Correspondence

...I think not...

...It was a It was my privilege (and that of my When pigs fly poor choice, particularly, if (as you late wife Dottie) to know and count as Thank you for the poem by Alfred stated) Wills, "America's most promidear friend for nearly half a century Nicol ["Guinea Pig" September 22...

...hypocritical...

...view Garry Wills's Papal Sin...

...Times's choice of Richard Rorty to retwo...

...JAMES C.G...

...For me, Ed SALLY KURZDORFER Everybody (Wills included) deserved helped to make sense of that too Alpine, Calif...

...encouragement for reparative thera- book is one-sided in argument, caustic With sadness, this past summer it py: (1) the Courage brochure says it is in tone, and historically incomplete...

...Even a hanging judge needs to put his from...

...At the end of our visit I would evidence in perspective...

...and I mourn for mind-meld along with me...

...at my often-zany recitations of regularly...

...It nent Catholic intellectual writes a this profoundly but also lighthearted- is stunningly well written...

...Given tory of liberty, supported slavery...

...The mean just the expressive eyebrows...

...cating chuckles...

...was there I take particular satisfaction ,Lit with u> on-line...

...I can still see Ed in his living Fathers Lloyd and Harvey are techni- 14 ] was reinforced by his solid rejoinroom handing around the pre-dinner cally correct in saying that Courage der ["The Reviewer Replies," Septemgoodies, but also droll servings of does not "force" homosexual individ- ber 8] to Wills's dismissive comments ideas amid easy, modest, self-depre- uals into sexual-orientation change on the review itself...

...But a hostile critic, using Although deafer than duct tape, he those who really want it, reparative Wills's approach, might question would smile unforgettably (indulgent- growth is a possibility and happens Acton's integrity by quoting from a ly...

...scathing indictment of his church...

...ly Christian gentleman...

...was my further rare privilege to visit wrong to say that "sexual-orientation Like Wills, Lord Acton is one of my Ed fairly often at the nursing home...

...2) the brochure also letter he sent to Robert E. Lee on Noverse delightful Jabberwocky, pre- claims that one can leave behind not vember 4, 1866...

...What I never did while the family Such a judgment would lack balance...

...But For the record, I read Wills's Papal more with a circumflex than most of the group's whole approach evidences Sin and it is a powerful work, but its us can with paragraphs...

...Ed Skillin could do [Correspondence, September 81...

...It didn't seem to success of reparative therapy...

...After praising Lee, his scient Ulysses, apropos Burns's apolo- only the "homosexual lifestyle" but cause, and the Confederate Constitugy to a field mouse...

...example to encourage at least the toe- ers prominent representatives from Does this mean that Acton, whose hold on speech that singing can help the "ex-gay" movement touting the great unfinished work was to be a histhe dysphasic regain...

...But as we then "the very feelings of same-sex attrac- tion, Acton wrote: "Therefore I prayed the signature decade that was tion...

...If help...

...My friend Ed Ed Skillin old friend, rest-as I'm What did Acton mean...

...anyone not want to do all that is hu- consistent...

...rarely cited tag end of Thomas's defi- The aptness of Commonweal's choice nition of our species, Animal rationale Yet more on Courage of Eamon Duffy as the reviewer [July et risibile...

...that wee but towering figure of our JOHN GALLAGHER time-and, as far as I'm concerned, Mount Rainier, Md...

...CORRESPONDENCE with it make my baptismal Christian manly possible to "grow into" one's sign of the cross on the forehead of "true" heterosexual identity...

...the stake which was lost at Richmond time I saw him after his stroke, I sang The program for Courage's annual more deeply than I rejoice over that "Yankee Doodle" to him, hoping by gathering invariably features as speak- which was saved at Waterloo...

...While conversion therapy is an deemed that you were fighting the my main reason for showing up, he "option" for all, "teens and young battles of our liberty, our progress, would lower his eyes and, I hope, adults are especially invited to consult and our civilization...

...But Ed seemed to enjoy the try "arrested sexual development," would have continued...

...Jane [Skillin] and their children, Harvey's claim that homosexual orien- the Confederacy had survived, slavpolite as ever, must have thought me tation is "not the work of God" but ery, though diminished by war, would crazy...

...for all time...

...presume to take my layman's thumb i GEORGE L. MAHONEY and, in no sense as cleric manque, cc~inmonwe.,i-su ,;cn[,c°~~~e~rc~trPacom Katonah, N.Y Commonweal 4 October 20, 2000...

...The first competent therapists...

...better...

...And I don't a strong endorsement of and personal merits are marred by its polemics...

...With everybody writing about Ed sure you do-in the peace and joy of Commonweal [Et cetera, July 14] was Skillin [September 8], I think I owe it Christ...

...change is never possible" and "for "heroes...

...CONNIFF correct in questioning the New York to his memory to add a footnote or Upper Montclair, N.J...

...Was Acton being inat brightening his day...