Homosexuality

Do you think homosexuality wrong or a sin?

Of course, homosexuality is not a sin. A person cannot control his innate likes and dislikes. One can control be­havior, but not feelings. The law is barbaric when it sends a deviate to prison.

Would I appoint a homosexual or a Lesbian to a posi­tion on my school staff? No. But that is not saying that homo­sexuality is wrong; it is only saying that it is inconvenient. For in the present state of society the homosexual is a pariah —he has to hide his nature. Because of society’s attitude, he is seldom happy. He has to keep his sex life secret and de­vious, and he constantly risks blackmail.

We are all bisexual; we are all part man and part woman. Heterosexuality is the norm, the biological basis of life. But no one with a healthy attitude to sex will condemn the homosexual or be shocked by homosexuality. Surely, private homosexual activity can harm no one not directly involved; so why all the fuss and feathers and the criminal proceedings against consenting adults.

We have crying evils: our insane divorce laws, our cruel laws against homosexuals, our laws against abortion (in spite of the fact that there are thousands of illegal and dangerous abortions every year.) But for a legislator to vote for a humane law about abortion might result in the loss of the Catholic vote or the Baptist vote or the what not vote. That is why crying evils take at least three generations to be abolished by law.

My son, William, now 17, pals around with a group of boys who somehow mis-impress me. Some of them seem effeminate. I haven’t any direct evidence of homosexuality or misbehavior of any sort, but I am in great fear that my son may be lured into becoming a homosexual. There’s so much of it in this country now. Is there any way in which I can detect such a tendency in the boy? And, if so, is there anything that we can do about it?

You can’t do anything about it by talking or advising. Every one of us has a homosexual potential, and too many situations go to develop that component—worst of all, our segregated schools. Sex must go somewhere; too often, homosexual relationships are formed under conditions of sexual segregation. But homosexuality can develop, too, in a so-called co-ed school, where boys and girls mix only in classes. Real co-education is, to me, the ideal way to coun­teract homosexuality.

No one definitely knows what causes a man to become a homo, or causes a woman to become a Lesbian. A common theory is that the boy has an unsatisfactory father, and is forced to channel too much love to his mother; then the incest factor makes the mother taboo, and that taboo carries over indiscriminately to all women. But I have often noticed that a homo, who has no use for girls, is most attentive and tender with older women.

No parent has the power to abolish those situations that tend to encourage the homosexual element: armies, segregated schools, prisons.

When you complain about your son’s living largely in a gang of youths, I am compelled to guess that your boy feels estranged from you and that he is rebelling against your authority. Most homos of both sexes, I daresay, come from unhappy homes. At this juncture, I am sorry to say you can do little about your son’s incipient homosexuality. Psycho­therapy may help the boy to stave oft what you fear.

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