presbyterian hierarchy, he started a small Community Church. Many of his former parishes followed him to a small building on Dayton Street in Cincinnati where he preached, performed services, baptized babies, and conducted weddings and funerals.
He was a principled pacifist all his life. He is active in the struggle for racial equality and ends militarism in the United States. McCrackin was well known in the state attorney's office when he was arrested repeatedly in protest. Pdt. McCrackin is also active in fighting for prisoners' rights and spends a lot of time visiting prisoners. Once, he was kidnapped by a man he visited in prison rather than seeing him jailed again, refusing to testify against him. District prosecutors in Cincinnati imprisoned McCrackin for weeks because of this incident.
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Quotes
- "To provide financial support for the war while at the same time preaching against it, to me, is no longer a sustainable position."
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External links
- Barry M. Horstman (1999-07-26). "Pastor Maurice McCrackin: The Minister has a passion for justice". The Cincinnati Post . E. W. Scripps Company. Archived from the original on 2007-03-13 . Retrieved November 6 2013 .
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