know I sure couldn't love another guy like I would a girl. The thought is somehow revolting to me. To me, that is. But if another guy feels different than that, is he wrong? Is it O.K. to have odd political views, or different religious convictions and shout it to the world even to openly seek others who might feel the same way? But when you feel different about sex oh, that's wrong, that's sinful, that's a crime against well, against something. The law, I guess."
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My heart was full, my joy boundless. My dear, My dear, sweet, wonderful son. There are people who would say well, after
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all, he was brought up to it, conditioned, as it were. Naturally, he would condone a way of life, having known no other. But he instinctively knows another! He is normal. As he says, in spite of living with it, he doe sn't have it in him.
Yes, Hap and I spoke personally that night, and the subject of my relationship with Claire was the main point of issue. But I needn't have been afraid.
We were still at it when Claire came home, and for the first time Hap brought her into the discussion. We talked inversion and the psychology of it. We expounded theories of the causes of homosexuality. We discussed, into the wee small hours, every fact and fancy of homosexuality and sex deviation that we had ever heard of, or read, or known. We couldn't give any answers. To us, To us, so many que sti ons remain unanswerable. But I did have some questions of my own answered that night. I find I have a very normal, intelligent, understanding son, who has decided to learn psychiatry, and his aim in his future profession will be to try to help or if you will cure, homosexuals. And perhaps, God willing, a like enthusiasm for understanding will be taken up by others throughout the world, to final. ly put an end to the debasement and shame of being "Queer".
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