The last straw

His wife was heavily pregnant and easily nauseated and he did not wish to stink up the house?

Maybe he was looking for men - that's why the policeman was able to entice and entrap him - but he did not solicit sex. An old 50s song called "Standin' on the Corner, Watchin' All the Gils Go By" has the lyric:

Brother you can't go to jail for what you're thinking
Or for that wolf look in your eye

The majority of the original cast was still in episode 3. Only Chummy, Jenny, Sister E and Cynthia/Sister MC were missing from that episode. 4 out of 11 original cast members is not "most".

Depends on your definition of 'left the show' then. You must have a tough time viewing anything if you consider an absence of one or two episodes as having left a show.

If the OP had stopped with the unrealistic reaction to homosexuality in that era I would agree with you but she didn't. She went on to complain about the show trying to make it look like 25% of people are gay. This insistence that the media is always trying to exaggerate the numbers is a typical complaint of those who do not want to accept the reality that far more people are gay than they want to admit. In my book that makes them homophobic.

"Nothing is more ill bred than trying to steal the affections of someone else's dog."

Rather than referring to the showing of lesbianism, homosexuality and other 'taboos' of the time more openly as a Liberal oneworldism, I would say it shows the whole worldism, the realism of the day which was previously not often shown on television.

Society, I hope, has in general moved on enough to accept that gays existed in the 1950's and much, much earlier (since mankind began I suspect), and that they existed in most occupations too. It is very sad to see that some people still cannot cope with this truth being displayed.

And why not show how difficult it was to be openly gay at that time? It was illegal, sadly, so it would've been extremely difficult to live the life openly and without fear of repercussions.

I have yet to read Jennifer Worth's memoirs, but I scanned a few pages on Amazon. The series seems to be drawn quite closely from Worth's books, right down to some quotes. I find it hard to believe the writers and producers would take such modern liberties about sexuality, while staying so true to the text otherwise. Who are you to say what Worth and her comrades experienced and observed? After many years of studying literature, history and the arts, I've found there are exceptions to every rule. I've also found people are not monolithic. No one ever said it was easy for homosexuals or other people doing things thought beyond the pale; yet, that does not mean some people did not look with empathy upon those people. Think about it: Anglican nuns and nurse/midwives working in a neighborhood racked by ignorance and poverty were bound to run across all manner of odd ducks; they would likely have expected or at the very least learned to accept that some people were troubled, different, disturbed, etc. If they had been shocked or disapproving of too many things, then they never would have survived in their calling(s).

I grew up in a mid-Atlantic city of about 120,000 in the 60s and 70s; we had more than our fair share of racists, sexists and other narrow-minded twits, including a cranky old KKK member, who sometimes burned crosses on people's lawns if he thought they were a threat. Until about 1970, black, mixed race, Latinos and Hispanics could not purchase homes or rent apartments in the city's most desired residential zone, which was delineated by a certain street. When my friends of mixed race became the first people to cross that imaginary line, the KKK crank burned a cross upon their lawn. Many of us felt horrified and embarrassed by his actions. For every bigot, we had at least three people who believed in equality. I daresay the same held true in Poplar and the rest of the UK.

I doubt any of us cares if the OP wants to hold a different opinion; however, we also have a right not to accept his/her jaundiced view of the world depicted in Call the Midwife. My best advice: don't let the door hit you on the way out of Poplar, etc. The rest of us will keep enjoying this marvelous series.

Put puppy mills out of business: never buy dogs from pet shops! 

And she suffered tragic consequences - so they'll see it as she paid her penance for what she did.

Then did a similar storyline in Season two. Just watched it last night on Netflix. The mom already had 8 children and was desperate to be rid of the 9th that she was carrying.

"Vulgarity is no substitute for wit".

What a crock!!

It's a kind of group mental illness you guys suffer from isn't it? It would be fine if you kept it to yourselves. That would be Ok but you all have such a propensity to have to ram your thoughts down everyone else's throats. Live your life how you want and stop trying to tell everyone else how to live. It's great that you are a Christian but what the heck makes you think it is OK to tell someone else what they can and can't do with their own body?

At least humanists have the decency to take responsibility for whatever they do and think rather than calling on "The Man in the Sky". It is, without a doubt, that the world would be a much better place if there were much less religion in it. Fewer Christians, Fewer Muslims, fewer ....insert "man in the sky" of choice.

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