21 JANUARY 1955, Page 14

Stn,—Your article last week entitled 'Homo- sexuality' . (significantly anonymous)

was an open incitement to crime and as such should be repudiated by you unequivocably.

You must know that most of your readers believe that sodomy is not only an offence against the law of God and this country, but the natural law itself. That is why, except in times of decadence, it has Been regarded by all people with horror and loathing since the days of Sodom.

To confuse genuine love and sympathy for the sinner with condonation of his unnatural vice is inexcusably immature, but this may account for the prevalent tendency to give this sin a Greek name and seek to cloak it with respectability.

If you continue to espouse this wickedness I shall not be the only one of your regular readers to recoil from your paper with disgust.

I challenge your biological homosexual to have the courage to drop his anonymity.

No doubt, as the writer is not afraid to call a vice by its proper name and to sign his own,

you will not regard this letter as fit fisir publica- tion.—Yours faithfully, A. N. B. BIRCH Barn Close, Fish bourne, Isle of Wight