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many areas.

If so, old Beelzebub to stage his
specials, has employed the corniest
scriptwriters in the last 20 years.

What a spectacle. First, Svend
Robinson, M.P., to wild applause,
publicly announcing the stale news
that he is ‘‘gay."*

A few days later, another cou-
rageous battler for social justice,
Laurier La Pierre, confessed that
he, too, was ‘ga: .”"

If you missed the televised spec-
tacle at which La Pierre confessed
what a great many people already
knew, you missed the greatest
comedy show since Laurel and
Hardy.

There was La Pierre, fingers up
over his face, bawling his eyes out
(finally telling the truth sometimes
has that traumatic effect upon
some people) and bouncing around
in a mild fit of hysteria; while
preacher White Swan Robinson,
having succeeded in persuading La
Pierre to also make a public ass of
himself, put a firm two-handed
grip on the blubbering convert,
cither to reassure him or prevent
him from bolting the stage.

It was purely wonderful: televi-
sion evangelism, not in praise of
the Lord, but in praise of buggery,
sodomy and fellatio, with God
knows what as a side dish.

But hold: this may be an unfair
judgment of Svend and Laurier.

Their urge to be completely
honest (not just the truth, but the
whole truth) has so far only com-
pelled them to admit (oh, these
face-saving euphemisms) that they
are ‘‘gay.”’ Under a little prod-
ding, each conceded that yes, that
meant ‘‘homosexual.”’

The trouble with that is (as with
the vague term ‘sexual prefer-
ence’’) it leaves us completely
uninformed about what these guys
are really up to, or down to, as the
case may be.

Now that they have carefully or-
chestrated their ‘‘sexual prefer-
ence”’ bit on to the centre stage of
national affairs, with political
agitation for more “‘gay rights”
their avowed aim, we are surely
entitled to examine the fine print,
or the concealed conditions of
their fine, noble pitch.

Note, very carefully, that Svend
and Laurier have confessed only to
unrefined, unspecific, vague
euphemistic things such as ‘‘gay””
and “homosexual”; though Svend
did volunteer he would like to hold
his male lover’s hand in Stanley
Park. i

Neither of them have confessed
to engaging in sodomy, buggery or
fellatio, which most homosexuals
engage in, uniess they are chaste.

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Neither of them have confessed
to being ‘‘chicken hawks" a term
for male homasexuals who cruise
in cars looking for young boys
they can seduce with money into
sexual acts.

Neither of them have insisted
that they are chaste homosexuals.

I think these boys expect us to
stand up and applaud them for be-
ing honest with us and telling the
truth. That might happen, if they
ever muster the courage to tell us
the whole truth about themselves
and the bill of goods they are
promoting.

The real problem is that some
homosexual practices are literally
unspeakable.

You will not cven find buggery
or fellatio included in many dic-
tionaries, let alone a plain English
description of what these poor,
frantic sweating beggars reduce
themselves to in pursuit of these
forms of sexual gratification they
call love.

The publisher of the North
Shore News has more courage than
any publisher I have ever met; yet [
would not abuse his courage and
subject him to decent human
outrage by asking him to print my
graphic description of what un-
chaste homosexual love, or
chicken-hawking actually involve.

Yet how can we understand the
times we live in, or resist the decay
which is clearly infecting western
civilization, if we are constantly
fed upon euphemisms and not
blunt, accurate and painful
speech?

The media, from CBC’s Barbara
Frum down, sat in wide-eyed ap-
preciation of the honesty of
Robinson and La Pierre. Not one
of them had the journalistic guts,
or integrity, to ask them to stop
hiding in euphemisms and
describe, if not chaste, exactly
what they do.

Svend and Laurier, both excus-
ing themselves they were born the
way they are and therefore have no
choice about how they conduct
themselves, insist the rest of us
should give them special protec-
tion,

What is extraordinary is that La
Pierre told an Ottawa meeting
that; ‘‘God never frowned on gay
love... he blessed it. I tell that to
the religious perverts who run our
society.”

If there are sexual perverts,
Robinson and La Pierre may be
such, unless they declare they are
chaste.

God help us all, in this wonder-
ful perversion of standards and
values.

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