Posted on 08/27/2010 2:12:14 PM PDT by markomalley
Now here’s a good idea. (Heavy sarcasm)
A high profile British homosexual activist wants the age of sexual consent lowered to 14, on the basis that currently underage sex “is mostly consenting, safe and fun”.
Peter Tatchell plugged for this change in America in one of a series of articles on “dangerous ideas” on the website Big Think recently.
Dangerous, certainly, but also just a little bit surprising in view of this year of paedophilia scandals and his campaign against Pope Benedict’s visit to the UK — one of the reasons being the Pope’s alleged “cover up” of clerical sexual abuse of children?
By a tortured logic Tatchell claims that a lower age of consent is “the best way” to protect young people from abuse. His arguments boil down to three:
* The kids are doing it anyway.
* Current laws criminalise teenagers.
* Young people under 16 have the right to decide when to have sex.
Actually, in making the last claim Tatchell puts no lower age limit. This fits with his recipe for protecting kids from peer pressure and paedophiles: “giving them frank, high quality sex and relationship education from an early age”. As we have noted elsewhere on this site recently, for some people that means nursery school.
In the end, his case seems to rest on a view of sex as the driving force and highest achievement of human life — from “an early age”. It is a view that some adults may find convenient but which common sense rejects as contrary to the good of children and society. Thus the editors of Big Think conclude:
Why We Should Reject This
Of course there will always be underage people who have sex, but that doesn’t mean the law should condone it. Sex is a very complicated part of human behavior that is too nuanced for young people to understand. In fact, studies have shown that people, especially girls, who have sex at a young age often regret it. One study in New Zealand found that 70% of girls who had sex before the age of 16 wished they hadn’t done so. In a column for Telegraph, writer David Lindsay argues, “sex is for people who can cope with the consequences, physical and otherwise. In a word, adults.”
Y’all got to see this one...
Sickening
But these are rights....the same rights that say abortion is okay. Killing is not a right EWXCEPT in self defense.
No. It protects their abuser from the law.
But of course faggots are NOT pedophiles!! They just want equal rights for 6 year olds to be raped!!
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, yes the USSC, wrote a paper advocating lowering the age of consent to 11 years old, ELEVEN years old.
I’m reading a book right now on the abuse of male children forced into prostitution sometimes at age 4 during the Victorian age.
It was a popular sexual practice with the nobility and the elite of the time. The boys were kept on barges, starved, chained and beaten if they refused to cooperate.
This witch would turn back the laws. There is enough of a problem with Asia and child prostition along with the West’s struggle keeping the perverts in check without turning back the clock.
more than 80% of those abused by catholic priests were teenage boys. Gee, I wonder what type of man would have attraction to these young men.
If wag doesn’t ping it out, I will later. Gotta run and will be back.
It’s a veritable tsunami of evil lately.
Please see this post about Mr. Tatchell and his being invited to speak at Greenbelt “The U.K’s largest Christian
festival.”
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/?/sf/page/26502
gays are as predictable as the sun rising, everyone with half a brain knew they would go after the children.
Oh for crying in a bucket! They just can’t quit can they? Their entire lives revolves around sex. They need to get a life.
Throughout history men into same sex sodomy have always been known for hunting young boys. They used to be called pederasts for that very reason.
Before or after going on the court? How appalling.
Of course the condemnation always falls upon the Catholicism of the perp and not the pederasty itself.
Would a gay priest rape a young teenage boy? Some have.
Would a straight priest rape a young teenage boy? NEVER
Well, heck, people are going to beat one another over the head with fire axes anyway, so we just as well might make it legal.
Now they’re called “chicken hawks”.
“‘Lower age of consent’ says gay rights campaigner”
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Coming soon from the dieseased perverts:
“remove genus and species barriers.”
“‘Lower age of consent’ says gay rights campaigner”
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Coming soon from the dieseased perverts:
“remove genus and species barriers.”
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