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Saturdoy, Oct. 27, 1979 Kokomo (Ind.) Tribune 15 m.r rr 7 Homosexuals level charges at Mormon Church PROVO, Utah (AP) Utah homosexuals say the Mormon Church Is' trying to stamp them out, using a private police force at the church- owned Brigham Young University to harass them throughout the state. The claims are denied by both university president Dallin Oaks and the chief of the 24-officer BYU security force. But a former Mormon minister who now serves a gay church in Salt Lake City 27 miles from BYU's Provo campus contends he saw men from BYU jotting down license plate numbers outside a gay bar. And a Mormon lawyer says a client charged with forcible sexual abuse was set up for the arrest by what he called BYU's "Mormon Militia." The university police, responsible only to church officials, last year were given investigative and arrest powers rivaling those of the State Police through a law passed by the Legislature.

The law which took effect last May 10 pertains to all Utah colleges and universities which have security forces. But the BYU force is particularly visible as the largest among private schools and as the best equipped In the state, with sophisticated surveillance Units and experience from assisting local authorities in drug and vice cases. Before the law was passed, critics had complained about the situation under which BYU officers had regularly served off-campus as deputy sheriffs, under uncertain authorization. BYU lobbyists testified at legislative hearings concerning the law that the measure was needed "to clarify" the off-campus situation. Security Chief Robert Kelshaw now says his officers stay on campus and that he has no intention of using the statewide police authority.

Furthermore, Kelshaw says, BYU police don't go after homosexuals "any more than they do after any other type of criminal," adding that only 5 percent of campus arrests are sex-related. "The charge is really preposterous," says BYU president Oaks. He says campus police will continue to enforce all laws forbidding illicit sexual activity, whether homosexual or heterosexual: "People should be able to walk down the street without someone seizing LEARN HOW TO MEMORIZE THE BIBLE See this colorful, animated two hour film which features memory and basketball expert JERRY LUCAS Sunday evening 7:00 p.m. November 4, 1979 SOUTH SIDE CHRISTIAN CHURCH Fellowship Hall Union Bible Seminary Choir Sunday, Oct. 28 7 p.m.

GATEWAY FRIENDS CHURCH 1001 E. Firmin Ollie McCrume, Pastor THE FORD FAMILY will minister the gospel through music and the preaching of the Word at: SOUTHSIDE ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH 1803 E. Voile Avenue Sunday, October 28, 1979 in 10:30 a.m. 6:00 p.m. Services Cookie Monster Oscar the Grouch in Children's Church sumber One SPIRITUAL HEART DISEASES, WORRY Worry is as a prayer to a false, non-existing god.

It Is like rocking in a chair, you get a lot of exercise but you get nowhere fast, If we're well, we worry we'll get sick. If we're young, we worry about getting old. Martha has many brothers and sisters in our age who are careful and troubled about many things," (Luke Indeed, worry is the watchword of our day. I believe we could all use the valuable information given in (Philipians 4:6,7) and (Mathew This advice should be quite useful in our nuclear age any age. Being "worried" and being "concerned" are not the same thing.

Being concerned about having an automobile accident will cause us to practice sai'ety first. Concern over being ill'will cause us to practice rules of good health. "Today Is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday." To the habitual worrier, 80 per cent of his time Is wasted 40 per cent in the past and 40 per cent in the future. He is left with the crumbs. When we worry life is usually distorted.

The story is told of a man driving his wagon through strange country. seemed to be on a long, unending hill. The crest of the road was never in mule was sagging! under the load. He finally pulled to a stop and asked of a boy standing by the side 9(30 A.M. Bible School 10(30 A.M Worship 6:00 P.M Sun.

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Then trust in God. (Phil. Have a "positive mental outlook." Do what you can. Don't worry about what you can or cannot change. Live one day at a time.

(Matt. Engage in purposeful work. (2 Thess. He was a wise man who said, "I have no time for worry. In the daytime I'm too busy to worry and at night I'm too sleepy." Realize It to be useless and Would you really like to see how silly worrying is? Try this "What were you worrying about a year ago today?" Week S.H.D.

-FEAR WEDNESDAY 7:30 P.M Bible Study them and soliciting sexual relations." The Rev. Robert Waldrop, an acknowledged homosexual who serves the Metropolitan Community Church in Salt Lake, says that if the Mormon Church wants to teach that homosexuality is a sin, "that's their business," but it should not enforce its beliefs with its own militia. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints excommunicates homosexuals. Mormon president Spencer Kimball says homosexuality is "an abomination to God" that "corrodes the mind, snuffs out self- esteem and drags one down into darkness of anguish and unhappiness." Waldrop says that the alleged BYU pressure on homosexuals has driven many of them from campus, or at least into hiding. "A year ago, I knew about 20 gays at BYU, but this year I only know of two," he says.

The minister says that within the last year he has seen people noting license numbers outside The Sun, a Salt Lake gay bar. He says when he approached one man, he drove off in a car bearing a BYU student parking sticker. Kelshaw says, however, the only time he approved surveillance of The Sun was two years ago during a drug investigation. He says any officer trying a stake-out on his own would be risking his job. Charges of gay harassment drew attention after the arrest.of David Chipman, 24, who answered a letter in a gay newspaper.

The letter sought people interested in forming a "BYU gay underground." Chipman, although not a BYU student, met his contact in. the student center, but was arrested by the man in a canyon away from the school. The man revealed he was a BYU police officer posing as a homosexual. Chipman's lawyer Ron Stanger, himself a Mormon says his was set up for the arrest and he has moved for dismissal of the case on grounds of entrapment. The judge has taken the briefs under advisement and indefinitely postponed Chipman's trial.

Kelshaw admits a BYU detective wrote the unauthorized "gay underground" letter. Oaks has since ordered a halt to such tactics. Although Kelshaw says BYU police will not operate statewide, others remain concerned. "The law is blatantly unconstitutional for allowing police power to be used to enforce views, if not exclusively limited to, at least included in church doctrine." said Shirley Pedler, Utah director of the American Civil Liberties Union. She says the ACLU will test the law in court.

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