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Big Al Whittle Clerical Abuse of Children (75* d) RE: Clerical Abuse of Children 01 Jul 23


Well I'm sorry but people are more diverse than is convenient.

Quite why not only our society but every society produces Ted Bundys, Heinrich Himmlers, Jimmy Savilles - Idon't know. But that is my observation.

I do remember that my Dad , an ex CID detective earnestly believed what Dr. Webster (who along with Keith Simpson, Francis Camps and Sydney Smith were the top brains in forensic science in the 1950's) that homosexuality was a dread illness and that anal intercourse would inflict ultimately fatal wounds.

I have seen so much change, in my lifetime. of 'educated opinion' on the subject of sexuality that I don't think its wise to be too sure of anything. Certainly Ru Paul's Drag Race and First Dates including gays as mainstream entertainment, weren't on the horizon when I was born.

I remember the disension caused by a book called Towards a Quaker View of Sex, which called for toleration of gays in the early 1960's . I was front page news and in our little Quaker Meeting House in Spalding, it caused outrage. Although some of the elders were surely gay.

I don't know where we'll be in another 50 years, however I know I wouldn't care to guess.


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