Candidate On Morals

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31226, 25 November 1966, Page 14

Candidate On Morals

The Keynesian Progress Party candidate for St. Albans, Mr M. D. Sadler, said last evening that a paragraph in "The Press” reporting bis remarks on sexual morality to a public meeting on Wednesday could be a misleading summary of his views. Mr Sadler said that a fair outline of his argument on illegitimacy and sex morals was as follows:

“I criticised ‘purely physical relationships’ and said I thought such relationships were related to the excessively materialistic emphasis of our society and education system. I said education should encourage young people to develop their own ideas and opinions and to be more conscious of themselves as distinctive individuals. I said there was reason to believe that first sexual affairs tended to have a special emotional quality. “This, I suggested, made it desirable to have such a first relationship with a really compatible person, with someone who would make a suitable marriage partner. Having thus indicated a positive basis for restraint and discrimination. I then briefly criticised points of view having a merely negative and contingent foundation, more or less along the lines reported, although I cannot remember referring to ‘religious ideas’ on the subject”