Carl Sagan rescues Dr. Laura

       Dr. Laura is being accused of practicing ideological

    witchcraft in teaching that homosexuality is a MISTAKE

    of nature.  Biologists understand that Mother Nature is

    always making mistakes. Often enough the Great Designer

    seems asleep on the job . Even our many allergies are just

    a cruel mistake, the body mindlessly attacking itself.

           I was amused to read in Carl Sagan's biography

    ( William Poundstone, page 88 ) that he feared that his

    son, Dorion - ironically named in homage to Oscar

    Wilde - might be led astray by a gay companion :

        " A worried Carl sat down and lectured him that

    homosexuality was not the way the species propagates

    itself. "

            Indeed natural selection was a better argument

    for Carl here than quotes from Leviticus.

            Sagan was not at all hostile to gays. He had

    a " long and productive " collaboration with Jim Pollack,

    a fellow scientist who studied the Venus greenhouse effect.

             Obviously homosexuality is not fatal to human

    society because it is an " aberration " . But homosexuals

    as individuals can make great contributions to human

    culture - and indirectly  contribute to the survival

    of the species.

           In our overpopulated world I see them as a

    blessing !