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Opposition to this idea has, of course, been based on its advocacy of birth control and of free divorce. Bishop William T. Manning of the New York Episcopal Diocese called it "wicked . . . damnable," said that it was legalized fornication (TIME, July 4). Vivid pictures have been drawn of girls and boys leaping from one "companion" to another; of the "licentiousness" which would result from widespread and legalized use of contraceptive measures. Meanwhile Judge Lindsey has maintained that most of the Companionate Marriages would lead into Family Marriages, that there would be fewer illicit sex unions, that venereal disease would be less prevalent and that a great deal of "hypocrisy" would be taken out of the national domestic life.
Judge Lindsey refused to discuss his future, except to say that he wished to stay in Denver and there finish his life work. He may be a candidate for the Juvenile Court bench when Judge Steele finishes the remainder of his term, in which event his future would depend upon the people of Denver rather than upon the Colorado courts.