"Precisely, sir!  The thing that troubles me most is whether those innocents can make their pattern fit into a naughty world.  Oh, it's been tried before! - and every time the world etched them away like acid.  Some of the early Christians - anarchy, communism, group marriage - why even that kiss of brotherhood has a strong primitive-Christian flavor to it.  That might be where Mike picked it up, since all the forms he uses are openly syncretistic, especially that Earth-Mother ritual." Jubal frowned. "If he picked that up from primitive christianity - and not just from kissing girls, which he enjoys, I now - then I would expect men to kiss men, too."