Sir: Your leading article on the DHSS's wrongly-based Aids campaign
was admir- able until you concluded that 'Aids does not make the average homosexual a danger to the general public and so cannot justify the law's intrusion into his life.' Although it could be argued that teaching children about homosexuality may well give them Aids, it is not Aids that justifies the repeal of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, but the need for the law to engender a stable society.
You wrote wisely that man's morality 'does not simply consist in not harming others; it depends on his acting in a way which befits his humanity.' Immoral laws encourage immoral behaviour, with the Abortion Act yet another example. It was naive of legislators to expect that the Sexual Offences Act 1967 would not lead both to homosexuals flaunting their per- version and to propaganda amongst chil- dren. For although homosexual behaviour is in law immoral, if gay is legal it is but a short step to 'gay is good', and if gay is good then why should it not be advertised abroad?
But of course it is easy to be wise after the event, and in reality we can only start from here. A vast industry now depends on legal buggery, with 'gay' tourist agencies, clubs, hotels, leather shops, and now cqn- dom manufacturers and drug companies. There would be resistance to repeal of the 1967 Act from these as well as from Labour politicians (although the latter are a declin- ing force). So it becomes essential both to emphasise the link between buggery and Aids and to stifle the 'gays' of new blood, if the expression does not fall too awkwardly. Lord Halsbury's Bill to prevent homosex- ual propaganda by local authorities is a step in the right direction; another would be a commitment by the Government not to allow its departments or quangos to present homosexuality in a positive light in school sex education.
When the Inner London Education Au- thority sets up a club for 'gay' 16-year-olds and employs an officer to work with 'gay' youngsters, it is clear that the Left regard this area as a key to the destabilisation of society. We cannot expect 'the gays' to be discreet. The law must intrude.
Stephen Green
181 Wellfield Road, Streatham, London SW16
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