THE WOLFENDEN DEBATE
SIR,—Apropos Taper's unstinted praise of Dr. Houghton's contribution to the Wolfenden debate, I find it hard to accept as rational, or, as a champion of reason against emotion; a man who' can argue that 'homosexuality is biologically wrong,' as he did on that occasion. Biology is a science and as such its job is to analyse and not to judge. It has no place in the making of moral decisions. Biologically speaking, no doubt, the institution of Christian marriage, with its ideas of one man, one woman, and no pre-marital in- tercourse, is unnatural and perverse (sic). But we judge and approve it by moral, not scientific stan- dards, just as we should judge and disapprove homo- sexuality. It is difficult not to take this as a blatantly irrational and emotionally charged argument, such as Taper presumes Dr. Houghton to eschew.—Yours faithfully,
New College, Oxford
JEREMY HARDIE
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