This is not a vote of confidence in, or congratulation for, homosexuality. Those who suffer from this disability carry a great weight of loneliness, guilt, shame and other difficulties. The crucial question we have to answer is whether, in addition to these other disadvantages, they should also be made subject to the full rigor of the criminal law.
With this statement to a weary House of Commons last week, Home Secretary Roy Jenkins came to the heart of the matter in the long argument over whether to reform Britain's archaic criminal statutes against homosexuality. Despite a flurry of last-minute amendments...
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