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Dear Don Slater:

A happy 1964 to all Friends. Let's hope this year will witness more progress in the attainment of social justice for the social variant.

The legislative committee hearings are just commencing here in Boston, and, acting as a lobbyist for the Demophil Center, I am up at State House daily. We earnestly hope to get the Model Penal Code acted upon during this session. To this end we have had a thousand buttons "Let's Legalize Love" made and are giving them a very wide distribution. House speaker, John McCormack, gave an address at the Mass. State House on Jan. 2nd. His Nephew, Edward McCormack, former Atty. Gen. for the Commonwealth, spoke to me in glowing terms of the Model Penal Code. We regard this as a good omen for the year ahead.

The Demophil Center has been reorganized considerably. Every Thurs. we host an open house from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. It is usually a hootnanny on Thurs. and on every other Sunday a Poetry reading is attended by a goodly number of the group.

We feel that ONE Magazine improves with each issue.

Sirs:

Prescott Townsend Boston, Mass.

This is to inform you that I shall not continue my subscription to ONE beyond its present expiration date as I am concentrating my my contributions exclusively to my church.

Dear Don:

Mr. R. D. G. New York, N. Y.

Your December 1963 issue is a fantastically comprehensive treatment of the religious question from the gay slant. My own copy has been widely read by the local Roman clergy; consensus of opinion, allow-

ing for some definite dissent on the general and specific Catholic viewpoints, is that "A Moral Imperative" especially as it relates to the Roman Catholic's shortcomings registers 100% agreement.

All in all, a fine issue. I wonder whether those less-educated and less-conscientious hundreds among your readership, to wit: Mr. Bronstein's drawing, will object so rigorously to the December issue.

Your mention of the fact that you have contacted Catholic authorities is encouraging since probably a good 85% of gay people are Roman Catholic. That the authorities. did not respond is believable. But the rapidly growing liberal faction of the Church is acutely aware of the homosexual question and the damage which traditional Catholicism is doing to so many of its homosexual members. It is unfortunate that you chose to quote from Buckley.

I am strongly convinced that with the fast moving and radical events within the structure of the Roman Catholic Church and the swiftly growing voice of the liberals, we will find the Church leading the way in radically liberal statements of homosexuality. Latent homosexuality as a necessary psychological prerequisite to to any kind of happy communal life with one's own sex (whether within a monastery, convent or seminary) is slowly being recognized, if reluctantly.

Dear Friends:

Mr. R. A. Vermont

I particularly enjoyed Dorr Legg's "A Moral Imperative" in the December issue. If possible, I would suggest that reprints be sent to all denominations-their headquarters for sectarian publications.

A distressing note in that issue was the letter from Ann Carll Reid. There has been too much anguish over the August issue drawings. All of us are disappointed in our