EDITORIAL

There is a play on Broadway called The Deputy which has a message for homosexuals. It is about the slaughter of the Jews by the Germans during World War II and the failure of Pope Pius XII to speak out against the mass murder. Most critics agree that the play is not anti-Catholic, but shows to all people the failure of the Pope to stand up for truth and "right" at all costs. The Pope, in this case, had many "good" reasons for not speaking out in protest against the killings, and so do most men who find themselves in similar situations. But the fact remains that the man who claimed to be God's representative on earth failed to protest the most un-Godly acts of our times.

Another angle to the murders was the attitude of the Jews who were being killed. Even when they realized beyond a doubt what was going to happen to them, the Jews did nothing to prevent the Germans from carrying out the murders. In fact, the Jews helped in their own extermination by not resisting and fighting back, and they marched quietly and in an orderly way to the gas chambers. They dug their own graves so that the German soldiers could be free to go fight the war and conquer the world.

Are not many homosexuals today in the same position as were the Pope and the German Jews? Why do many homosexuals make it easy or even help when their government takes away their rights? Why do many homosexuals remain silent in the face of police brutality, invasion of privacy and other violations against their persons? If the homosexual obeys unjust laws and orders, fails to protest, and lets his rights be taken away, then he is the same as the Germans who killed the Jews, the Pope who didn't try to stop the killings, and the Jews who let themselves be killed; he is then in a situation, partly of his own making, which in many ways is as horrible as any dictator could make. Any homosexual who lets another man dictate how he is to live his life is less than a man. And this is why many homosexuals are unhappy. They know what they are and are not, and it has nothing to do with their sex life.

William Edward Glover Associate Editor

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