[Homosexuality is] neither a vice nor a crime, indeed, not even an illness, but instead a variation, one of the borderline cases that occur frequently in nature. Your son suffers not from his condition, but rather from the false judgment of it. This is the legal and social condemnation of his feelings, along with widespread misconceptions about their expression ... The persecution of homosexuals belongs in the same sad chapter of human history in which persecution of heretics and witches is inscribed ... [such laws] are a violation of the fundamental rights of the individual.
