well controlled than heterosexual ones; that those who have homosexual tendencies are, in some way, dangerous, that many sexual crimes are committed by persons with homosexual orientation.

"None of these beliefs is justified by clinical and statistical evidence.

"Christian ethics distinguishes between homosexual feelings and overt acts of homosexual conduct."

Homosexuality cannot be considered an excuse for immoral conduct, the report adds. "Our attitude towards persons so afflicted must be fair, untinged with prejudice and always charitable-in short, Christian.

JUSTICE WEEKLY later editorialized, "In only one of its findings does this report disappoint, and that is in what it has to say about homosexuality; it asks for a charitable attitude toward homosexuals but goes no further. Perhaps we should not find fault with the United Church for its timidity in a realm where there is so much ignorance and prejudice; when the courts, and even our official psychiatry, show so much variety of opinion, why should a church expose itself in what is bound to be a long and disagreeable fight? But the problem of the homosexual exists in Canada. He is not, as many people have supposed for so long, to be found only among a privileged class, nor is he detectable by effeminacy of manner; he is to be found everywhere, and his plight is a most unhappy

one.

"To talk of cure or treatment for homosexuals is to go too fast. . . It may be said that what creates the homosexual problem in Canada today is the unintelligent way in which this minority is regarded and treated....

"The United Church has not said much on this subject, but we may be sure that it will speak again....'

ATHENS, GA.: White youth, age 17, convicted of manslaughter with probable 1-3 yr. sentence in death of elderly Negro man. An accomplice acquitted, but 2 face new trial for robbery. Henry Thornton, 75, had picked up hitchhiking pair and Rob't. Fish claimed he became "scared and confused" when Thornton allegedly made advances. .

NEW JERSEY: 27 yr. old Jersey man arrested for allegedly robbing, molesting and threatening 22 yr. old hitchhiking sailor... Camden court nixed an arrest made by cop dressed as girl. 1906 law forbids anyone to dress as one of opposite sex. What's sauce for the goose . . . A band director returned from Virginia to face charges of murdering one of his drum majors. 19 yr. old boy, spending nite in McAuliffe's apt., had borrowed latter's car for a date, McA. said. Waking Monday, he found the dead boy in his bed, clad in underwear. He panicked-drove south. "If I truthfully thought I'd done it,". he said, "I wouldn't be here. I'd be out somewhere with another shell in my head."

PITTSBURGH: A "habitual sex offender' demanding his freedom on grounds he received no psychiatric treatment in Western Penna. Pen, where he was indeterminate-sentenced in 1954, under Barr-Walker act, which specified such treatment. Judge Ellenbogen said he'd not intended to impose a life sentence, rather a sentence "in which the accused was to be given a chance at redemption."

CHICAGO: Shortly after cops banned film of Don Giovanni, Judge Grover Niemeyer de-constitutionalized the city's obscenity law, ending drive against city newsstands in which over 100 persons were arrested Police scandals (graft, robberies, etc.) mounted ominously, as joke went round 'bout motorist who, when stopped by an officer

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