eighty-seven years old and have wisdom, though this takes time.

Dear ONE:

Mr. R. Cleveland, Ohio

A personable male homosexual frequently comes across the eager young female (or not so young either) who thinks every male is her meat as the churches have ordained and when there is no response turns about in bafflement and rage.

They are the products of a completely contemptible and wholly immoral religion which pretends to moral authority and teaches the most cowardly maxims. The world indeed sustains terrible loss because of religion when you consider the excessive valuation it has put on one particular sexual mode and has thereby abandoned and foregone the development of intellectual power.

If you destroy the body because of sexual deprivation, then you destroy the mind, as well.

Dear Mr. Alexander:

Mr. H.

Brooklyn, New York

I have just been given a copy of the Magazine (October, 1962) with your article about a homophile monastery. I was quite impressed with the idea, to say the least. You are no doubt wondering what my background is. It is religious, in that I have tasted the joys of living in a spiritual environment for a year in a Benedictine Monastery. I was later accepted by the diocese as a candidate for the priesthood and sent to another college to complete my studies. However, I withdrew by taking a leave of absence and have not yet returned.

Do you really believe such a community as you outline could exist? How would you go about finding others like yourself, who love God but find a certain pressure in soI called Christian circles? I must admit the whole idea sounds very exciting and I would certainly want to be part of the community, if one is getting under way.

Unfortunately, it seems that most persons we meet in this life are not too interested in preparing for eternity or in trying to know or love God. Perhaps the church is not particularly interested in the happiness of the homophile. Perhaps during the span of two thousand years some of Christ's teachings have gone by the board-I am thinking here of his doctrine of love, which as you know is the basic virtue of the three theological virtues, and upon which the others depend. Perhaps an early Christian would not recognize Christianity as we have been indoctrinated today.

Mr. M.

Somerville, New Jersey

POTPOURRI

Dear friends of ONE Organization:

I wonder if it might not be a good idea for those of us who periodically become unemployed to let you know about our status; and conversely, would it not be a good idea to notify you when positions become available in firms with which we are now employed?

I feel that the above-mentioned "big brother act should be carried out by all of us who are employed, for if we do not take care of one another who will? The strong ones among us will help. I believe there are many on our side, especially do I think that the real Lord, the One who has no sectarian name, is on our side.

Dear Editor:

Mr. B.

El Monte, California

I've been reading those scandal newspapers published in Canada in which the editor is always striking out at homosexuals. It just burns me up. My personal opinion is this: I feel Homos are not ruining a girl for a happy marriage and they are not bringing a baby into the world. Back in ancient times a married man wasn't considered proper unless he had a male lover. Mark my words, in timeif society accepts it, homosexual acts will replace this birth control they're talking about.

Another thing, show me a Homo and I'll show you a kind, clean, neat fellow. I've seen too many stern bachelors grow old, and what a mess of filth they live in. Their clothes are rotten, bodies smell and their shacks are a pig-pen.

Dear Mr. Slater:

Mr. S. Deposit, New York

Thank you for your letter to the Hollywood Citizen-News. I too was quite alarmed and shocked over the irresponsible articles. Not being myself a homosexual I allow myself the liberty to consider that question as an entirely. personal one which concerns no one but the person himself.

To me there is no need to explain that homosexuals are not more criminally inclined. than say redheads, or icecream vendors. Mrs. F.

Hollywood, California

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