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The September issue of Mr. has a lengthy article called "Are Communists Homosexual?" Mr. is another of those sadistically sexy scandal mags which pretend to be unbiased and scientific and which enjoy a frightening popularity these days. Considering the calibre of Mr. the only intelligent course of action would be to disregard the article, but it happens to be the third or fourth of its kind to appear in nationally circulated magazines this summer. The thinking represented in the article is not an isolated expression but part of a trend-a trend, incidentally, which was accurately predicted by the Mattachine Foundation over a year ago and repeated early this year in ONE.

The thinking behind the article in Mr. and the other magazines runs like this: communists are bad. Homosexuals are bad. Therefore communists are homosexuals. Illogical? Of course, but who gives a thought to logic when writing against homosexuals or communists? We live in the age of McCarthyism, and to question even the logic of anti-communist or anti-homosexual arguments is to commit treason.

For those interested in facts instead of hysterical outbursts, the communist party of the U. S. A. provides in its constitution that no individual who engages in sexual perversions is eligible for membership. This cannot be brushed aside with the argument that communists aren't to be trusted anyway and their constitution has no relation to their practices. Information in any good library shows that wholesale expulsions from the communist party have occurred because of homosexuality of members.

It would be ridiculous to argue that there are no homosexuals who are communists. We know that in the past there have been some who were, and it is likely that there are still undetected homosexuals within the organization. It is hard to imagine the mental convulsions such people must experience in attempting to reconcile the irreconciliable contradictions in their thinking. Yet their mental gymnastics are not surprising when one remembers the numbers of our minority functioning within religious organizations which either deny their existence or consign them to the deepest, darkest pits of hell.

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