{"id":1698,"date":"2019-08-01T09:15:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T09:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/?page_id=1698"},"modified":"2019-08-01T09:15:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T09:15:37","slug":"congressman-arthur-l-miller-gives-the-putrid-facts-about-homosexuality-1950","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/26-the-affluent-society\/congressman-arthur-l-miller-gives-the-putrid-facts-about-homosexuality-1950\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Arthur L. Miller Gives \u201cthe Putrid Facts\u201d About Homosexuality\u201d (1950)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>In\n1950, Representative Arthur L. Miller, a Nebraska Republican, offered an amendment\nto a bill requiring background checks for employees of the Economic Cooperation\nAdministration (ECA). Miller proposed to bar homosexuals from working with the ECA.\nAlthough his amendment was rejected, his views of homosexuality revealed much about\npostwar American views.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Chairman, I realize that I am discussing a very\ndelicate subject I cannot lay the bones bare like I could before medical\ncolleagues. I would like to strip the fetid, stinking flesh off of this\nskeleton of homosexuality and tell my colleagues of the House some of the facts\nof nature. I cannot expose all the putrid facts as it would offend the\nsensibilities of some of you. It will be necessary to skirt some of the edges,\nand I use certain Latin terms to describe some of these individuals. Make no\nmistake several thousand, according to police records, are now employed by the\nFederal Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026 Recently the spotlight of publicity has been focused\nnot only upon the State Department but upon the Department of Commerce because\nof homosexuals being employed in these and other departments of Government. Recently\nMr. Peurifoy, of the State Department, said he had allowed 91 individuals in\nthe State Department to resign because they were homosexuals. Now they are like\nbirds of a feather, they flock together. Where did they go?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You must know what a homosexual is. It is amazing that\nin the Capital City of Washington we are plagued with such a large group of\nthose individuals. Washington attracts many lovely folks. The sex crimes in the\ncity are many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Eightieth Congress I was the author of the sex\npervert bill that passed this Congress and is now a law in the District of\nColumbia. It can confine some of these people in St. Elizabeth\u2019s Hospital for\ntreatment. They are the sex perverts. Some of them are more to be pitied than\ncondemned, because in many it is a pathological condition, very much like the\nkleptomaniac who must go out and steal, he has that urge; or like the pyromaniac,\nwho goes to bed and wakes up in the middle of the night with an urge to go out\nand set a fire. He does that. Some of these homosexuals are in that class.\nRemember there were 91 of them dismissed in the State Department. That is a\nsmall percentage of those employed in Government. We learned 2 years ago that\nthere were around 4,000 homosexuals in the District. The Police Department the\nother day said there were between five and six thousand in Washington who are\nactive and that 75 percent were in Government employment. There are places in\nWashington where they gather for the purpose of sex orgies, where they worship\nat the cesspool and flesh pots of iniquity. There is a restaurant downtown\nwhere you will find male prostitutes. They solicit business for other male\ncustomers. They are pimps and undesirable characters. You will find odd words\nin the vocabulary of the homosexual. There are many types such as the necrophilia,\nfetishism, pygmalionism, fellatios, cunnilinguist, sodomatic, pederasty,\nsaphism, sadism, and masochist. Indeed, there are many methods of practices\namong the homosexuals. You will find those people using the words as, \u201cHe is a\nfish. He is a bull-dicker. He is mamma and he is papa, and punk, and pimp.\u201d\nYes; in one of our prominent restaurants rug parties and sex orgies go on. Some\nof those people have been in the State Department, and I understand some of\nthem are now in the other departments. The 91 who were permitted to resign have\ngone some place, and, like birds of a feather, they flock together. Those\npeople like to be known to each other. They have signs used on streetcars and\nin public places to call attention to others of like mind. Their rug and fairy\nparties are elaborate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I offer this amendment, and when the time comes for\nvoting upon it, I hope that no one will object. I sometimes wonder how many of\nthese homosexuals have had a part in shaping our foreign policy. How many have\nbeen in sensitive positions and subject to blackmail. It is a known fact that\nhomosexuality goes back to the Orientals, long before the time of Confucius;\nthat the Russians are strong believers in homosexuality, and that those same\npeople are able to get into the State Department and get somebody in their\nembrace, and once they are in their embrace, fearing blackmail, will make them\ngo to any extent. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I realize that there is some physical danger to anyone\nexposing all of the details and nastiness of homosexuality, because some of\nthese people are dangerous. They will go to any limit. These homosexuals have\nstrong emotions. They are not to be trusted and when blackmail threatens they\nare a dangerous group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army at one time gave these individuals a\ndishonorable discharge and later changed the type of discharge. They are not\nknowingly kept in Army service. They should not be employed in Government. I\ntrust both sides of the aisle will support the amendment.\n\nSource: <em>Congressional Record vol. 96 pt. 4, 81st Congress\n2nd Session, <\/em>March 29-April 24, 1950, 4527-4528. \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1950, Representative Arthur L. Miller, a Nebraska Republican, offered an amendment to a bill requiring background checks for employees of the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA). Miller proposed to bar homosexuals from working with the ECA. Although his amendment was rejected, his views of homosexuality revealed much about postwar American views. Mr. Chairman, I realize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":817,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1698","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1698\/revisions\/1699"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}