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Show TTT ! t i November, 1977 . Payne Cont. provide their grade school boys with an abnormal influence of the feminine model. Should they not eliminate the female teachers to be consistent with their model theory of the feminine influence ducing homosexuals? pro- MARRIAGE AND HOMOSEXUALS When the homosexual student comes into his late teens and early twenties, it can be particularly troubling and often .tragic that he has a foreign and impossible model of heterosexual marriage portrayed to him as the only viable life-styopen to him. Unable to realize any positive life-sty- le alternative, hei attempts the heterosexual route, leaving a path of emotional destruction wherever he goes. The broken lives of girl friends, wives and children are .the actual test- imony of the ADEQUATE 'save our children proponents would perpetuate. Resorting to the argument that children cannot result from a homosexual relationship-therefo- re, proving that homosexuality is wrong and should be outlaw-ed-ar- e they advocating that the homosexual should at-- , tempt marriage and h ave children? How much better off everyone would' be if the homo-sexuwas not encouraged to attempt relationships alien to who he and a I had had I wish is. only someone at that point in my life to show me' that there was a wholesome alternative. I could have saved myself and others a great deal of heartache. This is all that is meant in providing an adequate model for the young people. Those who understand know that it is impossible to recruit heterosexuals into homosexuality and they feel equally strong about the insistence of heterosexuals trying to coerce the young confused homosexual into heterosexuality. Trying to establish sound constructive models only for other young homosexuals is branded as immoral and outlawed, but recruiting homosexuals into heterosexuality is regarded as societys moral duty. Typically, the heterosexual cannot think beyond the stereotype. This prevents him from realizing that the same employment qualifications should and does apply to both the homosexual and heterosexual teacher. Flaunting sexuality either way is inappropriate. One particular student, unable to see how being homosexual and a Mormon can ever be integrated, feels forced to choose and will, within the next few weeks, leac this campus for the safety of the city life with all its dubious influences. Another young man here, who thought that homosexuality meant a life of gay bars, baths, and stands, was understandably unable to discover and establish a satisfactory Though he admits openly that he is homosexual, he has gone into marriage trying, in his -- ..words. toJmake. something pf .... ft m v jm i al le exhi-bitionists- JUST IN: NEW FALL LINE. TROLLEY SQUARE 104 one-nig- (South of Ice Cream Store) I ht life-styl- e. , S' 1 1 I CU ,' v,trWV.v; r - 'A'? v;.' A 1 t V V - ' 4ml V-;-.' ; , t 2j ( 5 iu-i- ; l ',,( ;. o.u J r"( AV?'!Jvj . fifV- A - ; 1 1 1 Vi iJ le Masturbation is sometimes blamed for causing homosexuality. Masturbation has been pointed out as being the cause of almost everything undesirable from falling hair to warts so it is not surprising to find it showing up here. Some church authorities, in interviewing young men, tell them that masturbation will make them become homosexual. President Lee was one. of these. He conceded tyo a close friend, however, that the only thing he knew about homosexuality was what he .had once read in the New York Times article. Misconstruing, the causes of homosexuality here is all too indicative of how desperate, the Brethern are about masturbation, which they are discovering is more than rampant and entirely out of their ability to control. An influential member of the Church went for twelve years without masturbating and was as homosexual afterwards' as he had ever been. I have never found a man who even hinted that masturbation had caused his homosexuality. All have said that abstention from masturbation had definitely increased their homosexual desires. Masturbation is more an expression of one's sexuality, not the cause of it or a host of maladies the Brethern point to. Another causal bugaboo is pornography. This issue is so emotionally charged that most people who have anything to say on it appear patently biased, making it difficult to take their findings seriously. I know of no case where a person says that pornography caused him to become homosexual or even alludes to such. This observation is confirmed by the Presidential Commission on Pornography. Our hysteria over pornography is often more indicative of uncertain sexuality than of higfh morals. I have interviewed a number of homosexuals on the matter of pornography and have found that many of those involved in this recall that their first, and in some cases, abiding interest in pornography had to do with the femalke nude. Recently the father of a 14 year old boy anxiously .queried me about the signifi- cance of his son Vhonits and i j; kcpt Jn. his . bedroom. --.This. vji . AVAILABLE TO THIS, YOUNG MAN. But this is exactly the experience the SPECIALIZING IN SOUTH AMERICAN HANDCRAFT AND ART, i I MASTURBATION CAUSES GAYS? MODELS1 life-sty- have r watched the relationship between him and his wife steadily deteriorate; his wife shows increasing signs of serius emotional difficulties, and who knows what will become of their two young children when the marriage is inevitably dissolved. Is this not the very human debris of immoral behavior which President Oaks speaks of? Cannot a wholesome and constructive be established for the thousands of teenage Mormon homosexuals who are right now struggling desperately for some kind of life that brings together their youthful idealistic testimony of the gospel and who they are? Can we, as a Church, continue to aid and abet the tragic destruction of these young lives and their faith in God? my life. & ic f I |