Permissiveness
Sir,—Vernon Wilkinson maintains mutually contradictory aims (September 19): (1) The prevention of the “debasement of the human being,” and (2) the continuation of the treatment of the human being as criminal merely because of his sexual orientation. This is the price he wishes homosexual scapegoats to pay for heterosexual permissiveness. Homosexuality is correlative with heterosexuality, not with “bestiality, incest between adults, surrogacy, cloning, hybridisation, etc.,” as he suggests. There has been no homosexual permissiveness here. The Crimes Act 1961 makes landlords criminally liable for homosexual tenants. More recent legislation provides for traffic officers’ instant access to Wanganui Computer files, random stopping, arrest, handcuffing; confiscation of the motor vehicle upon conviction for homosexual intent or act; selective conviction (where heterosexuality is immune) under the Indecent Publications Act; S.I.S. surveillance; computer surveillance of homosexuals attempting to leave or enter New Zealand; job discrimination. Immorality consists not in being different, but in not allowing others to be so. — Yours, etc.,
PAUL MALING. September 20, 1985.
Permissiveness
Press, 24 September 1985, Page 10
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