former Yale chaplain says Anyone But Bush or Lieberman (whom he knew)

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Former Yale chaplain passionate as ever

Randall Beach, Register Staff
10/19/2003

NEW HAVEN — In the autumn of his years, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin spends many afternoons admiring Vermont’s flaming fall foliage from his back porch, but he still ventures out to seek "potential converts" for his cause of peace and justice.

These days, he notes, that cause seems as important as when he was being arrested for leading opposition to the war in Vietnam.

Coffin, the former Yale University chaplain (1958-75) who inspired students during anti-war protests in the 1960s, came back to New Haven this past week to rejoin his former colleagues in the civil rights and peace movements.

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He also criticized today’s college students, churches and U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, D-Conn. (whom Coffin knew when Lieberman was a Yale undergraduate) for not doing more to oppose the war.

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He said his favorite Democratic candidate for the presidential nomination is another Vermonter, the state’s former governor, Howard Dean.

"But any Democrat, except Joe Lieberman, would be a vast improvement over George Bush," Coffin added.

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