are Law, for the offense, and not for the condition in which they were created. And Miami can better put its civic house in order when politicians stop using homo-baiting as a smoke screen to cover up more lucrative vices and rougher scandals.

Many men before Mr. Aronovitz have championed liberty. in one area and been blind to it in another: slaveholding signers of the Declaration of Independence; the liberal but anti-Semitic Voltaire; anti-Nazis often blind to Stalin's equal inhumanity; civil rights de fenders who ignore raids on homosexu als; and those who decry conformist trends in all but sex matters, urging pious plans for psychoconcentration camps where doctors (who admit they don't know how) will attempt to 'cure' sexual non-con formists.

This is the irony that often makes yesterday's liberal tomorrow's reactionary. The application of moral standards does move, by jumps and jerks. In 1919 Abe Aronovitz was radical to say 'Mister' to a Negro. (Every body 'knew' all Negroes were born sex-criminals.) Today much of that battle is won or winning. Now it is radical to suggest that homosexuals also be 'called Mister.' Nearly everybody nowadays, including Mr. Aronovitz, ‘knows' all homosexuals are sex criminals.

That some few (like many heterosexuals) offend with minors, is no valid ground for general attacks on homosexual s. This is as foolish as the Southern canard that every Negro is a rapist. It's time the two lies were laid together.

And for the Miami News, et. al.: Could we suggest you might report the other side a bit; how average homosexuals actually live, what they want out of life? And if you should try to give this a whirl don't do it the easy way, by merely edging into a bar, cornering the first loudmouthed queen' in sight and quoting that one to represent the group.

What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today, that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have.....achieved all that is noble in the history of the

world.

John Ballantine Gough

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