AUGMENTED FAMILIES

J. P. Starr in a letter accompanying his article had, in part, this to say about his progressive ideas leveled against organized superstition: "As I see it, for about 900 years, or roughly since Hildebrand's time, the Catholic Church has enjoyed the economic benefits that flow from the practice of homosexuality (a monastery or convent is a strikingly efficient producer of wealth) and at the same time kept Christendom in poverty and helplessness by inducing the laity to breed.

"Moderns need to cast about for means of overcoming the advantage that an immortal religious corporation holds over mortal people and short living institutions such as the heterosexual family. Unfortunately, most homosexual pairs that I am acquainted with, and various other similar pairs, are practicing some sort of design-for-living that bears a resemblance, if only a remote one, to the little-family set up that I mention (and deplore) in my article. I would be glad to have other thinkers assess the proposal that I now make."

ante

by J. P. Starr

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