PEARS TO BE CRUEL, HATEFUL AND SICKENING IN THE ABUNDANCE! THEN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT THE CHRIST CAME ALONG AND TOLD PEOPLE THAT GOD ALMIGHTY WAS OF DIVINE MYSTERIC LOVE. THAT ONE OF THE DEADLIEST AND WORST SINS (AND I AGREE WITH ALL MY HEART) WAS HYPOCRISY: A PERSON WHO WAS EXTREMELY PROUD OF HIMSELF AND TOOK PLEASURE IN BELIEVING THAT HE WAS SOME DAY GOING TO HEAVEN AND THAT THE OTHERS WHO COULD NOT, OR WOULD NOT, CONFORM TO HIS HATEFUL BELIEFS WOULD GO INTO THE FIERY EVERLASTING UNENDING TORTURE OF THE FIRES OF MYSTERIC HORRIBLE HELL!

"... THE TRUE GOD OF EXCELLENCY AND MAJESTY LOVES ALL PEOPLE... HOW WE NEED PEOPLE WITH CHRISTIAN LOVE IN THEIR HEARTS, AND WITH AUTHORITY WHO WILL STAND UP FOR THE THINGS WHICH THEY SHOULD, AND WHO WILL PUT TO SHAME ALL THOSE HYPOCRITES AND HATERS OF PEOPLE.

"LOVE FOR ALL MANKIND (IN CHRISTIAN GOODNESS) MUST SHINE OUT AND IN THE PLACE OF HATE WILL BE LOVE. .LOVE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVEN LESBIANS."

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A. M. B., CALIFORNIA

"I WISH TO COMMENT ON THE TWO IRATE LETTERS IN READERS RESPOND (THE LADDER, Nov. 1960) REGARDING GENE DAMON AND A REVIEW OF THE NOVEL, YOUNG AND INNOCENT. FOR MYSELF, I AGREE THAT THE REVIEW IS MISLEADING IN THAT IT SIMPLY DOES NOT SEEM TO BE ABOUT THE EDWIN WEST NOVEL; HOWEVER, WHILE I DON'T CARE MUCH FOR THE STORY THE AUTHOR HAD TO TELL, LET US NOT BE SO SMALL THAT WE FAIL TO GIVE HER CREDIT FOR A GOOD TELLING. THE QUALITY OF THE WRITING IS MANY NOTCHES ABOVE MUCH OF THE TRASH BEING PUBLISHED

ON THE LESBIAN THEME. AND, FOR THIS REASON, THIS ONE DOES HOPE TO SEE MORE FROM EDWIN WEST.

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"AS FOR L.P.'S REMARK THAT MISS DAMON IS TRYING TO SELL FOR THE DOB BOOK SERVICE' EVEN IF THIS SHOULD BE THE CASE (AND I DARESAY IT ISN'T), WHY NOT? 'TIS A WORTHY CAUSE, LADIES!

"PROBABLY MANY READERS FAIL TO REALIZE THAT LESBIANA, A VERY POPULAR FEATURE OF THE LADDER, COULD EASILY BECOME A VERY IRREGULARLY APPEARING FEATURE IF GENE DAMON DID NOT WANT TO PUT SO MUCH EFFORT INTO SEEING THAT OUR MAGAZINE DOES HAVE A REGULAR

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