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year. In our fight for survival, which is exactly what we are facing today, it behooves us to go to our church leaders and ask, "What do you think of homosexuality within the barbed wire of your beliefs?" If the answer is, "God help you, and we will try to with all the wisdom and understanding we can muster," you have made a rare and lucky choice. But if the answer is, in effect, "You are abominable and vile and I intend to use my congregation to force our lawmakers to outlaw you," then batten down your hatches and get ready for a blow. You will be attacked (from the safety of their pulpits) by these dedicated servants of humanity. Most churches will reject you. They may offer you a deal and if you do not care for your integrity, you may do fairly well for

yourself, especially at testimonial time. If you do care and you insist that any agreement give you as much consideration as any other member of the congregation, prepare for the worst. You'll probably be the subject of next Sunday's diatribe.

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have heard of only one church, located in Southern California, that opened its doors to meetings of homosexuals each week. But in this year of Our Lord 1954, the doors were slammed shut when the minister resigned. Where will it end? Perhaps, eventually, Nature will be allowed to show us the face of reality once more and we can dare live as human beings possessed of freedom and equality as Nature intended.

GIFTS TO THE LIBRARY

Among

mong recent gifts coming from friends for ONE's library have been valuable editions of books by: Dubois-Desaulle; Caufeynon; Symonds; Hall; Tellier; J. F. Fishman; Stekel; J. Segall; Tarnowsky; Takahashi.

As the library grows it is hoped that it may in time become widely recognized as a center for scholarship research.

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