back-and who never for a moment thinks of excluding him from the family. The minority view, that sex without love is as common a human experience as excretion, must counter to the entire Old Testament tradition which sets itself against prostitution and homosexual acts, precisely because they are sex without love. The biblical faith asserts that it is love that makes us human, and

when love does not motivate and color all of our relationships, then the inhuman, the cruel, the evil comes to dominate and destroy human life.

The issue, then, we suggest is not whether so called perverse sexual acts can be allowed, but whether or not any human being can afford to devote himself to sex in any form without love.

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ONE

I cannot bring you youth

For life has brought me none.

But may I hold your hand in mine

And bring us into one.

Brenda Crider

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