SIR,—Isn't it time the John Gordon Society had another meeting?
May I suggest that Mr. Gordon himself be invited to talk on 'Ethics in Journalism'? Such a talk would be interesting, in view of his article on what he describes as 'The Pansies' Charter' in the Sunday Express of September 8 which must have broken all records for ignorance, prejudice and dishonesty.
Ignorance one expects; prejudice one is used to; but dishonesty . . .
Gordon wrote : 'What a situation it would be if he [the Archbishopof Canterbury when he comments on the Wolfenden Report] were to find homosexual be- haviour in private acceptable, but divorce still an unforgivable sin.'
Is it too much to expect a journalist who writes for a paper that is apparently read by the middle classes to be able to distinguish between sin against God and crime against society? Church leaders and spokesmen of Christian organisations must despair a comment- ing upon anything to the press if journalists are capable of interpreting the Church of England Moral Welfare Council's commendation of the Wolfenden Report as condoning homosexual acts.
Is it just possible that in God's eyes selfishness, meanness, mental cruelty and DowNarour DISHONESTY are worse sins than homosexual acts between con- senting adults?—Yours faithfully, NICOLAS STACEY
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