through Jefferson and others.

I believe that those of us who are able to perceive the hypocrisy, the pluralistic lies, the dirt embedded within our so-called Christian democracy have a distinct duty. Those of us who have been hurt by hypocrisy know its nature better than those who have not. This is an ugly duty, but it is ours.

Romantic love has been hard to come by, even before the Pauline blight through Christianity. If one doesn't like the church he can stay away from it and read The Religions of Man, by Huston Smith. He will discover that Hinduism has all the splendor and freedom that Christianity has not; that Confucianism has the wit and wisdom; Buddhism, the love and compassion.

There is literally no reason for giving time and money to any church that gives nothing but a stone in return. By enlarging our horizons to meet today's needs we will be doing precisely what the founding fathers intended us to do. Then the inadequacy of current churchmen generally will be less poignant. Mr. W.

Dear Friends:

New York, N. Y.

The stand which most so-called Christians take against the homosexual and the battle which many decent-minded members of our group have to face in trying to reach a happy medium between their lives and their religious convictions have inclined me to express a few views.

I have a faith in God, in spiritual things, which brings me a deep sense of inner peace, contentment and happiness. This faith has not been achieved through any religion, creed or denomination. God's Church consists not of holier-than-thou professing Christians who look down their noses at their fallen brothers. Think of the publican and of the Pharisee who went up to the synagogue to pray. Whose prayer did the Lord Jesus say was acceptable unto God?

I do not believe that homosexuality is the great sin that God cannot forgive, or that it is a worse sin than any other, as many church leaders would have us believe. Is God a respecter of persons?

Now I am not denouncing the clergy but I believe that our churches have departed a long way from the simple teachings of the Lord Jesus. Read and study His Word and believe God's word before any man's. We don't have to come to Him through a clergyman or through a church, but we can come to Him. anywhere. God does not live in buildings made with human hands. Those who put their faith in Him are His Church, the members of His body-not a religious denomination. Mr. P.

Prince Edward Island, Canada

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OVERSEAS PERSPECTIVES

Dear Sir:

ONE is truly a remarkable magazine. I cannot praise it highly enough. In reading it seems that the police in the States are more active in chasing Gay Types than here in England, or perhaps it's just that homosexuals in America are more daring. Here in the heart of the farming district it is rare. People who let it become known are, as we say "queer,' and spend many miserable years unaccepted by men and laughed at by women.

I belong to the Homosexual Law Reform Society. We now have a magazine, "Man and Society' out three times a year. Let's hope that people will soon realize this is a major problem and should be treated with common. sense, instead of shrugged shoulders. There must be thousands of persons in London alone. who live daily in fear of letting their natural feelings become known.

Dear Sirs:

Mr. D.

St. Neots, England

I recently saw the picture "Exodus" and to my great sorrow much of the good in it got spoiled in view of the anti-homosexual bias put into the mouth of Sal Mineo. I feel very much that some action should be taken so that part of the interrogation" should be cut out.

As you live close to Hollywood do you have a chance to find out who was responsible for these passages? The point is the more sensitive to me as I am both a German and an Israeli citizen, but live in the peaceful country of Sweden. So anti-homosexual a bias as in "Exodus" could never be produced here in Sweden.

Dear Friends:

Mr. B. Stockholm, Sweden

Enclose a clipping that might do for Tangents, relating a suspended sentence for a murder involving homosexuality. I did not at all like the ideas of Steuart on "Homosexual Procreation" (March, 1961) and have been working on a counterblast, but wondered whether it would be worthwhile as late as this now is.

Do you receive too little material altogether or too much lousy stuff and not enough of the right kind? If only one knew what you really required it's not always easy to tell from your selection.

EDITOR'S NOTE:

Mr. J.

Durban, South Africa

Mr. J. has unerringly put his finger on the difficulty by finding it "not always easy to tell" from the material appearing in ONE what the Editors are looking for. There is never enough good material in any category, but especially in well-written and interesting

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