they worked out their social and economic problems. what factors build and which ones threatedn.
"A person is not cut off from the love of God by reason of sexual deviation," he declared. "But often the homosexual cuts himself off."
In generalizing on homosexuals acts, we must be careful in condoning as well as condeming, Reverehd Egan asserted, for no act can be judged wholly by itself without referonce to the situation.
"God is the final and ultimate judge of an act of charaoter. The judgment of a community is not definitive, but is itself under the judgment of God."
The clergman recommended Seward Hiltnor's book, "Sex and the Christian Life," published by the Association
Pross, New York.
He concluded, "That which God hath made, let not man do spise."
RISE AND FALL OF HOMOSEXUAL MOVEMENTS
Mr. Cory also touched on the differences in attitudes on homosexuality over the ages. He cited the opprobrium heaped on Oscar Wilde in 1895, when people threw rocks at him and his sons changed their name, as opposed to the first appearance about two years ago of an actor who had been arrosted on a similar charge. The actor received the greatest ovation of his career, the audience stampeded and his leading lady embraced him.
He pointed out that there have been three movements in modern times dedicated to changing the laws and public opinion with regard to homosexuality, and he pointed what these groups have done wrong.
The first movement began in Germany under the aegis of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. This group believed in the concept that the homosexual was born that way. Dr. Hirschfeld made thousands of measurements and showed statistically that homogoxuals were physiologically diff oront. Dr. Sigmund Freud
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