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Yeah, yeah. Well, for instance, the surveillance of gay bars is much more strict than that accorded to heterosexual bars. If you're going to have strict surveillance of homosexual bars, then shouldn't the action bars down on Montgomery street in the financial district, just strictly surveyed. This is

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all one of the biggest problems. I think his police harassment, unequal treatment under the laws. Um, another one, of course, is always job security, uh, the employment problem. What is the Church's relationship with the homosexual? Okay, what is the church? Well, it seems to me that

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the Church's position generally has been one of flight from facing the problem of the homosexual community and failing to see the homosexual as a person as a human being. They tended to see the homosexual as a threat as a and see him in turn entirely in

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terms of his uh sexual identity. Uh, recently in the last 23 years, uh individual churchman have begun to come around and to face the problem of the homosexual and see him and her as human beings with enormous potential. Who are people persecuted in this society? I

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might say that the United Church of christ is uh and the methodist Church have done probably the best jobs are really zeroing in kind of institutionally and officially in working with the homosexual community here in san Francisco. Mhm. Yeah,