cept that it was a foul disease. He referred the audience

to the Wolfenden Report. Lyn said that love was a good thing in itself and didn't need an excuse like making babies for a justification.

There was an interim where questions were directed from the floor at the various speakers, who wrote down the questions and attempted to answer them along with their rebuttals.

In her rebuttal Mrs. Vostwald asked, "What is sin?" and answered with the statement, "The majority decides it." She cited the example that at one time slave trading was not considered a sin. She said that sin has changed and has many names in many countries.

Dr. Briggo said he felt that the heterosexual union could be the happiest relationship, but as a matter of fact it hadn't been. He said this had been due mostly to the long tradition of woman supposing to be a slave to man. He felt that until this great injustice had been wiped out, until women had progressed to where they could be as equal friends to men and vice versa, that great unhappiness would still obtain in heterosexual marriages.

Lynn said that a democratic society such as ours could only remain healthy by having a variety of expressions, including the sexual. He mentioned that in the Bible there was only one ecstatic account of heterosexual love, The Song of Solomon, as opposed to the stories of Ruth and Naomi, David and Jonathan, and Jesus and John. In the latter the pure love for brethren was extolled. According to Lyn, Jesus had nothing good to say about heterosexual marriage except that if you already were, not to get divorced. Paul's view was an essentially negative one, that it was "better to marry than burn."

Mr. Russell, in his rebuttal, mentioned "society's álusters of expectations" and stated that "in our society it is undeniable that the heterosexual way is the better adjustment." He said there were no statistics on homosexual divorce, but that he was sure it was just as high; that in the case of syphilis, you didn't have to experience it to understand it. Mrs. Vostwald interjected a

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