John Singleton with Bob HowardRip Van Australia (Stanmore: Cassell Australia, 1977), p. 121, under the heading “Homosexuality”.

Homosexuality is a victimless activity. It should not be a crime. How can anything without a victim be a crime?

People have a right to engage in any form of voluntary sexual activity, and the sooner this right is recognised, both in law and in community attitudes, the better it will be for all of us — homosexual or not. One group of people in society has no more right to prevent another group from being homosexual than the homosexual group has to force everyone else to be homosexual. The fact that homosexuals have been persecuted in many societies is yet another example of the abuse of the majority rule, democratic process.

People who don’t fancy homosexuality, don’t have to engage in it. You don’t have to mix with, work with, trade with, play with or in any way associate with homosexuals. That is your right. But you have no right to persecute them or force them to cease “being” homosexuals. The idea is absurd anyway. Nature cannot be changed to fit into an equation. If a person is a homosexual, he/she is homosexual. How can any law hope to change that?