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Well, this is the period where we hang loose and, you know, as I say all time, it's no need of us sang Hang loose. I haven't seen anybody in here this morning. It wasn't loose a little bit. And if you still kind of hung up the

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Reverend Cecil Williams freewheeling jive talking service may not be everybody's idea of religion, but it makes Glide Memorial United Methodist the most popular church in San Francisco. Any Sunday Joy. Everybody else got CBS News presents Look

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up and live today. Many mansions, a report on a unique ministry and San Francisco, California people going in on the glide community. It includes all kinds of people, but the majority are not the people you generally see in church. We are street people, people against the

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system, people who feel left out and people who are left out. There are also people who just want to celebrate in their own way. Glide is their church. Glide gives them the way I come to you, the glide community and say emphatically that if you get

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glide, if you really dig glided, you're saying yes, the glide to the people, to the community of glide. Then we better talk about a few things. And I want to get them over to you very strongly this morning. Today glad is to understand where glad is

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at this time in history, and I want you to know where glide is. I want to simply flew it out for you to digest. Now remember, I don't have any appeals that I give people and safe for you to take them. And from then on, everything

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is gonna be all right. I don't serve that kind of medicine, you know that. So I'm gonna give you some nasty medicine this morning to digest. To dig Glide simply means that you understand and that we understand and that we groove with the fact that we

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are a people who believe in liberation the liberation of prisoners, the liberation of the prisoners within the walls of the federal and state and city prisons, the liberation of prisoners in the ghettos of America, white, black, yellow, brown, all kinds of ghettos, the prisons of people's

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minds and the prisons of people's heart. To dig ride simply means that we're trying to break down those walls in the prison that we're trying to see. People were trying to liberate women and Children and men. You see, I put that women first. I know where

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my head is this morning. All right, Come on, let's go saying older games, people play because that's a really groovy number. Let's get with it. All right, way.

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Wait, wait. That the other one last? All right the way. So we gave that thing that we have been a dirty rotten Alright, Yeah. Wade Church is part of the Glide Foundation, whose modest sized endowment is

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used in very unusual ways. Its goal, broadly speaking, is to change San Francisco, if not California and the Western United States for the better. Why change San Francisco cars Hidden within the city, you see, is another city populated by people who are in some way different

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from most of us people living out of the mainstream, unheard and unseen. Through countless dozens of projects, Glide is making this invisible city visible and bringing its people into the center stream of urban life. In the past nine years, glide has evolved strategies and projects which

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have become models in the broad struggle to give new life to America's cities. If there's something that needs to be done in the city that nobody else will do, then maybe we ought to do it. I think as an example at the time, at the height

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of the flower Children and the hip movement in San Francisco, there was an obvious need for some kind of institution for runaways. Nobody would touch it. We had a juvenile judge or head of the juvenile court at that time who was back in the 19th century

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and who wasn't particularly helpful and who had threatened anybody that tried to get into this field so that the YW, the YM, the other agencies in the city were afraid to touch the runaway problem. So Glide decided that a runaway house, something separate from the police

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and for the juvenile court needed to be established and huckleberries was started, which has become a prototype for runaway houses all across the country. And sure enough, the entire house and staff were busted and we had to get them out of jail. But we won that

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round well Now. Huckleberries are is now known as youth advocates, and it's separately incorporated entirely on its own and getting funding from many sources, Glide still keeps an informal relationship to it. But where at one time we were the administrator and the starter of the project,

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it now is on its own, and I think this is partly this whole matter of seating or starting operations and then helping them go on their own. I think we tend to emphasize things that young adults are doing the new generation as an endorsement factor as

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a really a kind of strategy. Uh, if young adults aren't helped to do things that are creative, they're gonna turn to fairly destructive things have become very apathetic, and we feel that there's a real need to help that the new generation, so to speak. Uh, there

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are some limitations. I think, quite frankly, uh, we don't help Communist Party activities. Uh, we've been burned, you might say, by the, uh, Socialist Workers Party and the Progressive Labour Party particularly, and we tend to say, Look, they've got their own possible sources of financing. We're

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not going to fuss with them. Uh, we tend to stay away from some of the other religions. We've had meditation centers and Buddhist groups in this kind of thing. Come to us for help, and our feeling is that religious movements ought to be able to get

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it together on their own. We tend to help those things that are more community oriented. We tend to emphasize those things done by the young, particularly Third World. Young and I think we tend to emphasize those things that tend to form new styles of institutions, new

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ways of doing things where they're actually providing new alternatives in our society, I think, in a sense, helping the society be more pluralistic. There are few American cities with a greater reputation for social tolerance than San Francisco. Yet it's large Asian population would not agree. The

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Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos and Samoans living here have suffered from the same pattern of exclusion that has characterized white America's relations with blacks in the South and Mexican Americans in the Southwest. One of glides current efforts is the Asian Coalition, an organization designed to create a sense

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of common identity among Asians so that they can speak with more authority. Question of identity has reached crisis proportions among young people, who are trying to upset the long held view that all Asian Americans are docile and contented. How do you tell this to the outside

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people where they have all these stereotypes of us? How do you break these stereotypes? I think part of the biggest problem is that you know, we ourselves have met the stereotypes that they give us, you see, and that you know the example of being passive. You

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know, again, the impact of racism. Passive. A cute little girls, you know. And us gentlemen, uh, you know, man kind of the laundry man image, the waiter, the waitress type of thing. I think the thing that really bothers me the most is really the impact of

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the racism in our community and that we submerge. We submerge our hurts our fear. And this is why a lot of our people are not able to speak out and say, Well, how they express what they really feel because of their fear. You know what would

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happen to them? They lose their jobs, you know, when they lose their positions. And this is the sort of thing that we have to express to our people. You know that you shouldn't be afraid. Be visible. And this is why, in some respect we're not getting

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a part of the so called war on poverty money. You know, part of it is that we don't let people know that we have problems. But how can people come out feeling dignified and not afraid of all? They can see the people of their own race

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being dishwashers, laundry man, and not at any visible jobs that have any dignity. Employment has placed such an important role in stereotyping the Asians. Like, uh, they went down and met with the United Bay Area Crusade Board about two weeks ago. It was, And after we

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made a presentation to them and, uh, there were lawyers, there were ministers. There were social workers and teachers and professional people there. And after we made a presentation and the president stood up and say and he said, Thank you for a very good representation. And if

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it's sort of like a great school class, you know, uh, when student made a report and just say a good little boy, you made a good report and they were listening at all. You see, I was just wondering the dilemma. Educating the larger community, uh, how

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best we can do it and whether in relationship to our own problems. You see, where is our priority registry? We spend the time become a very serious problems. Education comes on many levels. Um, for example, if the president of the United States is not sensitive to

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his people, which is a large percentage is oriented Asians. His friend Lieutenant Kelly made such a terrible blow to the Asian community. Does it show to the Asian that he did not feel that Asians were people, that they had a right to kill the Asians? If

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they did that in Germany, it would be something else. But because they were Asians, Lieutenant Kelly was just very nicely dismissed. And that really angered a lot of Asians. Well, you know, you a C United Nations community. In a sense, it's not just happening here in

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San Francisco. As I travel up and down the West Coast in Seattle, in Los Angeles and San Diego, you know, coalitions are building up the Social Asian American social workers are getting together. The Asian American clergymen are getting together. You see, there's something more important, something

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more urgent right now in our society than dealing with other privileged things like transcendental religion or communes or a point I get very turned off with ecology. You see, when there's so many people are really suffering and people are tripping somewhere else, we read in first

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Corinthians Chapter 12. There are many kinds of service, but the same lord, and there are different ways of working. But the same God inspires all of them. For all of us participating in this revolutionary community, there is but one common task which should engage our various

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gifts, many kinds of services and different ways of working. Our chairman, Jesus in Luke, Chapter four, calls us to participate with him in this task to preach good news to the poor, recovering of sight to the blind, recovering of sight for those blinded by the disease

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of racism so they can clearly see both the oppressed and the oppressor here and in all parts of the world. The Bible as a revolutionary message, Jesus as the chairman of the revolution, the style of the glide community is not only revolutionary but revolution minded, although

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for most people here, revolution is no more than a hip word for social change. Glide is a catalyst for people who want to reject the system but have found no alternative. Through glide. People find alternatives in projects or simply in the company of others who feel

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and think as they do. Really. We went down to L a weekend before Last thing. The girl on the plane. It was a Vista volunteer named Heather, and she said that Glide was to relevant. The idea of revolutionary alternatives is even enjoying some government sanction. The

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Peace Corps has contracted with Glide to provide a much needed transition process for volunteers returning home. The Transition Center project offers volunteers some answers to the biggest question in their mind. Shall I join the system or the Revolution? But what kind of worries me is that

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you keep hearing talk, that no one wants to work with the system at all, and we can have a commune pretend like it doesn't exist and just let the whole thing go on. I don't know. I think some of us are going to have to say,

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Okay, yeah, we're going to go and put up with it for a while in the youth values today, because some of them get politically oriented and other people get spiritually oriented with Hindu religion with the Hindu trips or the Hari Krishna or whatever. And people go

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off the rural communes and start farming. And they said they don't want anything to do with politics and just let the world come to them. But for a lot of people, they don't have that choice to be able to do that. You dropped out of the

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system like that. You do more to hurt it than you than you do. You know the system now, I think, thrives off non involvement by the mass of the people. And so if you run off the West Virginia and live on Big Rock Candy Mountain, you

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leave a smaller number of people a greater opportunity to dominate. If you're if you're in the system, don't you think that in a way, you're just supporting it? You know you're allowing No, I don't know what to do while you're in the system, just by just

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by being in there. Basically, you're right. You're perpetuating it because it's bringing more and more people in there who are out on the fringes or translating the system to people who can't don't really understand it. For example, what we all did in Latin America or around

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the world, all the countries we're in, no matter what you say. We were representing the United States and a lot of the values that have had. That sounds to me sort of like I mean, that's the old theory. Don't don't do anything because then you're going

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to You're holding off the revolution and everything. Well, I'm tired of hearing that because there's certain people who need things right now and probably most of us, just by our influence and the kinds of things you'll do. You'll probably bring in a lot more social change

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in a long term sense then, by going out and throwing rocks, burning buildings, all this kind of stuff just because of the kinds of things you'll get into. You have to make a decision. It's really it's really, really funny. If you look at it like like

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like you said Bill, what do you do? Do you make a decision? Should I go buy a loaf of bread and feed a poor, hungry person right now, or do I refuse to buy that loaf of bread? Because the guy who owns the bread factory also

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is connected with with an armed with a firm that builds, builds rockets and murders And you know, I don't know, You know Do you let the kids starve or do you? But do you buy the bread? You have to weigh at some point in time You

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know where where it is you're going Transition center. Maybe about that decision making process I got life, mother. I got laughs, Sister. I got freedom, brother. I got good times, man. I got crazy ways, daughter. I got million dollar charm, cousin I got headaches and toothaches

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and bad times to like you I got my hair I got my head I got my brains I got my ears I got my eyes I got my teeth I got my tongue I got my chin I got my neck I got my skin I got

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my heart I got my soul I got my back I got my sex I got my arms I got my hands I got my fingers I got my legs I got my feet Got my toes I got my liver I got my blood I got my

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I got, I got my muscles I Got Life, Life Life 125. Reverend Edward Pete, Minister to Older Citizens, is another member of Glides Revolutionary Ministry. With his young assistant, Charles Clay, Dr Pete has formed a highly motivated, highly vocal organization of older people. Called the California

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legislative Counsel for Older Americans. They have proposed a coordinated legislative program, and they are taking it to the government and to the people. It provides property tax relief based on income, rent, control in private housing and the best medical care available, among other things. At this

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demonstration, the issue is rent control. The success of so many glide efforts is tied to the sense of community glide creates. Young people black, white and Asian are on this picket line, just as surely there will be elderly people walking on glide picket lines for them

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another day. Okay, my name is Tom, our I've been an ordained minister for 28 years, and I've been in the United Church of Christ for the last 24 or five years, and I came out here to direct the Institute for Sex Research. Or what you know

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is the Kinsey Institute study of homosexuality, which is Tom Mara is part of glides boldest project to date, the National Sex and Drug Forum. As a consultant to the recent National Commission on Sex and Pornography, the SDF made public some startling revelations about the American view

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of sex. Specifically that many professionals, doctors, psychiatrists, clergymen and sociologists those people to whom the public must turn with a sex problem know little or nothing about sex. The principal tool of SDF seminars are its films. This one is called Unfolding. The National Sex and Drug

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Form has subsequently become one of the country's few reputable sex study and therapy centers, offering its services to medical schools and other professional organizations around the nation. Well, now you've seen some of the films. I think you have a little of the idea why we use

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so much multimedia we find in using these films. And incidentally, sometimes we will have three films being projected here at once during the seminar across the front here, and sometimes slides on either side of that until people often scream for mercy and, uh, their associated with

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with sex films. Now you say, What's the reason for doing it? It isn't pornography. The reason to do it is so that you will say what you're thinking. We don't want to reach the last hour of the seminar and then suddenly have you get honest with

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your inhibitions down and you start talking about what you're really thinking and feeling. So we're nonjudgmental. We don't moralize how you use sex as your business and we feel the key word in our culture towards sex through the centuries has been constraint and, well, like anything

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else in life, it really ought to be proficiency. I just want you to know that we're moving now to a new level. And this is why last Sunday I called for this to become a wailing wall that we're going to remove the front from the front

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out there, the words United Methodist Church, God, Methodist Church. It's gonna We're gonna put the words a wailing wall for all peoples out there. You hear me because what? I want you to know that a whaling world has certain characteristics. It means that all people can

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come and do A and R and grunt and say, Well, we and all people can come and cry and moan. But also it means that people can come and spent their hostile feelings and their anger and not get frightened and threatened by it means that no

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matter what we have on our inside, the whaling world is here to receive it. The third thing the Wailing Wall must be is a platform for the voiceless people, for the people who cannot be heard in the community and in the city. And so the Wailing

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Wall must be a platform. We must amplify their needs and their demands and their claims to the world, even to the community. We must be those kind of people who are not afraid to let all kinds of groups come here and speak out. Let them do

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their thing as it relates to the human qualities as it relates to the repression that comes in their lives. So I say to you, let the whaling world be a platform for all people world. But finally you're finally brothers and sisters. Hear me now Let the

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wailing world take the people and push them back out into the world that the wailing world say to all men that empathy is the worst thing that can happen to men. Let the wailing world Hate all women Don't be none shall out get up and fight

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for your rights Let the wailing world say to the Children Save this country Children save the people Let the wailing world let the whaling world be open to all possibilities Let old men and women and Children know that way the people world way The people will

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live awaiting mankind with us which comes to us in the one called Jesus of Nazareth and because he was a revolutionary I to feel that we must be that revolutionary group, which is to all mankind free at last, free at last way good and we are

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free at last way. Oh, it is difficult to judge a phenomenon like Glide, a leading San Francisco columnist has have jokingly called it ST Relevance. Perhaps he hasn't made up his mind either. People love it. People hate it. Many distrust

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it, but one cannot ignore it. Glide is too many different things to to many different people to measure broadly. Perhaps the one thing that can be said is that glide has helped people and to show others how they can do the same. That may be quite

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enough it. CBS News has presented Look up and live today. Many mansions. A report on a unique ministry in San Francisco, California It's good to see you. It it.