This is in response to Susan Stratton’s letter June 18.

La Rochefoucauld observed that “Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.”

Stratton neglected to refer readers to an organization for sexually active heterosexuals, married or not, using contraception (or who have been surgically sterilized) to cease those practices, which are also condemned by the Catholic Catechism (#2370). The reason is quite simple: There are no such organizations.

My point is that contraceptive heterosexual behavior is the functional equivalent of homosexual behavior, in that both are non-reproductive in nature and intent. But the former has been fully sanctioned by Supreme Court decisions, and any effort to deny these rights to the latter will ultimately be ruled – res ipsa – discriminatory and unlawful by the courts.

Nothing in her letter contradicted thoughts expressed in my letter June 14, though heterosexuals are called to chastity by the Catholic church every bit as much as homosexuals. However, restrictive efforts, such as the CCL referendum, are overwhelmingly Republican in origin and support, and voters have the right not to be misled, as I was for many years, into voting for that party and the “morality” that has caused so much death and destruction by economic injustice at home, and military adventurism abroad.

Paul Corrao, Lewiston