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Prologue In September 1967 I joined the University of Missouri–Columbia Department of Sociology as an assistant professor. Having also joined the Episcopal Church that year, I immediately began to hear about an outspoken priest in the church who was forced out of several clergy positions because of his strident support for the Civil Rights movement. Soon thereafter I learned that this man was Laud Humphreys and that he had left the active priesthood and was a graduate student at nearby Washington University in St. Louis. We soon met and became friends. I always found his life to be a mixture of myth and fact, and this book is an attempt to separate the two. ... ix Laud Humphreys ...

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