“Public tolerance” of homosexuality

Press, 19 October 1978, Page 13

“Public tolerance” of homosexuality

Sir, — The Gay Rights people have really given > their show away. The wave . ,of letters when, as they sup- ‘ pose, they are “repressed” : I leaves me wondering as to 1 I what extent they will not ionly practise but also propagate their actions when, as they hope, they are liberated. Their news statement [that sparked off this corresipondence stated that Parlia[rhentarians and police were i “basically intolerant persons.” If this intolerant, I indiscriminate and erroneous ! nonsense is an example of I tolerance by a group who 'seek the public’s tolerance, [then an intolerant reaction (should not surprise them. — 'Yours, etc.,

D. I. STEDMAN. I I October 17, 1978. I 1 I ' t 1 Sir. — Disregarding Vari-1 ( an .1. Wilson’s own one-man-[, .band literary efforts to dis-', ■credit homosexuals. 1 count.] 11l letters to .the Editor on|. : this subject Over the last i I .four days. This is quite aj ilnumber; certainly more than I [the Nationa i-Labour .'squabble usually gets. Being mathematically inclined, 1 ■ have also counted 10 of them which are for homosexuality being legalised, and one which is against. A quick trip to a pocket calculator assures me that this is 91 per cent df a sample pop- . illation. Now I am quite sure • ithat this is not a representa- .; tive sample: but, by the . same token, I am also sure !' that a sample of 11 is more [.representative than a sample j j of one, namely Varian J. ! [Wilson. — Yours, etc., JOHN DICKSON. ■ October 17, 1978.

j Sir, — What a pity B. [McCallum has not read ■ Plato, but gets his Plato [from a William Barclay, who has not read Plato’s I two ■ greatest dialogues, the Symposium and the Phaedrus. All the ancient Greek gods loved males sexually.. Apollo loved Prince Hyacinth. Plato, himself, loved five young males. The very soul of Greek culture at its zenith was homosexuality. It was that which imbued all works of art with their sensuous, classical perfection, which is admired and treasued right down to the present. So far from the Greeks’ being enslaved by homosexuality, it was two homosexuals who set them free (Harmodius and Aristogiton). Thus, is the wool drawn over the eyes of the ignorant. — Yours’, etc., PAUL MALING. October 17, 1978.