A Real-Life Story From Detroit

When I was a child in 1967, I remember visiting at my uncle's house with my family. My uncle told us something that happened near a worldwide gathering of my church in Detroit, Michigan the summer before. I don't mind telling the story because by this time, there has hardly been any church--or certain types of groups--even politicians--who haven't been affected by these types of situations. A male pastor propositioned a man on the street.--It was a sexual proposition; but the other man happened to be an undercover police officer. I don't know if criminal charges were filed or not--don't have enough information--but I believe the pastor lost his job. I've had a reason to believe that this disgraced pastor, along with another man who had been a practising homosexual, became a founder of the Homosexuals Anonymous program for homosexual people who wanted to change. So, the story wasn't all bad! It was only in the middle 1990s that I heard about the "H.A." program. Since then, I've ordered literature from the group and have discussed them a number of times. But I was quite surprised to learn recently that at least one of the founders of H.A. had been expelled from the program because of a sexual scandal involving his employment. After doing research on the Internet, I learned of many sexual scandals regarding gays and gay therapy. And I thought it was sad! Some people have made serious efforts to recover from homosexuality; but there are still problems.--The problems are even somewhat extreme, considering that young gays and others who have sought help have more or less suffered sexual abuse or assault! *** For the record, my uncle had a policeman neighbour who lived just a few houses away at the above address. I know my uncle used to talk with him; and the policeman seemed to appreciate it. [He said people didn't often want to associate with police, at least at that time.] Myself, I don't recall hearing about the disgraced pastor from my church. Is it possible my uncle heard through his neighbour? And if so, why would a police officer in Canada be interested in something that happened in the United States??? The incident happened in the summer of 1966, before my uncle's family even moved to that neighbourhood. Why would the police officer remember?  I think it's a long time that a Canadian cop would remember a story from the USA!--Unless the police had a reason to be interested!? *** Will be writing about some related matters; and if I don't finish today, will plan to continue some more tomorrow.