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for me to find a single instance where a female had
been prosecuted or even accused of immorality with
another woman.

Homosexuals have iseized upon this one-sided ap-
plication of laws governing personal conduct as
discriminatory. They feel, of course, that there
should be no laws governing homosexual relations
- between consenting adults. But as long as they exist
they complain that women are equally guilty under
existing statutes and should, therefore, be treated as
offenders.

No thinking person can rationalize laws govern-
ing sexual behavior between consenting adults in the
light of present day society. Political leaders, church-
men, sociologists, medical authorities, even the
policemen who are obliged to make arrests are in
unanimous agreement that they should be revised.
Besides being archaic they are unenforceable.

Holdovers from the puritanical thinking of more
than a century ago, the laws are not as biased as
nany homosexuals believe. They would know dif-
ferently if they took the time to read the penal code
statutes on sexual contact from start to finish. They
might not be surprised to find adultery a crime, but
many states also prescribe, in clinical detail, what
the law considers criminal consummation of the