subject there was the constant reference that they could more easily find tenderness and understanding from another female than from the male.

There was excellent audience participation which ranged over the problem all the way from the supposed "decadence" of the ancient Romans and Greeks to present niceties of "analyzing the behavior of rats in mazes.

SOME SHARP OBSERVATIONS:

One man asked Dr. Beach if he didn't think that with the problem of overpopulation, homosexuality wouldn't become more socially acceptable. Dr. Beach brought down the house with this reply, "I'd put my money on contraceptives!"

Dr. Zeff stressed his feeling that when the homosexual attained "self-acceptance", education of the public would no longer concern him.

Dr. Reider quipped along the way, "Anyone free of anxiety today ought to go see a psychiatrist!"

RELIGIOUS POINT OF VIEW

After luncheon Rev. Fordyce Eastburn, Episcopal chaplain at St. Luke's Hospital, San Francisco, jarred all those who expected an affirmative answer to the question, "Can the Practicing Homosexual Be Accepted by the Church?"

Rev. Eastburn introduced himself as a man who had been in the ministry 26 years, who was married, who had three children, who had no real experience with homosexuals in his counselling except for one admitted Lesbian, and who had had one approach of a homosexual nature in his youth which had apparently not damaged him in any way. Having admitted that homosexuality was an unknown island to him, Rev. Eastburn proceeded to inform us that he felt that homosexuality was a "primary disorder of the Divine Plan."

However, he was charitable, since "God accepts, we must also." In other words, a practicing homosexual could be accepted into the church; but how long such a person could continue in his actions once he had accepted Jesus Christ

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