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...Great nations have fallen and empires decayed because corruption became socially acceptable." So warned London's Daily Mail when the government-sponsored Wolfenden report on sex recommended going harder on prostitutes but making homosexual practice involving consenting adult males no longer a crime. In the 14 months since then, with the help of leaders in the opposition Labor Party who feel the same way, Home Secretary R. A. Butler has managed to avoid a parliamentary debate on the subject. Last week, after assuring himself that Laborites were not longing for action now either, Butler rose in the House...
...archbishop opposed artificial insemination. Rightly so. He also firmly supported the view that homosexuality was immoral and ought to be eradicated. Considering the medical support for the Wolfenden recommendations, is it not possible that here, as in the case of nuclear warfare, scientists have opened doors with no regard for the reasons that impel caution...
...rich man's dinner table, the most hotly debated subject in Britain for weeks past has been homosexuality. The question: Should homosexual acts between consenting adults be taken off the list of statutory crimes in Britain? Last September a special governmental committee headed by Sir John Wolfenden declared that they should. So did many medical men and most of the intelligentsia. Last week, before galleries crowded with spectators (most of them women), Britain's House of Lords gravely debated the Wolfenden recommendations. "Many hesitate," said Labor's Roman Catholic Lord Pakenham, "lest an act of legal toleration...
...might be expected, the Archbishop of Canterbury is against sin, but he is against it in a special way. Last week Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher added his voice to the growing body of British opinion in favor of the Wolfenden Report (TIME, Sept. 16), which recommended that 1) homosexuality between consenting adults no longer be considered a crime, and 2) that since little could be done about the prostitutes that swarm over London, perhaps their fines should be increased to ?10 ($28) for a first offense. Dr. Fisher's reason for giving the report his qualified endorsement: he approves...
Agreeing, in principle, with the Wolfenden Report's strictly limited premise that the law must confine itself to preserving public order and decency, Fisher nevertheless cautiously conceded that if "without undue interference" the law can do anything "to strengthen the moral stamina of the people, it ought to do it ... It is not easy to say whether the community as a whole does not need protection from the private immoralities, whether of homosexuals or of heterosexuals." But, in sum, he doubted that a clear way could be found "by which, without fatal damage to the general principle...