believing that homosexuality will eventually disappear "because he thought that modern people would create better marriages, which in turn would make better homes, producing children who would naturally follow the right sexual path". He also proposed that homosexual men should be invited into the homes of married heterosexuals in order so that the heterosexuals could "share some of their joy with them". While he believes male homosexuality to be pitied rather than criminalised, Higgins reports that he had little sympathy with lesbians: he considered lesbianism "socially more undesirable than male homosexuality". Between 1951 and 1955, he was Central Lecturer to the Church of England Moral Welfare Council. In 1962 Bailey became a Canon Residentiary (also Prebendary, Chancellor, and Precentor) of Wells Cathedral, publishing works on its history and dying in the city of Wells, Somerset. References 1910 births 1984 deaths English theologians English LGBT rights activists People from Alcester