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area of laws relating to sexual behaviour. A few outstanding authorities have clearly pointed out the importance of a drastic revision of this legal code. But it is so much simpler to let a few policemen make a few arrests than it is to face the difficult task of revising an ancient and outmoded legal system. Unfortunately though it is so much more expensive! And all of the above considerations particularly apply to psychotherapy for the homosexual with problems in life adjustment. The extensive bibliographies of group therapy articles and books, to take one particular example, are conspicuously meager in any really detailed references to group therapy with sexual deviants. These and many other examples from the fields of sociology, psychology, counseling and anthropology could be adduced to prove that it is simpler to "scapegoat" than to study. But once more there is a loss-the loss of valuable knowledge that would extend its influence far beyond the group under study, adding valuable insights to many broader questions and fields.

In a broader, more socioligical sense, the rejection of a minority group has further far-reaching implications. The fact of second-class citizenship for any group, be it the Negro people, the Jewish people, an unpopular religious or political group or the homosexual minority, weakens the fabric of all citizenship. We cannot practice discrimination while preaching equality before the law, without breeding cynicism and contempt, not only in the minority but in the majority itself. And contempt for law leads to its disintegration as a force in society.

So far this discussion has centered on the social and cultural effects of rejection. In addition, rejection undoubtedly has an effect on the personality and life adjustment of the rejector. One of these effects pertains to the results of hating, scorning or rejecting any individual or situation on the basis of a pre-formed stereotype. It is certainly clear that in so reacting, the individual exhibits a very poor ability to perceive and examine reality. Undoubtedly neurotic and immature personality patterns are the basic cause of poor grasp of reality but social stereotyping encourages a lack of any real examination and study. An example can be found in the loud bragging of an individual that he can recognize all homosexuals on sight. Society's concurrence in this absurdity has the effect of perpetuating his avoidance of looking at individuals and relationships as they really are a habit that may well lead him to disaster in his own relationships with his wife, his children and his friends Another effect on the personality of the rejector may wel! be that his rejection and hatred may be a defense against examining the true causes of the problem within himself. Just as society evades an examina tion of the tensions and conflicts within itself by selecting scapegoats, so also may the individual. It is almost axiomatic in dealing therapeutically with individual patients that emotionaliy charged reactions denote anxieties and fears within. But when society itself buttresses and encourages those reactions, self-examination is avoided and problems go unsolved.