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Religion: The Sins of Billy James

Dear Friend:

After years of shock and sorrow over the decline of morals and decency in our country, I thought I had become shockproof . . . Can you believe it: complete color films of sexual acts between women and men, including homosexual acts, using your children. Unless you and I act today . . . our children and our children's children will be exposed to perversion so sinister that good will become evil and evil will become good.

That fund-raising appeal, mailed out last month from Tulsa's Crusade for Christian Morality, bears the...

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