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labeled by the majority as "justice", zybski says, handicapped from birth. "punishment", etc., but more accur With the above public attitude being ately regarded as vindictive aggression. a logical consequence of doctrinaire It is now obvious why both the gay Christianity which children absorb minority and the perhaps smaller mifrom their parents before they are old nority of sensible and sympathetic enough to investigate and reject its straight people have sought alike to errors-it is easy to see why little or no "prove" that the homosexual is not rechange in public opinion would result sponsible (in a free-will sense) for his even if every gay person in the world deviation-since short of eliminating were simultaneously to announce the the free-will concept and with it most fact to the press. In the same way, in of doctrinaire Christianity. this is the spite of Freud, Einstein, Ernest Bloch, only way of turning aside the legal and Weizmann, etc., we still have the plague social persecution that would otherwise of anti-Semitism; and in spite of B. T. be the homosexual's part. On more Washington, G. W. Carver, Ralph correct deterministic grounds, it could Bunche, etc., the Jim Crow laws are be said that everyone in the environbitterly enforced. ment of the perpetrator is responsible for the latter's antisocial acts-and, a fortiori, in greater or lesser degree, for the latter's being gay-which makes the idea of "punishment" absurd. On these grounds, the solution lies in investigating education, economics, psychology, metaphysics, ethics and religion, etc., and in first improving them so that the individual will not be, as Kor-

DISSENTIENT

So you would fill your jails with likes of me?

But how can you discover What hopes at heart we cherish, such as we,

And whom we seek for lover?

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In the face of this, most of the other points raised by Mr. Ferrar, though correct (painfully so!) fade into relative insignificance. The confused thinking he refers to in his last paragraph is just as much a property of the straight world as of the gay; and for the simple reason that both sides have started with the same erroneous premises.

-Walter B.

You may forbid what you consider wrong

And threaten me with jail; The laws of church and state are strong

And who's to go my bail.

But if I keep the law that you decree-

Or if I choose to break it, This image of desire is part of me-

Your laws cannot remake it. W. K. N.

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