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mattachine REVIEW
It has NOT passed yet.
But Britons Keep Talking About
REPORT
WOLFENDEN By Wes Knight
In an effort to speed consideration of the Wolfenden Committee's recommend. ations by Parliament in England, a Homosexual Law Reform Society has been formed in London. Its objective is to get the law passed so that private acts between consenting adults will no longer be a crime in Great Britain.
Mr. Kenneth Walker, FRCS, is chairman of the Society. A. F. Dyson is sec· retary, and the Rev. A. Hallidie Smith is treasurer. On the executive committee are: The Rev. Canon L. J. Collins; Victor Gollancz; Miss Jacquetta Hawkes, OBE; Dr. E. B. Strauss and C. H. Rolph. Ninety-three leading British clergymen. writers, legislators, attorneys, doctors, sociologists and other public figures have signed up as the Honorary Committee for the Society, with more names being added as time goes on.
The Society believes that England's present laws on homosexual acts are unjust and no longer acceptable to medical opinion, the leading spokesmen of the Christian Churches, or to humane good sease in general.
The following are specific reasons advanced by the new Society favoring an early acceptance of the Wolfenden Committee recommendation (Par. 62: "We accordingly recommend that homosexual behaviour between consenting adults in private should no longer be a criminal offense"):
1. The Wolfenden Committee studied the evidence for three years, and finally agreed upon the recommendation by the decisive majority of 12 to 1.
In the course of the Report, every major reason that is normally given for retaining the law is examined in detail, and rejected. The fears which uninformed opinion has about possible consequences of reform are shown to be ground-
less, and the most important legal distinction between 'sin' and 'crime' is reasserted.
2. Lesbianism is not treated as crime, neither are fornication nor adultery, but homosexuality still remains punishable by law. The Wolfenden Report has emphasized that there is no ground for regarding homosexuality as more socially harmful than these other acts, and that to reserve for it a particular punishment under the criminal law is unreasonable, unjust, and out of touch with modern knowledge.
3. Homosexuality, as the Wolfenden Committee emphasized, is not a disease and there is no reason to suppose it would become more widespread if the law were reformed. It is, rather, the sexual orientation of a small, though not unimportant minority of otherwise normal human beings, and in countries where the law has been amended no increase of any kind has taken place.
4. Homosexuality is not connected in any way with offenses against children. Such crimes are just as likely to be per· petrated by heterosexuals and have nothing to do with the sexual choices of consenting adults. The Wolfenden Committee writes in Par. 57 of the Report: "We are authoritatively informed that a man who has homosexual relations with an adult partner seldom turns to boys... Our evidence, in short, indicates that the fear that the legislation of homosexual acts between consenting adults will lead to similar acts with boys has not enough evidence to justify the treatment of adult homosexual be. haviour in private as a criminal offense, and suggests that it would be more likely that such a change in the law would protect boys rather than endanger them. 5. Intelligent opinion is already very 5
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