what religion was mary todd lincoln?
Presbyterianism Baptists Catholicism
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 Smith published a pro @-@ slavery essay in 1836 but later opposed the practice . During his presidential campaign , he proposed abolishing it by 1850 and compensating slaveholders through sale of public lands . Smith said he did not believe blacks to be inherently inferior to whites ; he welcomed both freemen and slaves into the church . However , he opposed baptizing slaves without permission of their masters , and he opposed miscegenation . 

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 Influenced by British author Herbert Spencer , Beecher embraced Charles Darwin 's theory of evolution in the 1880s , identifying as a " cordial Christian evolutionist " . He argued that the theory was in keeping with what Applegate called " the inevitability of progress " , seeing a steady march toward perfection as a part of God 's plan . In 1885 , he wrote Evolution and Religion to expound these views . His sermons and writings helped to gain acceptance for the theory in America . 

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 During this time , a church council expelled many of the oldest and most prominent leaders of the church , including John Whitmer , David Whitmer , W. W. Phelps , and Oliver Cowdery . Smith explicitly approved of the expulsion of these men , who were known collectively as the " dissenters " . 

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 After the failure of his first marriage , Waugh converted to Catholicism in 1930 . His traditionalist stance led him to strongly oppose all attempts to reform the Church , and the changes by the Second Vatican Council ( 1962 – 65 ) greatly disturbed his sensibilities , especially the introduction of the vernacular Mass . That blow to his religious traditionalism , his dislike for the welfare state culture of the postwar world and the decline of his health , darkened his final years , but he continued to write . To the public , Waugh displayed a mask of indifference , but he was capable of great kindness to those whom he considered to be his friends . After his death in 1966 , he acquired a following of new readers through the film and television versions of his works , such as the television serial Brideshead Revisited ( 1981 ) . 

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 Elizabeth 's personal religious convictions have been much debated by scholars . She was a Protestant , but kept Catholic symbols ( such as the crucifix ) , and downplayed the role of sermons in defiance of a key Protestant belief . 
