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The Nation - News from May 28, 1985

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Nine militant Pittsburgh-area Lutheran pastors filed a formal church complaint against their bishop seeking disciplinary hearings similar to those that stripped three of the activists of their pastorates, church sources said. The complaint seeks disciplinary action against Bishop Kenneth May of the Lutheran Church in America’s Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia Synod. The complaint is the latest round in the dispute between activist pastors in the unemployment-ravaged Monongahela Valley and church officials and law enforcement authorities.

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