THE CHURCH CARES, pamphlet by Rev. Wm. Percy Wylie of the Moral Welfare Council, discusses C. of E. attitudes on sex problems, including homosexuality. . . The C. of E. has given permission for reopening of Walsingham tomb to test theory that Marlowe's murder was faked to escape trial for sodomy and that he wrote Shakespeare works...

Hear tell fashionable Englishmen now sporting earrings. At art school Xmas ball in Bloomsbury, Mr. Martin Kenyon, cousin of Lord Kenyon, fastened on diamante drop earrings. lent by girl friend, saying, "It's quite the rage nowadays." Also wore brocaded waistcoat his gt.-gt. -grandfather wore at Waterloo. Mr. Nicholas de Wnd Fenton wore single pearl, explaining, "It's the done thing, and rather attractive."

"THROUGH ME MANY LONG DUMB VOICES..."

63 years after his death in Camden, N.J., where he spent his last 19 years, America's great poet, Walt Whitman, was to have been honored with a Delaware bridge named for him...

Until the Rev. Edw. Lucitt, Holy Name Society director for six south Jersey counties, fearing such recognition for the "good, grey poet" as a threat to decency and morality in his diocese, petitioned the Delaware River Port Authority. "Whitman himself had neither the noble stature or quality of accomplishment that merits this tremendous honor, and his life and works are

personally objectionable to us." He said Whitman biographer Dr. Gay Wilson Allen called the poet homoerotic, but said the Church didn't object to Whitman's "attitude toward democracy."

Edward McAuliffe, chairman of Port Authority when name was chosen, said Whitman had "honored place in our history," added they found no evidence Whitman was homosexual. Dr. Allen, NYU prof. of Amer. lit. (who wrote THE SOLITARY SINGER) said the term "homo-erotic" was not quite same as homosexual, and there was no evidence of any homosexual acts by Whitman, though the poet, like many saints, displayed "strong affection for men."

Father Lucitt announced contest in 58 parochial schools to name some more worthy son of Jersey for the honor.

From letter to N.Y. POST: (They) "want to take Whitman's name off that bridge because he may have been abnormal sexually. If they succeed, their next job is to remove Michaelangelo's statues from the Vatican, tear down St. Peter's Basilica and throw out all copies of Leonardo's Last Supper. Da Vinci was actually arrested on a charge of perversion and Michaelangelo's sonnets suggest far more than any of Whitman's poems."

And what about St. Augustine, whose CONFESSIONS were quite specific? But for Whitman, his greatness was not in spite of, but specifically because of the nature of his love for man.

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