GUILT AND THE HOMOSEXUAL

RT. REV. THOMAS MARTIN and FATHER BERNARD NEWMAN

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Certain Christians of the Orient, never influenced by the inquisition or later puritanism, give us an opportunity to see how many trends of religious thought have been led far afield. Varied interpretations, mistranslations and twistings of the words of Jesus the Christ cause many people to wonder just what is right. By our nature all of us who are sincere prefer to do what is good. Yet, what is good? "Right and good are the law to one's inner self, that innermost voice or urge." Not wantonness; far from it. It is the natural desires and traits a person is known to possess without influence or national custom.

To go back before the time of Christ, we find in the Bhagavad-Gita, Lesson XVIII, verse 47: "There is more happiness in doing one's own law without excellence, than in doing another's law well. In following the natural God-given traits one is never strained in his conscience." Not all of us are students and quite a few fail to comprehend mechanics, so in our work we progress when we follow our aptitude; that is when we listen to that inner voice. So, when following this method regarding our expressions and actions in love we go forward, evading the narrow path-

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