come when homosexuals would be forced to care for children as part of their social duties? How many homosexuals would actually want to bring up a child?

join movements to limit ourselves! Rebels such as we, demand freedom! But actually we have a greater freedom now (sub rosa as it may be) than do heterosexuals and any change will be to lose some of it in return for respectability. Are we willing to make the trade? From the silence of the Society on the subject, perhaps not.

But perhaps most important is the fact that the concept of homosexual marriage cannot come into being without a companion idea: homosexual adultery. To those living adulterous It is unfortunate that enthusiasm delives since discovering themselves to be mands more action than thought, and deviates, this comes as a ludicrous sugthat necessity often makes us run wildgestion. Yet to heterosexuals it is of ly before we've decided exactly where great moment and quite to the point. we're running (although we may be Equal rights mean equal responsibiliquite sure of what we're running from). ties: equal freedoms mean equal limiCommendable as the Society is, it aptations. pears that there is yet to be conceived Then this acceptance will cause as in its prospectus a concrete plan for great a change in homosexual thinking the homosexual's place in society. Until as in heterosexual-perhaps greater. No we know exactly where we're going, and more sexual abandon: imagine! Me, the stuffy and hide-bound-who can married? Yes, a great change in the help us exceedingly-might not be wildeviate himself, yet nothing in the literling to run along just for the exercise. ature of the Mattachine Society and When one digs, it must be to make a little of ONE is devoted to initiating ditch, a well, a trench: something! Othand exploring this idea of necessary hoerwise all of this energetic work merely mosexual monogamy. The idea seems produces a hole. Any bomb can do that. stuffy and hide-bound. We simply don't E. B. Saunders

ONE, by its very nature often discusses illegal sexual practices as well as the legal rights of those who commit them. Being mutually connotative, it is nigh impossible to separate the two. This, however, is not to be construed as an implicit approval of criminal acts, nor as an incitement of others to such behavior. If ONE had such an anti-social attitude, it would not devote most of its pages to demands for legal reform. It is true that precise definition of terms like "criminal sex act" are debatable not only over coffee but in the highest courts in the world. Yet, until the nature of a sex crime is so defined as to most benefit society, ONE wishes to clearly state that its aims do not include converting any man, woman or child to ways alien to their natures nor does is condone any behavior which is actually "against nature" and not to the best interests of society.

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