line which all the authorities have set between what they call Right and what they call Wrong.

In such crises, people react variously, and on different levels of consciousness. For many, the tabu will stifle the desire, and perhaps even disguise its nature. But for most, the rule must be broken, and the act must be given context. Either the sin must be repented, or the break somehow justified. The penitents need not concern us here, except to comment that repentence can only satisfy those who merely "go astray" occasionally.

Most homosexuals become inured to breaking the rules. They must somehow reject what they learned as children and still hear repeated about them. But when people break rules and know they have done so, and are not sorry, they usually are forced to decide that the rule is either irrelevant or wrong. Here, a new factor enters. They put their own judgement above the rules, which represent society's judgment, in short, they become rebels.

Therefore, homosexuals are natural rebels. Born or made, they are constitutionally incapable of being sincere conformists. They may try desperately, as many in fact do, to conform in little things, to put on the show of being just like everyone else; but in the basic "facts of life" they are inescapably different, and through all the veneer of normality with which they may seek to cover themselves, they must suspect that this one essential difference colors their outlook on all other matters.

Because he is clanless, set apart, a lone individual searching for others of his kind (if he even suspects their existence) he must come to judge the world, its morals, customs and beliefs by his own nature, or else, in contrition reject and despise his own nature.

Some make the judgments easily, unaware that they've done any such thing.

They'll drop their religion or its practice, casually, say the-hell-with-the-law, and go blindly on thinking of themselves as conformists.

Some will limit their non-conformity to sex and its most inescapable consequences, such as telling a "white lie" now and then, or on the other hand, shocking an acquaintance with the sudden truth.

But most people require a certain consistency, superficial at least, in their attitudes. The rejection of some of the rules leaves gaping holes in the concept of orderly society. Anyone much motivated by consistency must begin examining other parts of the social picture with a jaundiced eye. And if one reads any of history, he is likely to come by the opinion that the world owes as much to the rule-breakers as to the rule-keepers. He will then become a rebel in principle. He will seek his own standards of good and true and beautiful and just, or may even reject standards entirely. Liberty will become his aim and cause; conformity his enemy.

This, I say, is the natural course for homosexuals. But few follow it. Some become merely anti-social, flaunting the laws, hating the cops, flagrantly trying to shock people for the fun it gives, and likely quite intolerant of any variant habits they don't happen to be personally addicted to. This is, the homosexual

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