searchers to start research work with the homosexual without assuming that homosexuality was a form of mental illnesa. But, she pointed out, she cannot know what her data will tell her when all the facts are compiled.

She agreed with the "need for impartial sex education of young people", but asked where do you get the people and when do you do it? There is a need for the opportunity for young people to discuss the problem, she statod. The problem is not to suppress information but to help the adolescent in the right way. "We know SO little about sex in general, not only homosexuality," she said. The real problem is the utilization of what information we already have.

The Committee's statement about "the right to defense from faulty court testimony" brings up the question as to who is to judge what is faulty, she pointed out. As homosexuals can you not be biased? Dr. Hooker said she would like to see the word "faulty" stricken. She would like to see the statement made that "science should be given freedom by heterosexual society to investigate homosexuality without fear of consequences."

She concluded by asking the group to "trust science and scientists a little more than you do. Hope that what you are doing here may make scientists more able to work in the field, and recognize when you ask for unbiased help from heterosexuals that you too are biased."

DOB MAKES OFFICIAL STATEMENT

At the conclusion of Dr. Hooker's remarks Logg asked if any of the commentators wished to add anything. None did. However, Jaye Bell, national president of DOB, asked if she might speak. The following is the verbatim toxt of her remarks:

"This project was first presented to us via the mails in the form of a pamphlet entitled 'Bill of Rights'. After first reading and discussing it we said to ourselves, 'Why?' Either the se are rights we already have, or they are rights which cannot be asked because to do so would be to demand that people have the attitudes we prescribe for them. One cannot demand or legislate attitudes.

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