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by sal mcintire

A BLITHELY ONE-SIDED PRESS:

A visitor from Mars landing in California and reading local newspapers the end of last December could hardly help but ask: is California's Supreme Court composed mainly of moronic degenerates deliberately seekings to push vice, prostitution, and homosexuality? And if they are not, then why is there no mention in a single paper to that effect, why not a single good word for them? And if they aren't trying to push vice, why doesn't anyone say what they are pushing?

Like civil liberties maybe?

When Attorney Burton Marks of Beverly Hills appealed Carol Lane's case, probably nobody dreamed the State Supreme Court might declare LA's "resorting laws" void. Miss Lane had been convicted for merely going from her livingroom to her bedroom for sexual intercourse with a man not her husband.

In effect, the Court said that since the state statutes cover sexual offenses, a city or county has no business superimposing their own laws.

Biggest squawk came from LA Police Chief Parker. He yelled about prosecuting merely under the state statutes because, he says, as they now stand they "provide a Bill of Rights for prostitutes and a Bill of Rights for homosexuals."

Well, if Chief Parker thinks California state laws are so outrageously liberal, we wonder what he

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would say of our draft of a Bill of Rights for homosexuals which was the theme of our 1961 Midwinter Institute! And he must have fainted dead away on hearing about Illinois being the first state to adopt the longstanding recommendation of the American Law Institute and making sex between two consenting adults in private no business of the law!

SHORTARM INSPECTION FOR GIRL ATHLETES:

During the last Olympic Games some newspaper printed rumors that one of the British girl athletes had male characteristics. Now the Royal Society of Medicine has disclosed two cases of girl athletes. who started turning into men. Mr. Jack Crump, Secretary of the British Amateur Athletic Board, read the Royal Society's evidence and immediately proposed an international medical panel to make sure girls are girls before each meet. Mr. Crump, obviously, is a man to watch.

MORE UNEARNED INCOME:

The American Psychoanalytic Association held its first symposium on overt female homosexuality in NY and says:

1) Female homosexuality is increasing.

2) This is partly due to the increase in male homosexuality from "a compensating drive in women."

3) Male homosexuality has risen

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