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by sal mcintire

IT'S CONSITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF MINORITIES, NOT ATHEISM & HOMOSEXUALITY:

The post office stopped issues of 3 beefcake magazines, TRIM, GRECIAN GUILD PICTORIAL, and PHYSIQUE MAN-ual, as "obscene," but the magazines took it up to the U.S. Supreme Court (perhaps learning from ONE's example)-and got a ruling that not one was obscene. And 3 of the Justices held (perhaps just plain tired of post office selfinflatings) that Congress had not given the Postmaster General any power to set up an administrative procedure of his own for determining what is obscene!

By chance, the above ruling happened to be handed down the same day as the famous "school prayer" decision. Then a curious thing happened. The two two decisions got linked in some people's minds.

As NEWSWEEK put it:

Many citizens were infuriated by the fact that in the same prayer-banning session, the Supreme Court had restored postal privileges to three homosexual magazines.

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The implication, of course, is that the Court is for atheism & homosexuality!

Both decisions have to do with the same thing, all right-but that thing is constitutional rights of the individual and of minorities-for which, we think, the Court should be mightily praised, instead of being subjected to ridicule.

Perchance we homosexuals should get snooty and ask for a segregated court calendar. No telling who sloppy-thinking minds might lump us with next!

OH GRANDMA, HOW SECRET & SINISTER YOU LOOK, YOU MUST BE A HOMOSEXUAL!

Masters' boogeyman book, THE HOMOSEXUAL REVOLUTION, had itself a nice little ad in THE NEW YORK TIMES. Masters is of that old familiar watch-out-or-the-secret-

world-homitern-will-get-you school.

To us, of course, that's laughable, but Masters knows that's the way to sell the book to hetero'smaking us secret & sinister. And that is REALLY funny 'cause he bla-

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