Dear Gentlemen:

LETTERS

Am very glad that you are eager for research articles presenting scientific and historical aspects of the so-called "homosexual" facet in human nature.

At one time in the world's human history Man combined the homosexual and heterosexual in the temples of worship. This was very widespread and was about the same Babylonian, Chinese, Canaanite, Greek, American Indians, India. An ancient priestcraft of the Jahveh cult south of Canaan (now Palestine) put this under Taboo after the tribal invasions of the later so-called Israelites. The aim was power, pecuniary advantage and was implemented by Terror.

Part of this was worked out by Westermarck. The recently published Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics (13 volumes); (Hastings) works out more. The recrudescence of these Taboos came about after the fall of Rome and was on in full force about 400 A.D. and continued under a powerful, punishing, cruel Church until the rebellion known as the Renaissance. The Renaissance kicked over all the traces, and with the sexual freedom then, homosexual and heterosexual, came political evils. The workingman and middleclasses were neglected and fell into exceedingly bad circumstances. These forces gave rise to Calvinism. Calvin, a repressed homosexual, codified his notion of Scriptural Code into a Code of Civil Law. Syphilis also was a plague in Europe at this time.

James I of England tried to put down the so-called "Puritans" who left England and in 1620 settled America. Here, for the first time Scriptural Law became Civil Law. The Puritans left in England developed the factory system. Became powerful and finally had their way . . . fully developed by Queen Victoria's day. "Queen Mary, a Symbol of Decency, Morality and decadent Imperialism." (In the Puritan sense).

A detailed article outlining this would be lengthy for "ONE" at this time. Also would step on a great many sensitive toes?

The sexuality of Man, doing harm to no-one, is Innocent. But very difficult to tackle and publish at this time.

Sincerely,

M. L.

A detailed article as suggested would be more than welcome. As for the sensitive toes, ONE itself by its very existence treads on the majority of toes in this country. When being lynched, one doesn't wonder if it would be offensive to fight for life.

Dear Sir:

As regards your recent article, "Homosexuals Are Not People", no doubt your Mr. Jeff Winters is a well-meaning person. But a few ringing phrases gingerly balanced on sophistries and sweeping generalities, fabricated out of historical ignorance, can be as stultifying to the Homosexual Crusade for integration as are the calculated hysterics of the "pervertophobes". Although immersed in the current ebb and flow of "psychiatricities", Mr. Winters hardly can forebear to overlook the implacable historical phenomena that it is the social experience of the community which ever shapes the substance of its covenants . . . rather than a philosophic exhortation dictating master-plans for people to follow. As we have seen in California, indeed the accomplished testimony of Expert Kinsey before the Legislature produced worse laws rather than better. The aegis of definitive change is solely that of the popular vote. And the popular vote responds more surely to demonstrations and deeds than to uninvited intrusions upon people's cautiously preserved myths and prejudices.

Mr. Winter's pretense to objectivity would have been better served had he taken cognizance that leading European Scholars, as witness Dr. Yarl Wagner Smitt of the International

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