Flyer Passed Out by CRH Members at the California State Fair in 1965
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Flyer Passed Out by CRH Members at the California State Fair in 1965
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From private papers of James Waller.
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EVERY TENTH PERSON IS A HOMOSEXUAL
A careful reading of the Kinsey Report and of Statistics compiled by police, doctors, social workers and homosexuals themselves indicates one in ten to be a conservative estimate of the current homosexual population. That is eighteen
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million American men and women.
"The word 'homosexuality' does not denote a course of conduct, but a state of affairs, the state of loving your own, not the opposite sex, it is a state of affairs in nature. One should no more deplore 'homosexuality' than left-handedness. (One can condemn or prohibit acts of course; that is another matter. But one cannot condemn or prohibit homosexuality, as such.)
"Secondly, the label 'homosexuality' is misleading. People are not either homosexual or heterosexual. Most people are predominantly one or the other; most in fact are predominantly heterosexual; many are one or the other; most in fact are predominantly heterosexual; many are predominantly homosexual; many are attracted to both sexes fairly equally and may be pushed one way or the other by circumstances, convenience, and social pressure. Before we assume that homosexuality is bad and heterosexuality is good, we should recognize that homosexuals are no more necessarily promiscuous than heterosexuals are necessarily chaste. They may be similar people (or even, it will be realised, the same person) and have similar moral values. But of course, where a heterosexual finds blessing in marriage, a homosexual cannot; and many of the pressures designed to hold lovers of the opposite sex together have the effect of tearing lovers of the same sex apart; it is hardly surprising then that most homosexual affairs (at least amongst men) are less durable than most heterosexual affairs ... "
Towards a Quaker View of Sex, Friends Home Service Committee, London, 1963.
EVERY TENTH PERSON IS A HOMOSEXUAL
A careful reading of the Kinsey Report and of Statistics compiled by police, doctors, social workers and homosexuals themselves indicates one in ten to be a conservative estimate of the current homosexual population. That is eighteen
Page 2:
million American men and women.
"The word 'homosexuality' does not denote a course of conduct, but a state of affairs, the state of loving your own, not the opposite sex, it is a state of affairs in nature. One should no more deplore 'homosexuality' than left-handedness. (One can condemn or prohibit acts of course; that is another matter. But one cannot condemn or prohibit homosexuality, as such.)
"Secondly, the label 'homosexuality' is misleading. People are not either homosexual or heterosexual. Most people are predominantly one or the other; most in fact are predominantly heterosexual; many are one or the other; most in fact are predominantly heterosexual; many are predominantly homosexual; many are attracted to both sexes fairly equally and may be pushed one way or the other by circumstances, convenience, and social pressure. Before we assume that homosexuality is bad and heterosexuality is good, we should recognize that homosexuals are no more necessarily promiscuous than heterosexuals are necessarily chaste. They may be similar people (or even, it will be realised, the same person) and have similar moral values. But of course, where a heterosexual finds blessing in marriage, a homosexual cannot; and many of the pressures designed to hold lovers of the opposite sex together have the effect of tearing lovers of the same sex apart; it is hardly surprising then that most homosexual affairs (at least amongst men) are less durable than most heterosexual affairs ... "
Towards a Quaker View of Sex, Friends Home Service Committee, London, 1963.
Citation
“Flyer Passed Out by CRH Members at the California State Fair in 1965”, The Council on Religion and the Homosexual, LGBTQ Religious Archives Network, accessed May 18, 2024, https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/exhibits/show/crh/item/1803.