Granted that the resulting morality must be all-inclusive and indivisible; yet the state and local jurisprudence must contain allowances for PARTICULARS even as are granted religious (such as Christian Scientists, Jehova's Witnesses), national and social (such as trado unions) minorities currently. Such PARTICULARS, in my opinion, more correctly should have boon and should bo the first concern of the homophile minority publications and conventions of today and tomorrow.

In this direction, a resolute cleansing of our own ooncoptions and intellectual processes of moral evaluations would seem to be in order. Number one on such a list would be, I think, the rooting out of the mechanical and wholly fallacious habit of comparing and/or evaluating our minority patterns of behavior in terms of heterophilo values and/or conventions.

Homophile promiscuity, for example, may not be adumbrated with that form of behavior excoriated by the heterophile community. It does not carry the same connotations of disaster and dissolution with us as it MUST with them, for reasons too obvious to further discuss.

That homophile promiscuity is wasteful of time and energy which might be much more profitably spent is a sentiment not necessary for us to belabor. But immoral, in the spiritual and social criminality of the heterophilic infraction's intent, it is not! Homophile promiscuity, then, simply becomes for us ono of our several mean-average deviant behaviors FOR WHICH WE MAKE NO APOLOGIES. Occasional multiplicity of sexual expression, as a casual variation of "otherwise devoted couple" behavior, might be another such. Yet such deviances as these, and others, construed from our minority behavior values cannot in any way be measured or weighed in current heterophilic moral "koine" (or should we say coinage?) because neither the socially-evaluated purposes, nor objectives, of heterophilic sexual behavior were ever construed to correspond with our expectations or vice versa.

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Thus we must realize all our heterophile sympathizers and fellow-travellers notwithstanding that without sharing AS HOMOPHILES the indivisible civil privileges of the sanctity of private conscience, the invincibility

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